News from August 2020
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A San Fernando Valley man now believed to have fled the United States today faces federal criminal charges for allegedly obtaining more than $860,000 in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans for a shell company and then transferring the bulk of his illicit gains to his personal bank accounts.
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 $6.2 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to 16 EDA Economic Development District organizations across Missouri to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: Fresno, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation announced today a 30-day public comment period for a 35-year contract renewal of the transfer of operation, maintenance and replacement activities related to Friant-Kern Canal and other associated works to the Friant Water Authority.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the unsealing of three separate indictments against OLUFEMI OLUWASEUN BANJO, a/k/a “Femi Banjo," 37, FRANCIS NWABUEZE IWUOHA, 38, and OLUWADAMILARE GBENGA MACAULAY, 32, charging them with wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiracy. The defendants are at large and believed to be in Nigeria.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - An Akron, Ohio man has pled guilty to a federal drug charge, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Devante Terrell Hatch, 28, pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Steven Somers, of Clinton, Maryland, was sentenced today to 78 months incarceration for drug and firearms charges, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - U.S. Marshal Tyreece Miller announces the arrests of Kimberly Jordan, Phyllis Jones, and Dedricz Perry for Reckless Homicide.
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 Commerce Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: Dear Postmaster General: We write to follow up on the letter that was sent on August 6 to you regarding many serious concerns about operational changes that you have implemented since assuming the position of Postmaster General, which have worsened the crisis facing the Postal Service, and specifically...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman announced today that Mohammad H. Mohammad, age 56, of Parma, was sentenced to 5 years of probation and ordered to pay $489,189.00 in restitution and a $100,000.00 fine.
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: Florence, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr. announced today that Antonio Thelwell, 30, was sentenced to more than three years in federal prison after pleading guilty to a conspiracy to commit wire fraud, which swindled more than 150 mostly elderly victims out of almost $850,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn today announced that Cassidy Morgan Ahearn, age 19, of Boulder County, Colorado, was sentenced today to serve two years of probation, which includes 12 months of home detention, for making a false statement during the acquisition of a firearm. She appeared at the hearing remotely on bond. The Denver Field Division of the ATF joined in today’s announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Manuel Chavira, 25, was charged on Aug. 3, 2020 in a recently-unsealed federal criminal complaint. Chavira was charged with both carjacking and discharging a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Amber Decker, age 26, of Antwerp, New York, was sentenced in federal court today to serve 264 months (22 years) in federal prison for her part in the sexual exploitation and hands-on abuse of a two year old child, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, and Thomas F. Relford, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Joseph LaForte, 49, of Haverford, PA, was arrested and charged by Indictment with possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: Greenville, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr. announced today that Fernando Lara, 45, of Marietta, Georgia, was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison, marking the thirteenth and final defendant to be sentenced in a large methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy in Georgia and the Upstate region of South Carolina. The sentences, which total 145 years in federal prison, come after twelve guilty pleas and Lara’s conviction at trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the unsealing of an charging Wilmer Rosales (22, Plant City), a/k/a “DoubleU," and Joel Sierra (25, Plant City), a/k/a “Jojo," with conspiring to traffic in controlled substances, conspiring to commit robbery, and robbery. The indictment...
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: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Amber Decker, age 26, of Antwerp, New York, was sentenced in federal court today to serve 264 months (22 years) in federal prison for her part in the sexual exploitation and hands-on abuse of a two year old child, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, and Thomas F. Relford, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
