News from August 2020
By State Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
Release: More information about Monaco is available on the Monaco Page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Avocado House Inc. satisfied a reparation order in the amount of $8,629 issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) involving unpaid produce transactions.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Nicholas K. Murn, 26, Whitewater, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty and was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to nine years in federal prison, for committing five armed robberies of Rock County businesses during a two-week period of time in October 2019. His term of imprisonment will be followed by a three-year term of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: Defendant was responsible for shooting rival gang member in the back in September 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Elbert James Carter, 38, of Bay St. Louis, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr. to 180 months in prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Brad Byerley with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Judge Guirola also ordered Carter to pay a $3,500 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: Dennis Williams, the former President of the international United Auto Workers union, was charged today in a Criminal Information with conspiring with other UAW officials to embezzle UAW funds announced U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Johnathan Quarles, 25, of Gulfport, pled guilty today before U.S. District U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to one count of possession of a firearm by an unlawful user, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Michelle Sutphin, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: The Defendant Was Caught at Charlotte Airport with more than $130,000 in Cash Proceeds from Romance and Precious Metals Scams.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Bridger, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child, Sexual Abuse of a Minor, and Abusive Sexual Contact of a Child.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: HAMMOND - Joseph Stahura, age 64, of Whiting, Indiana, was charged with wire fraud and filing a false income tax return, announced U.S. Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II. He has entered into a plea agreement indicating his intent to plead guilty to both charges. His wife, Diane Stahura, age 64, also of Whiting, Indiana entered into a deferred prosecution agreement wherein she acknowledges that the Government has sufficient evidence to charge her with wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr. announced today that David Mondore, 29, of New York, New York, was arrested this morning in Manhattan and charged by complaint with unauthorized access to computer systems in furtherance of any criminal act in violation of state law; unauthorized access...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man was charged in federal district court with Possession of a Firearm and Ammunition by a Prohibited Person.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: A federal judge sentenced a Quapaw man today for sexually abusing a child under 12 years of age in Indian Country, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - Devin Baker, 31, an armed career criminal, has pleaded guilty to possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the guilty plea today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An electronic health records company based in Passaic County, New Jersey, has agreed to pay $500,000 to resolve allegations that a former subsidiary caused users to file false claims with the government, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Kenneth R. Britt, Jr., 51, of Wesson, Tony Grant Smith, 26, of Wesson, Barney Leon Bairfield, III, 28, of Brookhaven, and Dustin Corey Treadway, 27, of Brookhaven, have been charged in a criminal indictment by a federal grand jury with killing in excess of the legal limit of Kansas and...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $6.8 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to capitalize and administer Revolving Loan Funds (RLFs) that will provide critical gap financing to small businesses and entrepreneurs that have been adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic across Rhode Island.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Joplin, Missouri, man has been sentenced in federal court for the sexual exploitation of a 4-year-old child victim.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: Defendant fraudulently obtained over $267,000 by underreporting his income to the IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Donte Bennett, a/k/a Tay, age 27, of Baltimore, Maryland pleaded guilty today to participating in a drug conspiracy that operated in and around the Baltimore metropolitan area, distributing heroin, fentanyl, cocaine, and crack cocaine in Maryland and surrounding states.
