News from December 2020
By USDA Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: Washington - USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) helped farmers, livestock producers and foresters weather a tough 2020, marked with a pandemic and natural disasters. During the COVID-19 pandemic, FSA continued to deliver farm programs to producers through phone and online tools, using social distancing...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Saul Carrasco, age 36, of Simi Valley, California, was sentenced to 102 months’ imprisonment on Dec. 15, 2020, by U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion, for conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute more than a kilogram of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A Northern Alabama doctor and her husband, who also served as her practice manager, pleaded guilty today for their roles in unlawfully distributing opioids and other controlled substances while the doctor was absent from the clinic.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: Federal, state, county and local law enforcement today participated in a wide-ranging takedown operation of 24 individuals charged in a multiple count indictment filed in federal court. These defendants are accused of participating in a drug trafficking conspiracy that involved the use of a communications facility to facilitate a drug felony and the distribution of cocaine, cocaine base, and fentanyl in the Toledo area.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Randolph was arrested yesterday and charged with sex trafficking a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - David Clay Fowlkes, First Assistant United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Melvin Stout, age 40, of Fayetteville, AR, pleaded guilty today to making a false statement on a loan application to obtain money through the Small Business Administration’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person was sentenced on Dec. 15, 2020, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: DENVER - The Bureau of Reclamation announced Ernest Hall, P.E., as chief of the Civil Engineering Services Division #2 at the Technical Service Center in Denver, Colorado. Hall will begin his new position on Dec. 20, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A soldier in the Lucchese Crime Family today admitted planning and carrying out an aggravated assault on the current husband of one of the former stars of the Bravo television show “The Real Housewives of New Jersey," U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Sean R. Sullivan, 50, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of production of child pornography, was sentenced to serve 192 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By State Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel and Lead Republican Michael McCaul have released the following statement on their deep concern over Turkey’s actions under President Erdogan that endanger the NATO alliance, the broader region, and democracy and the rule of law in Turkey.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: No approved vaccine exists for RSV, a life-threatening virus that attacks the respiratory system. State-of-the-art neutron and X-ray scattering performed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) may bring one closer to reality, as the results have clarified the structure of a tiny protein-based particle that is a candidate vaccine’s main functional ingredient.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A New York man today admitted to enticing a minor and transporting the minor across state lines to engage in sexual activity, and to receiving images of child sexual abuse from another minor, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Lake Traverse, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for aggravated sexual abuse of a child and sexual abuse of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Riverside County woman pleaded guilty today to a federal criminal charge for fraudulently obtaining more than $500,000 in COVID-related unemployment benefits for herself.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr. announced today that Taire Chaney, 28, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiring to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine, was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Union County, New Jersey, man will make his initial court appearance today on charges of using other individuals’ personal identification information to obtain unemployment insurance benefits, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Rafael Torres, age 35, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma was sentenced to 209 months’ imprisonment, and 5 years of supervised release for Kidnapping, Interference With Commerce By Robbery, Use, Carry...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: Over the course of the past several days, the FBI, CISA, and ODNI have become aware of a significant and ongoing cybersecurity campaign. Pursuant to Presidential Policy Directive (PPD) 41, the FBI, CISA, and ODNI have formed a Cyber Unified Coordination Group (UCG) to coordinate a whole-of-government...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Martin, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon was sentenced by Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
