News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: Nevada Woman Charged with COVID-Relief Fraud.
By State Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Congressman Michael McCaul, Republican Leader on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement applauding the Administration for helping broker a significant normalization agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden County, New Jersey, man under investigation by the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office for child pornography-related offenses was arrested today for allegedly paying $20,000 in Bitcoin to have the child victim murdered, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Jesse Carey, age 33, formerly of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Aug. 12, 2020, by U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion, to 12 years’ imprisonment for two separate drug trafficking crimes committed in Monroe and Luzerne Counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Four residents of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and one resident of Cypress, California, have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Mt. Sterling, Kentucky man, Shawn Perkins, 22, was sentenced in federal court on Thursday, to 78 months in prison, by U.S. District Judge Karen Caldwell, for possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and heroin, possession of a firearm by prohibited person, and using a false statement to purchase a firearm.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $2 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to five EDA Economic Development District organizations across Kansas to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Devin Alexander Motley, 22, of Greenacres, Washington, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to two years in prison for aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today. U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Motley to serve one year of supervised release following his prison sentence and to pay $19,094.15 in restitution. Motley pleaded guilty to the charge on May 19, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Devin Alexander Motley, 22, of Greenacres, Washington, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to two years in prison for aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today. U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Motley to serve one year of supervised release following his prison sentence and to pay $19,094.15 in restitution. Motley pleaded guilty to the charge on May 19, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The former secretary treasurer of a Jersey City Medical Center union and her daughter made their initial appearances today on charges they embezzled $40,455 from the union’s checking and savings accounts, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By State Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement on the announcement of the full normalization of relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after speaking with the White House and Jared Kushner:
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri, man has been charged in federal court with illegally possessing the firearm he accidentally fired in a fatal shooting at the Kansas City Zoo.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: Global Disruption of Three Terror Finance Cyber-Enabled Campaigns.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: Defendants Allegedly Compromised Thousands of Account Numbers.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that on Aug. 12, 2020, DALE PHILLIPS, age 40, a resident of Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, pled guilty to an indictment, charging him with distribution of 200 grams of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Bryan Ferrer-Vazquez, 27, of Jamestown, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin, was sentenced to serve 78 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr. announced today that Adam Williams, 33, of Burt, NY, who was convicted of possession of child pornography involving a prepubescent minor, was sentenced to serve 60 months in prison by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A federal complaint unsealed Tuesday charges a fourth individual with one count of arson for using fire to destroy a Salt Lake City Police Department vehicle during May 30, 2020, riots in Salt Lake City.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: MACON, Ga. - A parolee with multiple prior felony convictions was sentenced to a total of 188 months in prison for illegally possessing firearms and distributing methamphetamine, said Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A man who previously resided in Leesburg pleaded guilty yesterday to downloading images of child sexual abuse over the internet.
