News from September 2020
By DOE Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) released the following statement today after the Trump White House blocked Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Stephen Hahn, M.D., from testifying before the Energy and Commerce Committee...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: Orlando, Florida - A federal jury has found Tony Deshane Brown, a/k/a Antowayne Hill, a/k/a Antowayne Pollard (50, Orlando), guilty of possession with the intent to distribute cocaine. He faces up to 20 years in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for Dec. 16, 2020.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: Superintendent Mike Pflaum announced plans for a prescribed burn in the Heck Table area of Badlands National Park. The window for the prescribed burn is between September 18 and November 1. The window allows for ideal weather conditions to be present for the burn to occur. Several parameters must be met, such as temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, wind direction, and the amount of moisture in the dead vegetation. The total burn area will be between 250 and 3500 acres.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Possession of a Firearm While Under Indictment.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: Washington - President Donald J. Trump and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced up to an additional $14 billion for agricultural producers who continue to face market disruptions and associated costs because of COVID-19. Signup for the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP 2) will begin September 21 and run through Dec. 11, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: SENTENCING - MARCUS CARL GRANT. On Sept. 11, Marcus Carl Grant, 38, was sentenced to 87 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance and felon in possession of a firearm. During the execution of a search warrant of a known drug house, law enforcement located...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham. United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LUQMAN GOTTI, formerly known as Timothy Pennington, 39, of Manchester, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 80 months of imprisonment, followed by 10 years of supervised release, for exchanging sexually explicit images with a teenage boy.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: The National Park Service and the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) are pleased to announce the certification of Timpanogos Cave National Monument as an IDA Urban Night Sky Place. Timpanogos Cave is the first National Park Service unit to receive this certification, which recognizes sites near or surrounded by large urban areas which actively promote an authentic nighttime experience in the midst of a significant artificial light at night.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: Consultants to Amazon Marketplace merchants paid over $100,000 in bribes to secure an unfair competitive advantage worth more than $100 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TYRELL CAMPBELL, also known as “Bricks," 30, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 78 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing fentanyl and heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Jorge Rodriguez, 23, a citizen of the Dominican Republic most recently residing in Lawrence, Massachusetts, was sentenced on Thursday to 132 months in federal prison for fentanyl trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-A Tennessee man was sentenced late Thursday on one count of production of child pornography. United States District Court Judge James M. Moody sentenced Craig Gillum, 55, of Shelbyville, Tennessee, to 280 months in federal prison. Cody Hiland, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Diane Upchurch, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Little Rock Field Office, announced the sentencing.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON -Two individuals have been charged with bribery offenses in connection with Department of Defense contracts as part of the Fraud Section’s ongoing efforts to combat corruption and fraud in contracting on U.S. military installations overseas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - United States Attorney Brian J. Kuester today announced the results of the August & September 2020 Federal Grand Juries. The combined grand juries returned 32 unsealed and 4 sealed indictments on crimes ranging from kidnapping, federal firearms offenses, robbery, drug trafficking/distribution, child exploitation, aggravated sexual assaults in Indian country, and murder in Indian country.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA- United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Thomas J. Whalen, D.O., 65, of Berwyn, PA, has agreed to pay the United States $1,257,499.00 to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act that he submitted or caused the submission of false claims to federal health care plans...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: Washington - As part of its commitment to ensuring fair and competitive markets for the livestock, meat, and poultry industries, on Sept. 1, 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued a Decision and Order Without Hearing by Reason of Default against Justin Harless (Harless) of New Albany, Miss., for violation of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for a scheme to defraud numerous life insurance companies.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn announced that Andre Daniel Gilmore of Denver was sentenced on Sept. 16, 2020, to serve 40 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, to run concurrent to his 16 year state prison sentence for attempted murder in Denver County. The Denver Field Division of the ATF joined in this announcement.
