News from May 2020
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2020
News Release: Charleston, WV - Deputy U.S. Marshal James “Jimmy" Habib, 45, died off duty due to natural causes at his residence in Fayetteville, West Virginia, on May 21, 2020.
By Commerce Newswire | May 22, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, and Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security, introduced the Inspector General Independence Act to protect Inspectors General across the Executive Branch from being fired as a result of political retaliation.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Nogales, Arizona man pled guilty in federal court today to his role in a conspiracy to transport large amounts of fentanyl through Kansas City, Missouri en route to New York City aboard passenger buses, in a case investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration St. Louis Division and the Kansas City, Missouri Police Department.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2020
News Release: MACON, Ga. - On Memorial Day, Charlie Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, will observe the National Moment of Remembrance at 3 p.m. and invites all citizens to pause from their activities and join with him to pay tribute to our fallen heroes with a minute of silence.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - U.S. Attorney Bill Powell of the Northern District of West Virginia today announced that the city of Morgantown received $44,250 in Department of Justice grants to respond to the public safety challenges posed by the outbreak of COVID-19.
By DOL Newswire | May 22, 2020
News Release: NORTH MIAMI, FL - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited two contractors for failing to protect employees from fall hazards at a construction worksite in North Miami, Florida. Prestige Estates Property Management LLC of North Miami and Jesus Balbuena of Miami, Florida, face $44,146 in penalties.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2020
News Release: Software Engineer Charged in Washington with COVID-Relief Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2020
News Release: Scams cost elders more than $184 million a year.
By Homeland Newswire | May 22, 2020
News Release: MISSOULA, MONT. - A California woman who admitted bringing methamphetamine to the Flathead Valley for distribution after officers found more than 10 pounds of the drug in her vehicle was sentenced today to six years in prison and five years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Rocky Mount man was sentenced today to 132 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute heroin and cocaine base (crack).
By US DOT Newswire | May 22, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C.-The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes a $67,050 civil penalty against Wing Over L.A., of Van Nuys, Calif., for allegedly violating drug and alcohol testing regulations.
By Interior Newswire | May 22, 2020
News Release: BRECKSVILLE, Ohio - On May 21, contractors began the process of removing the Brecksville Dam from the Cuyahoga River. The National Park Service (NPS) has collaborated for over a decade with the Ohio EPA, US Army Corps of Engineers, Ohio Department of Natural Resources and Friends of the Crooked River...
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2020
News Release: Concord, NH - This morning, the United States Marshals Service is pleased to report that they have successfully tracked down and arrested a Litchfield (NH) Police Department fugitive in New York. Devin Leonard, 23 years-of-age, was arrested without incident by members of the U.S. Marshals - New York/New...
By Interior Newswire | May 22, 2020
News Release: Pinnacles National Park is beginning to increase recreational access to foot and bicycle traffic.
By USDA Newswire | May 22, 2020
Release: Washington, DC, May 22, 2020 - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced Arkansas has been approved to operate Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT), a new program authorized by the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), signed by President Trump, which provides assistance to families of children eligible for free or reduced-price meals dealing with school closures.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Prohibited Person in Possession of a Firearm and Possession of an Unregistered Firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2020
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return of an eight-count indictment charging Mawdo Malick Sallah (33, Clearwater, FL) and Kirk Douglas Johnson (34, Anderson, SC) with one count of conspiring to commit arson, three counts of arson, two counts of using a fire or explosive ...
By State Newswire | May 22, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By State Newswire | May 22, 2020
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), today released the following statement after the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, pursuant to Executive Order 13851, designated two senior members of the Nicaraguan regime:
By Interior Newswire | May 22, 2020
News Release: Gaffney, SC - This Memorial Day, Cowpens National Battlefield will join thirty National Park Service units across 12 states and the District of Columbia in hosting a virtual commemoration saluting America’s fallen soldiers.
