News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS- Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents from the Minneapolis/St. Paul District Office are reporting a significant increase in counterfeit pills entering Minnesota from drug trafficking organizations (DTOs) in California, Arizona and Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Connecticut man has been charged in federal court in Boston with firearm trafficking.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) issued the statement below on the Office of Special Counsel’s advisory opinion stating that the Hatch Act does not prohibit President Trump from delivering his Republican National Convention acceptance speech on White House grounds.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JOSHUA IKEJIMBA, a/k/a “Johnson Ifeanyi Gbono," a/k/a “Alfred Henshaw," a/k/a “Peterson Kamara Lawson," a/k/a “Ganiru Paul Thompson," pled guilty and was sentenced in Manhattan federal court today for...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced new Farm Service Agency (FSA) county committees focused exclusively on urban agriculture. County committees have enabled farmer input on the delivery of FSA programs since the 1930s, and these new committees are part of USDA’s efforts to better support urban agriculture.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Holyoke man was sentenced today in federal court in Springfield for distributing heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: Admits to Massive Scheme That Affected Several Thousand Nationwide.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - A Logan County, Kentucky, man, who previously received a commuted sentence for a felony drug conviction by former Gov. Matt Bevin has today been federally charged with armed drug trafficking, announced United States Attorney Russell Coleman.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: Grand Teton National Park hosted an estimated 755,762 recreation visits in July 2020. This is a 3% decrease compared to July 2019. Park statistics show that July 2020 has the fourth highest number of recreation visits on record for the month of July. More data on National Park Service visitor- use statistics is available at.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that CHRISTOPHER WATSON, age 29, of Harvey was sentenced on Aug. 11, 2020 to 57 months imprisonment before U.S. District Judge Wendy Vitter for conspiracy to commit bank fraud and wire fraud in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $4.2 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to 11 EDA Economic Development District organizations across Iowa to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - An Indiana man has been arrested on a federal fraud charge for allegedly scheming to sell expensive artwork stolen from a storage facility in a north suburb of Chicago.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Eight defendants, who are all Las Vegas residents indicted on June 30, 2020, have been arrested in connection with firearms and drug trafficking (in addition to other firearms offenses) as part of “Operation Nora," announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that James Millette, 33, of Reading, PA, was sentenced to 235 months (over 19 years) in prison and lifetime supervised release by United States District Judge Joseph F. Leeson, Jr., for multiple child pornography charges. The defendant was also ordered to pay a total of $66,000 in restitution to the various victims depicted in these images.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: The Defendants, Arrested In San Jose and Los Banos, Were Charged With Operating the Lab and Distributing The Drug.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Canadian national who resides in Los Angeles was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for his role in a massive global securities fraud scheme that sought to generate $15 million in fraudulent proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Brian Botsford, age 24, of Troy, New York, was arrested on Monday and charged with attempting to entice or coerce a child.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: ABINGDON, VIRGINA - A Grundy, Va., coal company, its owner, and one of its foremen, were sentenced yesterday in the United States District Court in Abingdon for conspiring to defraud the United States by committing dust-sampling fraud to avoid the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s health standards...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Kristina O’Connell, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, today announced that LOUIS DEMAIO, 69, of Guilford, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton to tax evasion and obstruction offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Goldsboro man was sentenced today to 87 months in prison for Conspiracy to Distribute Heroin and Fentanyl and for Distribution of Fentanyl.
