News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Chino Valley, Arizona, pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of conspiracy to smuggle misbranded drugs into the United States and introduce them into interstate commerce, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - A federal grand jury in New Haven has returned an indictment charging five Bridgeport men with multiple offenses stemming from their alleged involvement in an afternoon shooting in front of a state courthouse in Bridgeport in January.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was sentenced in federal court to 41 months in prison and three years of supervised release on his conviction of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin and fentanyl, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Khaleef Huskey, 20, and Rasheen Mainor, 20, both of Philadelphia, PA were charged by Indictment with robbing a West Philadelphia convenience store while brandishing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: Jeff Jensen, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, joined the Department of Justice in officially announcing the expansion of Operation Legend to St. Louis. Operation Legend, a sustained, systematic and coordinated law enforcement initiative in which federal law enforcement agencies work in conjunction with state and local law enforcement officials to fight violent crime, will be expanding into the City of St. Louis.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Three members and associates of a violent street gang operating in Newark made their initial court appearances today on charges of conspiring to distribute narcotics, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A federal grand jury returned indictments charging three Northampton County men with various gun and ammunition offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - Two Houston-area family members have been ordered to federal prison following their convictions on multiple counts to include conspiracy, bank fraud, false statements on credit applications, wire fraud and mail fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - Five small business owners have been indicted in connection with a fraudulent scheme to obtain nearly $4.1 million in loan funding under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams announced today that a Portland woman has been charged with preparing more than 1,000 false and fraudulent federal income tax returns requesting over $3 million in fraudulent refunds.
By State Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Chris Coons (D-Del.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Cory Booker ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter Strasser announced today that ELPIDIO JAIMES-LOPEZ, age 41, pled guilty and was sentenced on July 30, 2020 by U.S. District Judge Martin L.C. Feldman to credit for time served on a one-count indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien in violation of Title 8, United...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that earlier today Willie C. Wade (age: 57), a former Milwaukee alderman, was sentenced by United States District Judge Lynn Adelman to four (4) months in prison for executing a wire fraud scheme. Following his term of imprisonment, Wade also must serve three (3) years on supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - A Somerset, Kentucky, man, Michael Davidson, 33, was sentenced in federal court on Thursday, to 85 months in prison, by U.S. District Court Judge Robert Wier, for conspiracy to distributing 50 grams or more of methamphetamine and 40 grams or more of fentanyl.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: Idaho, Statewide - During the current COVID-19 pandemic, many Idahoans have flocked outdoors to enjoy their public lands. With the increase in use and recreation, we are also seeing a higher percentage of human-caused wildfires.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: MIAMI - Federal prosecutors have filed charges in the Southern District of Florida against three local residents for their alleged participation in a scheme to file fraudulent loan applications seeking more than $24 million in forgivable Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: Arkansas Project Manager Pleads Guilty to Bank Fraud and False Statements in Connection with COVID-Relief Fraud.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $3.8 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to 10 EDA Economic Development Districts (EDDs) across Michigan to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced today the conviction of Robert Earl Tucker, Jr., age 45, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Tucker was indicted by a federal grand jury on July 2, 2020, and charged with three counts of making false statements to a federally licensed firearms dealer, one count of possession of a firearm by a person adjudicated as a mental defective, and one count of possession of ammunition by a person adjudicated as a mental defective.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - Milton Ayimadu has been arraigned on federal charges of hoarding and price gouging in violation of the Defense Production Act of 1950 (DPA). Ayimadu was charged by a criminal information.
