News from May 2020
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - U.S. Attorney Bill Powell of the Northern District of West Virginia today announced that the Harrison County received $58,008 in Department of Justice grants to respond to the public safety challenges posed by the outbreak of COVID-19.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan announced today that 17 defendants were arrested and charged in two criminal complaints for their roles in a large and long standing illegal narcotics ring operating in Western...
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of a Firearm by Prohibited Person was sentenced on April 27, 2020, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2020
News Release: FBI Media Alert: Shiprock Man Charged with Assault on Federal Officer.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, woman convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced by Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Judge.
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2020
News Release: Vicksburg, MS: Archeologists from the National Park Service’s Southeast Archeological Center (SEAC) are recovering the remains of Civil War soldiers from the collapsed section of the Vicksburg National Cemetery. The remains will be removed from graves that were part of the collapse or that are in an unstable area. Approximately 15 burials will be affected.
By USDA Newswire | May 5, 2020
Release: Washington, DC, May 5, 2020 - Today, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced a major expansion of Meals to You, USDA’s innovative partnership with the Baylor University Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty, McLane Global, and PepsiCo, to feed low-income kids in rural areas. The initiative will now serve nearly five million meals per week to rural children impacted by COVID-19-related school closures - five times its original goal.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Elijah Richter, 28, of Camino, was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller to 10 years in prison for distribution of a controlled substance known as n25i-nBOME that caused a death, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2020
News Release: New Haven - John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that CONNECTICUT COUNSELING CENTERS (“CCC") has entered into a civil settlement agreement with the federal and state governments in which it will pay more than $295,000 to resolve allegations that it caused overpayments to be paid by the Connecticut Medicaid Program.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams announced today that Nelson Scott Gillis, 66, of Lake Oswego, Oregon, a former senior executive and chief financial officer of Aequitas Management, LLC, and several other Aequitas-owned entities, has been indicted for conspiring to submit false statements to a federally insured creditor in order to obtain $4.2 million for Aequitas as it struggled to survive in January 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - As part of a national effort directed by U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Timothy J. Shea is asking anyone who has witnessed or experienced sexual harassment by a landlord, property manager, maintenance worker, or anyone with control over housing to report that conduct to the Department of Justice.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine was sentenced on May 4, 2020, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2020
News Release: OMAHA, Neb. - Between March 2015 and September 2018, the DEA Omaha Division office in cooperation with the Douglas and Sarpy County Sheriff’s Offices, Omaha Police Department and U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Nebraska, conducted a complex, multi-jurisdictional investigation into a methamphetamine...
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2020
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A HOPE Clinic manager was sentenced to 20 months in federal prison for a gun crime, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Joshua Radcliffe, 36, of Shady Springs, previously pled guilty to conspiring with Mark T. Radcliffe to using and carrying firearms in relation to maintaining drug-involved premises.
By Commerce Newswire | May 5, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.3 million grant to the Economic Development Authority of Floyd County, Virginia, to construct the Floyd Growth Center Building. The EDA grant, to be matched with $576,385 in local investment, is expected to spur $5 million in private investment.
By Homeland Newswire | May 5, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Security agencies in the United Kingdom and United States have exposed malicious cyber campaigns targeting organizations involved in the coronavirus response - and given tips to stay safe.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2020
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Box Elder woman who admitted stabbing a man in the upper chest with a butterfly knife on the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation last year was sentenced today to 18 months in prison and two years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By USDA Newswire | May 5, 2020
News Release: Washington - As part of its commitment to ensuring fair and competitive markets for the livestock, meat and poultry industries, on March 30, 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reached a consent decision with Christopher J. Bartels (Bartels) and Bartels Packing Inc. (Bartels Packing) of Eugene, Ore., for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By USDA Newswire | May 5, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson released the following statement today on the retirement of CFTC Commissioner Brian Quintenz.
