News from May 2020
By State Newswire | May 29, 2020
News Release: Washington-Today, Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs; Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform; and Senator Bob Menendez, Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations announced an expansion of the committees’ probe into the firing of State Department Inspector General Steve Linick.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2020
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging a Norfolk man with submitting fraudulent disaster-related loan applications in connection with the COVID-19 outbreak that resulted in the disbursement of over $190,000 in proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2020
News Release: St. Louis, Missouri - Keith D. Thomas, 29, of St. Louis, and Leonard Thomas, 35, of St. Louis, were each indicted by a federal grand jury with being a felon in possession of a firearm. Both were previously charged by federal complaint and appeared in court on May 21, 2020 for their initial appearance in front of U.S. Magistrate Judge David D. Noce.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2020
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A North Carolina woman was sentenced today to four years in prison for committing a $506,000 fraud on the Virginia Medicaid program.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jonathan Cruz-Carmona, a/k/a Tapon, a/k/a Eneno, 29, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to murder with a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking crime. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOE Newswire | May 29, 2020
News Release: Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr., of New Jersey delivered the Weekly Democratic Address. In this week’s address, the Chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee discussed the Trump Administration’s continued coronavirus testing failures and the strong testing strategy in The Heroes Act. Video and audio of the Weekly Democratic Address can be downloaded here.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2020
News Release: Rodney Allen, 43, of Beaufort, South Carolina, pleaded guilty today in federal court in Jacksonville, Florida, to one count of intimidating and interfering with the employees of an abortion clinic by making a bomb threat and one count of making false statements to a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A New Jersey man with a prior felony conviction was charged today with unlawfully possessing dozens of firearms, including handguns, rifles, a silencer, ammunition, and high-capacity magazines, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2020
News Release: A healthcare executive at the center of two massive healthcare fraud scams has been sentenced to more than six years in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By Commerce Newswire | May 29, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau, in coordination with federal, state and local health officials, will begin a phased restart of some 2020 Census field operations in seven additional states and the District of Columbia the week of June 1. With these additions, field activities have restarted in at least one office in every state and 98.2% of the nation’s update leave workload will have resumed. As of May 27, half of the update leave workload was completed.
By DOL Newswire | May 29, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on President Trump’s veto of the bipartisan Congressional Review Act (CRA) overturning the Department of Education’s 2019 Borrower...
By Homeland Newswire | May 29, 2020
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on President Trump’s tweets last night that were flagged by Twitter for glorifying violence.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2020
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Ross Anthony Farca was ordered to pay $17,832 in restitution for making false statements to a government agency, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Jon S. Tigar, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A grand jury today indicted two men, one from Ocean County, New Jersey, and the other from Utah, with carrying out a fraudulent scheme to obtain credit cards in the names of third parties, make purchases on the cards to generate rewards points, monetize the points, and cancel the purchases.
By Commerce Newswire | May 29, 2020
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement in reaction to Donald Trump’s new campaign ad, which falsely takes credit for supercharging unemployment benefits...
By Interior Newswire | May 29, 2020
News Release: Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, Montezuma Castle and Tuzigoot National Monuments are increasing recreational access to trails and outdoor spaces. The National Park Service (NPS) is working service wide with federal, state, and local public health authorities to closely monitor the COVID-19 pandemic and using a phased approach to increase access on a park-by-park basis.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Francis Woody, 60, of Ojo Encino, N.M., was sentenced on May 27 in federal court in Albuquerque to life in prison for child sexual abuse in Indian Country.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2020
News Release: Five-month investigation alleges distribution of fentanyl-tainted counterfeit opioid pills with distinctive M-30 markings.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2020
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal grand jury yesterday indicted a Birmingham man in connection to an armed robbery of a Shell gas station, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2020
News Release: St. Louis, Missouri - Keith D. Thomas, 29, of St. Louis, and Leonard Thomas, 35, of St. Louis, were each indicted by a federal grand jury with being a felon in possession of a firearm. Both were previously charged by federal complaint and appeared in court on May 21, 2020 for their initial appearance in front of U.S. Magistrate Judge David D. Noce.
