News from December 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, New York Division announced today that Andres Escalera, 29, of Phelps, NY, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Court Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to attempted possession...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: Miami, Fl. -- A former Venezuelan National Treasurer and her spouse were charged in a superseding indictment for their alleged participation in a previously indicted billion-dollar currency exchange and money laundering scheme. An alleged co-conspirator was previously charged in the original indictment.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: Washington - Despite the challenges 2020 brought, the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) continued to lead the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s pursuit of global trade opportunities for American agriculture, successfully delivering on Secretary Sonny Perdue’s charge to “Do Right and Feed Everyone.".
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: Owner of Texas Chain of Hospice Companies Sentenced for $150 Million Health Care Fraud and Money Laundering Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A former leader of the New Bedford Chapter of the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (“Latin Kings") was sentenced today for drug conspiracy charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that four Sisseton, South Dakota, people have been indicted by a federal grand jury for aggravated assault and robbery.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: GRAND CANYON, Ariz. - On December 15 at approximately 7:41 a.m. the Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center received a call reporting a fatality above the Black Bridge on the South Kaibab Trail.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for heroin trafficking.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today released new data from the third phase of the experimental Household Pulse Survey. The Household Pulse Survey is the result of an effort by the Census Bureau and other federal statistical agencies to document temporal trends in how individuals are experiencing business curtailment...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (MI), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, participated in a hearing convened at the direction of Chairman Ron Johnson (R-WI) that gave a platform to false narratives that undermine public trust in the outcome of the 2020 election and threaten American national security and democracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: “As the United States pursues a full and fair investigation into the death of Casey Goodson, Jr., I want to make clear that there is one criminal investigation underway through the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio. It is a joint criminal civil rights investigation being...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., released a statement today following a phone call with Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary-Designate Xavier Becerra, currently the Attorney General of California...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: Former Venezuelan National Treasurer and Her Spouse Charged in Connection with International Bribery and Money Laundering Scheme.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: Washington - Throughout 2020, U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) delivered critical services and timely resources to agricultural producers.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two individuals today admitted their roles in a multimillion-dollar scheme that defrauded health benefits programs through the submission of medically unnecessary prescriptions for compounded medications, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: Northern Alabama Doctor and Practice Manager Convicted for Conspiring to Unlawfully Distribute Opioids.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Catoctin Mountain Park, Antietam and Monocacy national battlefields, Manassas National Battlefield Park, and Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and Harpers Ferry national historical parks will conduct deer management operations in 2021 to protect and restore native plants, promote healthy and diverse...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: Today alone law enforcement seized pounds of methamphetamine, heroin and thousands of fentanyl laced pills.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Maroquez Clah, 29, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation from Red Valley, Arizona, was sentenced in federal court on Dec. 15 to 37 months in prison for involuntary manslaughter. Clah was also ordered to pay restitution of $4,500.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, New York Division announced today that Kareem Pryor, 30, of Buffalo, who was convicted of assault with a dangerous weapon in aid of racketeering, and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, was sentenced to serve 41 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
