News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a federal indictment charging ANDREW ALBERT COMEAUX, 37, with one count of possession of a firearm by a felon. COMEAUX, who is in custody on state charges in Rice County, made his first appearance today before Magistrate Judge Becky R. Thorson, in U.S District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota. A detention and arraignment hearing is currently scheduled for Aug. 31, 2020, at 3:00 pm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: Charges include assaulting federal officers, arson, failing to obey lawful orders, and damaging federal property.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: A former vice president of a bank who conspired to lie to the bank for years was sentenced today to three years of probation.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Transportation Security Administration discovered a loaded firearm at a Nashville International Airport (BNA) checkpoint this morning.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement after the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it has requested data from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan on their COVID-19 response in public nursing homes. DOJ is considering an investigation under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: Operation LeGend. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Three Kansas City, Missouri, men have been charged in federal court for their roles in an armed carjacking Monday night that led to a high-speed chase and a collision that killed another motorist. Derrell M. Wade, also known as Derrelle, 19, Curtis R. Daniels, 18...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A new state-of-the-art advanced technology computed tomography checkpoint scanner (CT) that provides 3-D imaging has been installed and is in use at the Transportation Security Administration checkpoint at Richmond International Airport.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Brandon, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Wire Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Christian Barron, 32, and Rosa Briones, 29, both U.S. citizens, have been charged in a criminal complaint with conspiracy to transport illegal aliens. The defendants made an initial appearance in federal court on Aug. 21 and a bond hearing Aug. 24.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Parkersburg man was sentenced to federal prison today for his role in a large-scale, multi-state drug trafficking conspiracy, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Terrence McGuirk, 51, was sentenced to 25 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute more than 500 grams of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: The Sparks Group is Alleged to Have Caused Tens of Millions of Dollars in Losses to Film Production Studios.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors have filed charges against a Fashion District clothing importer and the company’s owner in a scheme to undervalue imported garments and avoid paying millions of dollars in duties to the United States. The cases also allege a tax fraud scheme in which the company’s owner failed to report on tax returns millions of dollars derived from cash transactions.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A suburban Pittsburgh resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of robbery under the federal Hobbs Act statute, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas man was indicted today on federal firearms and drug trafficking charges, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) continues to work with partners across both public and private sectors to execute the Whole of America response to COVID-19 and ensure the challenges we face during these unprecedented times are met. Our partners at the DHS Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) have worked diligently with our private sector partners to find creative solutions to those challenges, while carrying out the mission of DHS to secure our homeland.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON (Aug. 26, 2020) - Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the Next Gen Fertilizer Challenges, a joint EPA-USDA partnership and competition to advance agricultural sustainability in the United States. The competition includes ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: A Ghanaian citizen residing in Tamale, Ghana, has been extradited to stand trial for an indictment charging him with wire fraud, money laundering, computer fraud and aggravated identity theft. Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian C. Rabbitt of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant of the Western District of Tennessee, and Special Agent in Charge Douglas Korneski of the FBI’s Memphis Field Office made the announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York entered a consent decree imposing a permanent injunction barring two individuals and two companies that transmitted massive volumes of fraudulent robocalls from conveying any telephone calls into the U.S. telephone system, the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: The Honorable Chief Judge Rodney W. Sippel of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri sentenced Freddie Doyle, 32, to 46 months of imprisonment for violating 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), in relation to an attempted assault on patrons of a LGBTQ-community bar in St. Louis, Missouri.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: Today the Justice Department requested COVID-19 data from the governors of states that issued orders which may have resulted in the deaths of thousands of elderly nursing home residents. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan required nursing homes to admit COVID-19 patients to their vulnerable ...
