News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - On Wednesday, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an eight-count indictment against legislator Nelson Del Valle Colon (Del Valle), a member of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives, as well as two of his employees, Nickolle Santos-Estrada (Santos) and her mother Mildred Estrada-Rojas (Estrada), for their alleged participation in a multi-year theft, bribery, and kickback conspiracy.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $2.4 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to six EDA Economic Development District organizations across New Mexico to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Michael Fein was indicted today with two felony charges of wire fraud and bank fraud related to bank loans made to T.E.H. Realty connected to the purchase and operations of various multi-family apartment complexes in St. Louis, Kansas City, and elsewhere.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Thomas Squires, age 35, of Cairo, New York, was arrested yesterday and charged with attempting to entice a child.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - On Aug. 19, 2020, United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose sentenced Bryan Christopher Hanson, age 24, of Rock Island, Ill., to ten months in prison for assault on a postal worker, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Hanson was ordered to serve three years of supervised release to follow his prison term and pay $100 to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: Texas Rapper Charged in Narcotics and Prescription Opioid Conspiracy.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today released new data from the second phase of the experimental Small Business Pulse Survey. Data collection began Aug. 9, 2020. Results will be released weekly starting Aug. 20 through Oct. 15, 2020. The second phase includes questions on the core concepts from the first phase...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: Washington - U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, are rebuking a pair of their Senate colleagues for making false claims in the media about the chairmen’s ongoing...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Michael C. Greutman, 59, of Fort Walton Beach, Florida, was sentenced Tuesday afternoon to 42 months in federal prison on charges of wire fraud and tax evasion stemming from his embezzlement of funds from his employer. Lawrence Keefe, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced the sentencing.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: MONTE VISTA, Colo. - Current and forecasted weather, coupled with dry conditions, have prompted the BLM’s San Luis Valley Field Office to again implement fire restrictions on BLM-managed lands in Alamosa, Rio Grande, Conejos, Costilla, and Saguache counties. In addition to the heightened risk for fires...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Autumn Saglimbeni, age 35, was sentenced today to 21 months in prison for escaping from Horizon House Residential Re-entry Center on November 7, 2019, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: Jackson, TN - Brandi Oswalt, 32, a resident of Cedar Grove, Tennessee, has been sentenced to 170 months in federal prison for her role in a conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute in excess of 156 grams of actual methamphetamine. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: FBI Releases Seeking Information Posters to Assist Partner Agencies in Investigations.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a federal indictment charging MIKLOS TERREL DATES, JR., 25, with one count of possession of a firearm by a felon. DATES, who was taken into custody earlier today, made his initial appearance before Magistrate Judge Becky R. Thorson in U.S. District...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: Liberty & Ellis Islands, NY/NJ - The National Park Service (NPS) announced today that the Statue of Liberty Museum and the Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration intend to partially reopen on Monday, August 24. The reopening is in response to the City of New York’s inclusion of museums and cultural...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Huger, South Carolina couple pleaded guilty today in South Carolina before the U.S. District Judge Brucie H. Hendricks in the District of South Carolina to charges stemming from their conspiracy to obtain a U.S. passport by falsely claiming they were the biological parents of a baby born in the Philippines and by using false birth records to apply for a U.S. passport for the baby.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Yesterday, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned a second superseding indictment against five defendants charged with kidnapping resulting in murder and firearm offenses, announced W. Stephen Muldrow, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS - A Billings woman who admitted having five firearms while trafficking methamphetamine in the community was sentenced today to eight years in prison and five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Hakeem Mauzon, age 29, of Troy, New York, was sentenced on Tuesday to 63 months in prison for distributing crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: Brian Kolfage, Stephen Bannon, and Two Others Alleged to Have Funneled Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars From the Organization to Kolfage; All Four Defendants Allegedly Profited From Their Roles in the Scheme.
