News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A former employee of William “Rick" Singer’s “The Key" for-profit business has agreed to plead guilty in connection with her involvement in a scheme to use bribery and fraud to facilitate the admission of applicants to colleges nationwide.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - On Thursday, August 6, 2020, U.S. District Judge Kenneth D. Bell sentenced a former teacher for receiving child pornography, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Christopher David Muggler, 27, of Indian Trail, N.C. was sentenced to six years in prison and 10 years of supervised release. He was also ordered to register as a sex offender after he completes his prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted Ronald S. Repass, age 56, of Poolesville, Maryland, on the federal charges of false statements or fraud to obtain federal employees’ disability compensation. The indictment was returned on August 5, 2020. At today’s initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, U.S. Magistrate Judge Timothy J. Sullivan ordered that Repass be released under the supervision of U.S. Pretrial Services.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) task force was instrumental in disrupting a major drug trafficking ring in Northwest Arkansas following a multi-day drug enforcement initiative dubbed Operation Edged Spear Aug. 4-6.
By State Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Representatives Eliot L. Engel, Chair of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Michel McCaul, the Committee’s Ranking Member, today made the following statement on the anniversary of the Russian Invasion of Georgia...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - U.S. Attorney Tim Garrison announced today that 59 additional arrests have been made in the past week by local and federal law enforcement officers in Operation LeGend, for a total of 156 arrests since the start of the operation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A Savannah man has been indicted for pointing a powerful laser at a helicopter being used in a police search.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Curtis Green, 39, Onalaska, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 57 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a felon, and an additional 12 months for revocation of his federal supervised release.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: SEATTLE - Three men, all registered sex offenders, were indicted by a federal grand jury for possessing images of child pornography, announced U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Acting Special Agent in Charge Eben Roberts and U.S. Attorney Brian T.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA: A Georgia man who operated an industrial-scale illegal pill-manufacturing operation has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison, representing the final sentence among the major members of the drug trafficking conspiracy.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Christopher Krebs released the following statement today on the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s update on election threats...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: Washington - As a part of its efforts to enforce the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) and ensure fair trading practices within the U.S. produce industry, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on Double D Sales Company, Inc. (Double D), Visalia, Calif., for failing...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: Indianapolis - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today, Brian Jones, 30, Hamilton, Ohio, was sentenced to 8 years in federal prison by U.S. District Judge James R. Sweeney II. Jones previously pleaded guilty to charges of Unlawful Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 456,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2020/2021 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA: Two Grovetown men have been charged in separate federal indictments alleging possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A former New Jersey broker was sentenced today in federal court in Newark for defrauding his clients by engaging in a multi-year “cherry-picking" scheme that netted nearly $800,000. The defendant was originally indicted in the District of Massachusetts before the case was transferred to New Jersey.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Jon Daigle, Jr., 33, of Belmont, pleaded guilty in federal court on Thursday to conspiracy to commit bank fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: Indianapolis - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today, Brian Jones, 30, Hamilton, Ohio, was sentenced to 8 years in federal prison by U.S. District Judge James R. Sweeney II. Jones previously pleaded guilty to charges of Unlawful Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - Carrington Coleman, 33, has pled guilty to being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the guilty plea today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Two men and two women pleaded guilty on Thursday for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and counterfeit Oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich of the District of Nevada and Assistant Special Agent in Charge Daniel Neill of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
