News from December 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - David Clay Fowlkes, First Assistant United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas announced that, Jonathan Terry, age 35, was sentenced today to 120 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release on one count of Money Laundering. The Honorable Judge Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearing today in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: BANGOR, Maine: An Augusta man was sentenced today in federal court for two counts of making false statements to a federally licensed firearms dealer, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS - A Laurel man admitted today that he attempted to illegally obtain $35,000 from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), a federal loan program created to help businesses struggling during the coronavirus pandemic, Acting U.S Attorney Leif Johnson said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today Gilberto Marchese, 38 of Lockport, NY, who was convicted of possessing with intent to distribute cocaine, was sentenced to serve 46 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Bullhead, South Dakota, man convicted of three counts of Child Abuse was sentenced on Dec. 14, 2020, by Judge Charles B. Kornmann, U.S. District Court.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - EM crews at Oak Ridge have laid protective soil over a 9-acre parcel at East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) where an oil tank farm once sat, and they’re preparing 21 acres of adjacent land for soil cover to improve site drainage.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: The United States Mint America the Beautiful (ATB) Quarters Program is a multi-year initiative to honor 56 national parks and other national sites in each state. Five new reverse designs have been released for the quarter-dollar each year beginning in 2010 and will continue through 2021. The America the Beautiful (ATB) Quarters are legal tender coinage, issued by the United States Mint and available in general circulation.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Congressman Robert C. “Bobby Scott (VA-03), chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, released the following statement in response to the Department of Labor announcing its final fiduciary rule.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: TACOMA - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers removed a Mexican national convicted in Washington state of three counts of child molestation, Dec. 8.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Jo-El Rene Torres, of Clarksburg, West Virginia, is facing a drug charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, appeared on “Mornings with Maria" Tuesday to discuss the 2020 election and the federal investigation into Hunter Biden.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Melissa Elaine Caprio, of Elkins, West Virginia, is facing firearms and drug charges, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Braxton Dauphin Cook, 31, of Pine Hill, Alabama, was sentenced in federal court for being an unlawful drug user in possession of stolen firearms. Cook pleaded guilty to the charge in August 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - Two home health agency owners are set to appear in federal court on charges they fraudulently billed more than $10 million to Medicare, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Burlington County, New Jersey, man today admitted illegally possessing a firearm, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Youngstown, Ohio, was sentenced to 8 years in prison on charges of Armed Bank Robbery and Using and Brandishing a Firearm During and in Relation to a Crime of Violence, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A federal grand jury has returned an indictment against a 40-year-old Laredo woman for attempting to smuggle goods from the United States, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty plea of DYLAN SHAKESPEARE ROBINSON, 23, to one count of conspiracy to commit arson at the Minneapolis Police Department’s Third Precinct. ROBINSON entered his guilty plea today before Judge Patrick J. Schiltz in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A sentencing date will be scheduled at a later time.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: An Old Orchard Beach man was sentenced today in federal court for conspiring to distribute fentanyl and crack cocaine, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS - The Consolidated Group of Tribes and Organizations (CGTO) - a collection of 16 Native American tribes with cultural and historical ties to the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) - is helping solve a unique challenge at the NNSS, using traditional ecological knowledge and thousands of years of history in a collaborative effort to revegetate portions of the site’s complex terrain.
