News from December 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - El Fiscal Federal de los Estados Unidos para el Distrito de Puerto Rico, W. Stephen Muldrow y el Elder Justice Task Force (EJTF, por sus siglas en inglés) anunciaron hoy el lanzamiento de una campaña de educación y prevención de estafas a adultos mayores en tiempos de la pandemia del COVID-19.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: Singaporean Shipping Company Fined $12 Million in a Multi-District Case for Concealing Illegal Discharges of Oily Water and Garbage and a Hazardous Condition.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Demontra Tucker, 23, of Biloxi, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr. to 41 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Michelle Sutphin with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi. Tucker was also ordered to pay a $5,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: Fairbanks, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that 40-year-old Sherman Kay Howard, of Fairbanks, Alaska, has been sentenced on charges of possessing with intent to distribute over 500 grams of methamphetamine and over 100 grams of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: Defendant Allegedly Misappropriated More Than $700,000 in Investor Funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: WILMINGTON, N.C. - Jerome Little of Greenville was sentenced today to 87 months in prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Among other crimes, Little was previously convicted of armed bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Nineteen defendants, primarily from the Columbia and Kansas City, Missouri, areas, have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in a $1.2 million insurance fraud conspiracy that involved false claims of injuries suffered in car accidents.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Senate Banking Committee Ranking Member Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, Senate Finance Committee Member Michael Bennet, D-Colo., and Senator Jack Reed, D-R.I., today introduced the American Worker Holiday Relief Act to avert looming financial disaster for millions of workers who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own.
By State Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: Richard “Rick" Yoneoka is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service. He assumed the position as Director of the Office of Aviation Negotiations in August 2020. Since December 2020, he has been the Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Transportation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: DAYTON, Ohio - A 22-year-old Dayton man was sentenced in U.S. District Court here today for committing at least five armed robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: Approved Payments to Fake Web Security Company.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, ME - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle announced today that Maine will be the 19th site where DEA will implement its comprehensive DEA 360 Strategy initiative to address prescription misuse, poly substance misuse and violent crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Mario Casiero-Antonio, a citizen of Mexico, is facing an illegal reentry charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - First Assistant United States Attorney David Clay Fowlkes for the Western District of Arkansas, Special Agent in Charge Diane Upchurch of the FBI Little Rock Field Office, Special Agent in Charge Peter Kapoukakis of the U.S. Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - ISHMAEL FARRAKAN MUHAMMAD, a.k.a. Mike Rodgers, a.k.a. Dewayne Robinson, 32, of Stillwater, has been sentenced to serve 110 months in federal prison for illegally possessing a firearm after having been previously convicted of a felony crime, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A California man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Worcester for his role in a conspiracy to traffic drugs from California to Western Massachusetts and launder the proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The captain of the P/V Conception, a Santa Barbara-based dive boat that caught fire last year near Santa Cruz Island, resulting in the deaths of 33 passengers and one crew member, was indicted today by a federal grand jury on 34 counts of seaman’s manslaughter.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - An illegal alien who has been deported from the U.S. at taxpayer expense on four occasions, pleaded guilty yesterday to once again illegally entering the United States.
By State Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: Washington-Today, Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, released the final report of the congressionally-mandated Western Hemisphere Drug Policy Commission. The report, which was transmitted to Congress this week and can be found here, provides critical recommendations that will help policymakers improve U.S. drug policy in Latin America and the Caribbean.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
Release: The government of South Korea has asked USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) to authorize the importation of bunjae (miniaturized plants) of elm,Ulmus davidiana Planch (Ulmaceae) for propagation into the continental United States. APHIS has drafted a pest risk assessment that describes ...
