News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: ROANOKE, Va. - Frank Purpera Jr., the former owner of the Virginia Vein Institute, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Roanoke to 90 months in federal prison after being convicted by a jury in January 2020 of illegally distributing controlled substances, health care fraud, conspiracy to commit...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 46 months’ imprisonment with credit for time served on any federal detainer; and three years supervised release, on his conviction of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: Javon Peterson Previously Pled Guilty to RICO Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that a federal jury in Rutland today found Shequille Carter, 27, of The Bronx, New York, guilty of possessing with intent to distribute heroin, fentanyl and 28 grams or more of cocaine base following a two-day trial. Chief Judge Geoffrey Crawford ordered that Carter, who has been detained since his arrest in January, remain in jail pending sentencing, which has not yet been scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: ROME, GA- Irfanali Momin and Shiba I. Momin a/k/a Saguftabanu Momin, husband and wife, have each pleaded guilty to naturalization fraud, and conspiring to illegally import misbranded drug products from China, receive misbranded drugs that had moved in interstate commerce, and to trafficking of counterfeit goods.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that a 15-member drug trafficking operation has been dismantled following the conviction of the final defendant involved in the organization. On Sept. 23, 2020, a jury in Kalamazoo convicted Luis Ayala-Vieyra of conspiring to distribute ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today against Elisio Munoz, 40, of Hayward, charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - Carlos Jones, 21, has pled guilty to armed carjacking and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the guilty plea today.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: Treasury: Payroll Tax Deferral Won’t Impact Social Security Trust Funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that more than 300 individuals in 29 states and Washington, D.C., have been charged for crimes committed adjacent to or under the guise of peaceful demonstrations since the end of May.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: On Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020, at approximately 6:30 p.m., Robert Sanders, a 50-year-old male from Centennial, Colorado took a hike from the houseboat he was staying on in Mountain Sheep Canyon on Lake Powell and did not return. He was part of a group of 7 who stated Mr. Sanders wanted to get a better...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON-The top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after the World Trade Organization issued a ruling against President Trump’s use of Section 301 to impose tariffs on China...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $557,254 grant to the Town of Erwin Industrial Development Agency, Painted Post, New York, to support the installation of a new groundwater supply well to meet water capacity demands of manufacturing businesses in the region. The EDA grant, to be matched with $635,066 in state investment, is expected to attract $25 million in private investment.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: “Who would have imagined? That in just a matter of weeks, COVID could turn America’s strongest economy in 90 years, into its worst economy in 90 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Joseph L. Wiley, II, 51, of West Monroe, Louisiana, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett to 36 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for conspiracy to commit health care fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, Special Agent in Charge Michelle...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform (COR), released the “COR Climate Change Agenda," a set of six bills that draw on recommendations from the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis that fall within COR’s jurisdiction.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: Today, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Republican Leader of the Committee on Education and Labor, delivered the following opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at a committee markup of H.R. 8294, the National Apprenticeship Act of 2020, partisan legislation that will close potential pathways to work and fails to provide flexibility for job creators.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Federal law enforcement here in Louisville is sworn to protect First Amendment-protected speech, to include peaceful protest. A key provision of that constitutional right though, is to be “peaceable." Shooting this city’s law enforcement officers, looting its businesses, and committing arson at the front door of its state courthouse is far from peaceable.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: Effective Friday, Sept. 25, the burn ban on all lands within North Cascades National Park Service Complex is lifted. This includes all National Park Service lands and campgrounds in Stehekin, along State Route 20 and the Ross Lake area.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Vernon Schermerhorn III, 51, of Coeymans Hollow, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with attempted enticement of a minor. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in prison, and a maximum of 30 years.
