News from December 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Arturo Gilberto Estrada, 22, of Albuquerque, pleaded guilty in federal court on Dec. 7 to possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and heroin.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and seven Democratic colleagues today introduced legislation to help more working and middle-class families save for retirement.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement after meeting by phone with California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, President-elect Biden’s nominee to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Eric Fountain, 32, of Rochester, NY, with bank robbery, entering a bank with intent to commit a larceny, and bank larceny. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn Jr. sentenced Nathan Michael McInnis, 45, of Rutherfordton, N.C., to 156 months in prison yesterday for distribution of child pornography, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. McInnis was also ordered to serve a lifetime of supervised release and to register as a sex offender after he is released from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Project Safe Childhood, a unified and comprehensive strategy to combat child sexual exploitation, continues to operate at full speed in Utah. Initiated in May 2006, Project Safe Childhood (PSC) in Utah continues to bring together statewide law enforcement partners to investigate and prosecute cases and raise the level of public awareness and accountability of sexual predators in our communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - Thirteen people have been charged in federal court in Boston in connection with a Lawrence-based fentanyl and cocaine conspiracy.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is making a critical recovery award using Fiscal Year 2019 Disaster Supplemental funds to Northern Marianas College (NMC), Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands, to construct...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: DENVER - U.S. Attorney Jason Dunn announced that David Paul Rietz, age 60, of Lakewood, Colorado was sentenced to serve 92 months in federal prison followed by 3 years of supervised release for conspiracy to commit money laundering. Rietz also was ordered to pay restitution of $4,197,775.83. IRS Criminal Investigation and the Federal Bureau of Investigation joined in this announcement.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader for the 116th Congress Greg Walden (R-OR), Republican Leader for the 117th Congress Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: The Defendant was on Federal Supervised Release at the Time of the Alleged Offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Loren Delaney, of Morgantown, West Virginia, has admitted to her role in methamphetamine, crack cocaine, fentanyl, and heroin drug distribution operation, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: Miami, Fl. -- A South Florida male escort who lied to the IRS about his income pled guilty today in federal court in Ft. Lauderdale to filing a false tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: Defendant Agrees to Pay Restitution and to Assist Prosecutors with Locating and Transferring Assets.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: SEATTLE - Eleven people have been indicted by a grand jury sitting in the Western District of Washington for a multi-state drug trafficking conspiracy. One of those indicted is a rap artist from Snohomish County, Washington, who discussed his drug trafficking activity in a documentary video. All of those in custody appeared in U.S. District Court in Western Washington on Dec. 16, 2020.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader for the 116th Congress Greg Walden (R-OR), Republican Leader for the 117th Congress Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a federal indictment charging MATTHEW HARALD SCHUMACHER, 44, with four counts of wire fraud. SCHUMACHER will make his initial appearance before Magistrate Judge Tony N. Leung in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on January 4, 2020.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: SEATTLE - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers removed an illegally present Mexican national Dec. 8, who was previously convicted in Washington of luring a disabled child.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A leader of the Massachusetts Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (Latin Kings) was sentenced today for drug conspiracy charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: State Attorney’s Office for the 4th Judicial Circuit Receives the Outstanding Local Prosecutor’s Office Award.