News from May 2020
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A New Hampshire man was charged today in federal court in Boston in connection with engaging in a complex scheme to conduct fraudulent financial transactions using stolen account information and other personally identifiable information (PII) of victims in Massachusetts and elsewhere throughout the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - A federal grand jury has indicted a registered sex offender, Rodney Allen Patterson, 54, for new federal child exploitation charges. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee announced the indictment today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Pennsylvania man will plead guilty today in connection with using fraud and bribery to facilitate his child’s acceptance to Georgetown University.
By USDA Newswire | May 26, 2020
Release: Washington - The export sales announcement issued this morning by the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS-ESR-044-20) incorrectly reported sales of 264,000 metric tons of soybeans to China. The corrected announcement is as follows.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Philadelphia man was sentenced today to 33 months in prison for his role in a drug distribution conspiracy connected to the seizure of fentanyl and heroin at a New Jersey rest stop last year, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: NEW YORK - Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Peter C. Fitzhugh, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Office of Homeland Security Investigations, Philip R. Bartlett, Inspector in Charge of the New York Office of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Morris County, New Jersey, man today admitted maliciously calling in a bomb threat to a religious institution, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOL Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has launched a webpage with coronavirus-related guidance for construction employers and workers. The guidance includes recommended actions to reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus.
By US DOT Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), and Chair of the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) announced the Subcommittee will hold a hearing titled, “The Status of the U.S. Maritime Supply Chain During the COVID-19 Pandemic." Members and witnesses will appear by videoconference.
By Interior Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: Liberty Island, NY - The National Park Service (NPS) announced today that a new virtual tour of the Statue of Liberty is now available for viewing by the public. It is a visually stunning exploration of the Statue of Liberty’s exterior and interior spaces composed from state of the art 360° digital photogrammetry.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott 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 26, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Missouri, woman pleaded guilty in federal court today to her role in a conspiracy that distributed at least 4.5 kilograms of pure methamphetamine in Laclede County, Missouri.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Hudson County, New Jersey, man today admitted his role in two bank robberies and one attempted bank robbery and to impersonating a federal agent, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOE Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) selected two projects to receive approximately $10 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development projects under funding opportunity announcement (FOA) DE-FOA-0002192, Extreme Environment Materials for Power Generation.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: Statement Regarding Death of Individual in South Minneapolis.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: NEW HAVEN, Conn. - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Gabrield Romero Escalera-Romero, 29, a citizen of Honduras, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill to 60 months of imprisonment for trafficking cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: Officers Found More Than Three Kilos of Meth At His Springfield Residence.
By Commerce Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1 million grant to the Rockingham Economic Development Corporation (REDC) of Raymond, New Hampshire, to establish a Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) to provide...
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging an Alexandria man with conspiring and attempting to provide material support to al-Shabaab, a terrorist organization operating in Somalia.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Shameris Washington, a/k/a GB, and Larry Watkins III, who were convicted of racketeering conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine, were sentenced to serve 135 months and 54 months in prison respectively by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
