News from October 2020
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX) released the following statement after Russian ransomware attacks targeted hundreds of U.S. hospitals.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return of a superseding indictment charging Casey David Crowther (35, North Fort Myers) with two counts of bank fraud, two counts of making a false statement to a lending institution, and three counts of illegal monetary transactions.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Nicholous Phillips, 41, of Albuquerque, pleaded guilty in federal court on Oct. 27 to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: DENVER, Colo., Oct. 29, 2020 - The Trump Administration today announced that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $6 million to provide broadband service in unserved and underserved rural areas in Colorado. This investment is part of the $550 million Congress allocated to the second round of the ReConnect Program.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX) sent a letter to National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Lemuel Escobar (37, Clermont), Humberto Ramirez (39, Mascotte), Alberto Obaya (48, Plant City), and Vidal Estrada (68, Fort Lauderdale) have each pleaded guilty to charges involving cargo theft of an interstate shipment of goods, and receipt and possession of stolen goods. Each faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Morgan Herrera, age 29, of Robesonia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Oct. 29, 2020 to six months’ imprisonment followed by two years of supervised release (which includes six months of home detention) by U.S. District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo, for embezzling over $80,000 from S&T Bank. Judge Rambo also ordered Herrera to pay $80,011 in restitution.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX) released the following statement on the Trump administration’s final rule on price transparency.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the 2020 recipients of the second annual U.S. Attorney’s Office “Excellence in the Pursuit of Justice" Awards. Sixty-seven law enforcement officials and community leaders are being honored for their outstanding work and selfless contributions in the pursuit of truth and justice.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
Release: EPIC Program to Support Hardware Development and Testing in Regional Innovation Clusters
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. sentenced Juan Miranda-Funes today to 120 months in federal prison. There is no parole in the federal system. Miranda-Funes will serve a 5-year term of supervised release following his release from the Bureau of Prisons.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX) released the following statement after Russian ransomware attacks targeted hundreds of U.S. hospitals.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - As part of an ongoing concerted effort by local, state and federal law enforcement to address the significant uptick in violent crime in the City of Fresno, a federal grand jury returned indictments today against four Fresno County residents with various firearms and drug offenses, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Methuen man was arrested and charged yesterday in connection with robbing five banks in Middlesex County in August and September 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut; Christopher Algieri, Special Agent in Charge of the Department of Veteran Affairs, Office of the Inspector General, Northeast Field Office; and James M. Noble, Special Agent in Charge, Coast Guard Investigative Service, Northeast...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Carlos Matchett, 30, of Atlantic City, NJ; Khalif Miller, 25, of Philadelphia, PA; and Anthony David Ale Smith, 29, of Philadelphia, PA, have been charged by Indictment for the arson of a Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) vehicle, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: Has Multiple Prior Convictions for Burglary and Assault.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - Authorities have arrested a 55-year-old Houston man on charges of operating a scheme to defraud investors in oil and gas transactions, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned two indictments today separately charging Cynthia Seeley, 66, of Magalia, and Kristen Canapary, 53, of Butte County, with making false statements in an application for FEMA benefits in connection with the 2018 Camp Fire, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District, announced that United States District Judge Joseph P. Stadtmueller has sentenced Latoya N. Joseph, 42, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to eight months’ imprisonment and six months’ home confinement for the crime of tax evasion.
