News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn announced that Michael Robert Stevens, age 49, of Colorado Springs, was sentenced yesterday to serve 56 months in federal prison, followed by 3 years on supervised release for possession of improvised destructive devices and ammunition. The Denver Field Division of the ATF joined in today’s announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Lawrence man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with selling fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Former San Diego County Sheriff’s Captain Marco Garmo pleaded guilty in federal court today to illegally trafficking in firearms from his office in the Rancho San Diego Station and committing other corrupt acts spanning close to a quarter of his 27 years in the department.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: Defendant was part of conspiracy in which victims in U.S. were falsely told that they owed money to the IRS.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM and the management and operations contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) have been working with a local community reuse organization to dismantle six buildings for resale, with proceeds supporting regional economic and workforce development activities.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Following alarming reports that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) improperly interfered with COVID-19-related reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) demanded HHS Secretary Alex...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: WILMINGTON, N.C. - A Fayetteville couple pled guilty for their role in a conspiracy which embezzled money belonging to the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 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 Assault by Strangulation and Suffocation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Holyoke man was sentenced today in federal court in Springfield for distributing heroin.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: Over 92% of housing units have been accounted for in the 2020 Census as of today, with 26.6% counted by census takers and other field data collection operations, and 65.9% of housing units responding online, by phone or by mail.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newark man and associate of the street gang known as the “Famous Boyz" was sentenced today to 98 months in prison for conspiring to distribute crack cocaine and possessing with the intent to distribute crack cocaine and cocaine, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Holyoke man was sentenced today in federal court in Springfield for distributing heroin.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, announced that he has introduced legislation to create a COVID-19 Misinformation & Disinformation Task Force amid reports of rising misinformation and disinformation related to...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A Marion County, Oregon man was sentenced to federal prison today for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and possession of a firearm as a convicted felon, announced U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued five Withhold Release Orders (WRO) today on products from the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The products subject to the WROs are produced with state-sponsored forced labor in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, where the Chinese government is engaged in systemic human rights abuses against the Uyghur people and other ethnic and religious minorities.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, Sept. 14, 2020 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reminds communities, farmers and ranchers, families and small businesses in the path of Hurricane Sally that USDA has programs that provide assistance in the wake of disasters. USDA staff in the regional, state and county offices stand ready and are eager to help.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 14, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C., Sept. 14, 2020) – Following the virtual G-20 Agriculture and Water Ministers Meeting hosted by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on Sept. 12, top agricultural officials from five Western Hemisphere countries – Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico and the United States – issued the following ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2020
News Release: The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) are co-hosting the International Competition Network’s (ICN) 19th annual conference, which opens today and runs through Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020. Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim and FTC Chairman Joseph ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2020
News Release: Each weekday, the Department of Justice will highlight a case that has resulted from Operation Legend. Today’s case is out of the Eastern District of Michigan. Operation Legend launched in Detroit on July 29, 2020, in response to the city facing increased homicide and non-fatal shooting rates.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Department of Justice, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced today a proposed settlement with German automaker Daimler AG and its American subsidiary Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC (collectively, “Daimler”) resolving alleged violations of the Clean ...
