News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO -A Chicago-area resident who owns a Pakistani technology company has been indicted for allegedly illegally exporting computer equipment from the United States to a nuclear research agency of the Pakistani government.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Parkersburg man was sentenced to federal prison today as a result of federal charges related to the trafficking of methamphetamine and the possession of a firearm while involved in drug trafficking, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. James Daniel Canty, 60, was sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that JARRELL FOX, (“FOX") age 29, of New Orleans, was charged on Sept. 18, 2020 in an eight-count Indictment with four Hobbs Act Robberies, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1951(a), three counts of Brandishing a Firearm...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 21, 2020
News Release: NEWARK - On Sept. 14, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a Texas woman admitted to her role in a conspiracy to distribute heroin, following an investigation by HSI Cherry Hill, ...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 21, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) released the following joint statement today after the House of Representatives passed five suicide prevention bills...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 21, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) released the following joint statement today in response to the Department of Defense submitting a Request for Information (RFI) on the creation of a government-owned and operated 5G network...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 21, 2020
Release: DETROIT - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers detected and prevented two handguns making their way in the passenger cabin of airplanes over the weekend at Detroit Metropolitan Airport (DTW).
By DOE Newswire | Sep 21, 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 after the House passed ten bipartisan health bills advanced by the Energy and Commerce Committee.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 21, 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 after the House passed ten bipartisan health bills advanced by the Energy and Commerce Committee.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 21, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) released the following joint statement today after the House of Representatives passed five suicide prevention bills...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Richard Lang, age 43, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, pleaded guilty in federal court today in Omaha, Nebraska, to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Lang faces up to five years in prison. Senior United States District Judge Laurie Smith Camp will sentence Lang following the completion of a presentence report. Daniel Hendrickson, one of Lang’s co-conspirators, pleaded guilty to the same crime on July 28, 2020, in federal court in Omaha.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 21, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) released the following statements after Congressional leaders unveiled a Continuing Resolution (CR) for FY2021, which includes a one-year extension of current surface transportation authorization funding levels...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 21, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) released the following joint statement today in response to the Department of Defense submitting a Request for Information (RFI) on the creation of a government-owned and operated 5G network...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Michael Mayhew, age 55, of Rome, New York, appeared today in federal court before United States Magistrate Judge Therese Wiley Dancks on charges that he sexually exploited a child. The defendant was ordered detained without bail pending a hearing on Sept. 24, 2020.The announcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2020
News Release: A criminal complaint was unsealed earlier today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Yinghang Yang with securities fraud for his role in an insider trading scheme. Yang and a co-conspirator allegedly executed a series of securities transactions based on nonpublic information stolen from Yang’s employer...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Jatavier Bradford, age 17, of Okmulgee, Oklahoma entered a guilty plea to Carrying A Firearm During And In Relation To A Crime Of Violence, punishable by not less than 5 years imprisonment, a fine up to $250,000.00, or both. Bradford, who will be 18 next month, entered a plea of guilty after being transferred to adult status in court.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2020
News Release: PITTBSURGH - A former resident of Monroeville, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to violating the federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 21, 2020
News Release: Washington - In a complaint filed on April 21, 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) alleged that Jones Potato Chip Co. of Mansfield, Ohio, failed to make full payment promptly in the total amount of $438,673 to four sellers for multiple lots of produce in violation of the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA). In this case, Jones Potato Chip Co. paid sellers for produce, but not in a timely fashion in accordance with the PACA.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Jarvisburg man was sentenced today to 96 months in prison for being a felon in possession of ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2020
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Katherine McGrath (619) 546-9054.
