News from June 2020
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
Release: Bangladesh. Overview: Bangladesh experienced a small increase in terrorist activity in 2019. ISIS claimed six IED attacks, five of which were directed at Bangladesh police. ISIS’s At-Tamkin media outlet released a Bangla-language propaganda video outlining its campaign against the Bangladesh government...
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
Release: Nigeria. Overview: BH and ISIS-WA continued attacks against government and security forces and civilians in the Northeast, resulting in deaths, injuries, abductions, and the capture and destruction of property. ISIS-WA generally focused on attacking government and security forces and applying increased...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: Defendant Also Ordered To Resign From Bar Association.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss - Cheri Jessica Cox, 39, of Petal, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett to 180 months in prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release and a $5,000 fine, for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today released the following opening statement at the legislative hearing to review S. 3894, the Growing Climate Solutions Act of 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JACKIE HERNANDEZ, 42, of Norwich, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for her role in a southeastern Connecticut drug trafficking ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA: Augusta University Medical Center, Inc. (AUMC) has agreed to a settlement with the United States, the State of Georgia, and the State of South Carolina to resolve allegations that AUMC submitted false claims to several government-funded healthcare programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Monmouth County, New Jersey, man was charged today with tax evasion, corrupt interference with the administration of the Internal Revenue laws, and failure to file federal tax returns, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: PA State Police will receive $1.5 Million for Commonwealth-wide Efforts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Deshon Nettles, 28, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of possessing with intent to distribute, and distributing, 10 grams or more of butyryl fentanyl and fentanyl, was sentenced to serve 60 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Larell Watkins, a/k/a 90-Ls, of Buffalo, New York who was convicted of racketeering conspiracy and conspiracy to distribute marijuana, was sentenced to serve 19 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky.- An Independence, Kentucky, man, Michael Clark, 50, was sentenced in on Tuesday to 192 months in federal prison, by U.S. District Judge David Bunning, following conviction of distributing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: PIKEVILLE, Ky. - A Pikeville man, Richard Starghill, 43, was sentenced on Tuesday, to 240 months in federal prison, by U.S. District Court Judge Karen Caldwell, following his convictions for being a felon in possession of a pistol and sawed-off shotgun.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Gage Allen Davis, 24, has been sentenced to 96 months in federal prison and Billy Ray Lewis, 39, to 72 months in federal prison for their roles in a methamphetamine trafficking ring in central Ohio in 2019. Both men are from Columbus.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C., June 23, 2020) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced today that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Farmers to Families Food Box Program has distributed more than 20 million food boxes in support of American farmers and families affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: USDA is expanding access to innovative online food purchase program (Washington, D.C., June 23, 2020) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced approval of a request from Kansas to provide online purchasing of food to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) households. This ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: The Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice issued the 2020 edition of its annual Newsletter Update today. The Newsletter highlights the Antitrust Division’s recent activities, including responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, successes on civil and criminal enforcement, international cooperation, and competition advocacy. The Newsletter also includes a message from Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: The Department of Justice‘s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) today announced nearly $42 million in funding to support state-level law enforcement agencies in combating the illegal manufacturing and distribution of methamphetamine, heroin, fentanyl, carfentanil, and prescription opioids.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: A Texas man was charged in an indictment unsealed today with wire fraud, false statements to a financial institution and money laundering for his alleged participation in a scheme to file fraudulent loan applications seeking more than $3 million in forgivable Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans guaranteed ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: On June 23, 2020, a federal court in Miami, Florida issued an order holding Vilbrun Simon and Simon Accounting & Tax, LLC in contempt for violating a permanent injunction that bars them from preparing or filing federal tax returns for others.
