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: FORT WAYNE - Jimmy L. Faulkner, Jr., age 36, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, was sentenced before U.S. District Court Judge Damon R. Leichty following his plea of guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: MACON, Ga. - A convicted felon was sentenced to 120 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 7, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - Joshua Brogdon, 33, has been sentenced to 64 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Trent Shores announced today the results of the August 2020 Federal Grand Jury B.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA- A resident of Monroeville, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to three years of probation and a $5,000 fine on his conviction of conspiracy charges related to marriage fraud and visa fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that on August 6, 2020, U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman sentenced Ronald J. Payne (age: 34) to six years’ imprisonment and two years’ supervised release after Payne pled guilty to Possessing a Firearm during and in relation to Drug Trafficking, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 924(c).
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Gary Peters, Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement after the Postal Service provided misleading and incomplete responses to Peters about new directives by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and after...
By State Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Congressman Michael McCaul, Republican Leader on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, introduced the United Nations Transparency and Accountability Act of 2020, legislation that will increase U.S. leadership and engagement at the United Nations through key reforms.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: MIAMI - Federal prosecutors have charged one Florida man and two Massachusetts men for their alleged participation in a fraud and money laundering-ring established in 2019 to carry out business email compromise-schemes and that defendants used, most recently, to steal close to $2 million from Covid-19 relief programs.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON- (August 7, 2020) House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin C. Peterson of Minnesota and Ranking Member K. Michael Conaway of Texas sent a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today, urging him to work with university policy research centers to analyze issues related to the cattle industry, especially in light of the recent and ongoing stress related to COVID-19.
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: SAVANNAH, GA: A former resident of Fort Stewart faces up to life in prison on charges of sexually abusing a child.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr. announced today that David Montemage, 37, of Grand Island, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possessing with intent to distribute marijuana, maintaining a drug involved premises, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking crimes. The charges carry a minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 20 years, and a $500,000 fine.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, issued the following statement about the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Inspector General (IG) report finding that the Trump Administration’s continued efforts to dismantle OPM are “fiscally irresponsible" and place additional burdens on both the agency and American taxpayers.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security, sent a letter to John Ratcliffe, Director of National Intelligence, and Christopher Wray, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), requesting a classified, interagency staff briefing on the counterintelligence, economic, and geopolitical risks of foreign-owned and operated smartphone applications.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Richard O’Hara, age 31, of Glen Aubrey, New York had an initial appearance in federal court in Binghamton, New York yesterday on charges that he attempted to coerce and entice a minor to engage in sexual activity that would constitute a crime in New York. The announcement was made by 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 7, 2020
News Release: Defendant manufactured and distributed steroids and fake prescription medications from basement lab.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: In July 2020, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) released its review of soil samples collected in 2019 to analyze plutonium levels near the Rocky Flats Site in Colorado. Sampling - conducted by the Jefferson Parkway Authority, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and third parties - took place northwest of Denver on the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge and property east of the refuge.
