News from February 2020
By State Newswire | Feb 18, 2020
News Release: Washington D.C.-Representatives Michael McCaul (R-TX), Lead Republican of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Eliot L. Engel (D-NY), Chairman of the Committee, today wrote to Secretary Pompeo urging him to raise the case of Dr. Walid Fitaihi and his family with government officials during his upcoming...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2020
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A Long Beach man was sentenced today to 272 months in federal prison for leading a crew that committed 13 robberies of Verizon stores across Southern California and Arizona, netting approximately $340,000 worth of smartphones and other merchandise.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Marvin Morrison, 37, of Nashua, pleaded guilty in federal court to participating in a conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2020
News Release: TOPEKA, Kan. - A California man was sentenced today to 52 months in federal prison for smuggling 18 pounds of cocaine to Kansas, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Four fraudsters pleaded guilty today to their respective roles in a $1 million bank fraud conspiracy.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 18, 2020
News Release: COOLIDGE, AZ - On Saturday, February 29th, Casa Grande Ruins National Monument will host travel writer Roger Naylor for a special presentation and book signing event. The presentation will begin at 12:00 pm and immediately after Roger will be signing and selling copies of his book, Arizona State Parks: A Guide to Amazing Places in the Grand Canyon State.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced DESMOND EDWARDS, 21, of Fayetteville, North Carolina to 120 months’ imprisonment, followed by 3 years’ of supervised release.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 18, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) continued to fight for our brave first responders and to protect public safety by introducing the FIRST RESPONDER Act. This bill makes sure that our first responders have the resources needed to respond to 9-1-1 calls and that funding and technologies allocated for 9-1-1 infrastructure are used for that purpose.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2020
News Release: Defendant Admits Shooting Pregnant Bystander in the Head.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 18, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) continued to fight for our brave first responders and to protect public safety by introducing the FIRST RESPONDER Act. This bill makes sure that our first responders have the resources needed to respond to 9-1-1 calls and that funding and technologies allocated for 9-1-1 infrastructure are used for that purpose.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - Massachusetts State Representative David M. Nangle was arrested today and charged in federal court in Boston with illegally using campaign funds to pay for his personal expenses, defrauding a bank to secure loans to repay debts, and collecting income that he failed to report to the IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2020
News Release: Former Alstom Executives and Marubeni Executive Charged with Bribing Indonesian Officials.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 18, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - On Feb. 18, 2020, at approximately 1:30 p.m., special agents assigned to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations’ (HSI) Phoenix Border Enforcement Security Task Force (BEST), along with the Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS) and U.S. Border...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Aaron Robert Schupp, age 36, of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea to Making Counterfeit Obligation, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 471, punishable by not more than 20 years imprisonment, a fine up to $250,000.00, or both.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 18, 2020
News Release: Today, Republican Workforce Leaders on the Education and Labor Committee, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), submitted a comment letter to Secretary Eugene Scalia supporting the Department of Labor’s (DOL) proposed rule to increase transparency and accountability among union intermediate bodies, which are mid-level public sector labor organizations.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced that GREG MILLER pled guilty today to participating in a $9 million scheme to...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Christopher Don Jackson, age 44, of Sallisaw, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea to Conspiracy, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 474, punishable by not more than 5 years imprisonment...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2020
News Release: Tacoma, WA - A 62-year-old Port Townsend, Washington, man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to a federal felony for molesting a 6-year-old child while on a vacation in Canada. JOHN TIMOTHY WHICHER faces a maximum prison term of 30 years in prison when sentenced by U.S. District Judge Benjamin H. Settle on May 18, 2020. As part of the agreement, the parties have agreed to recommend a sentence of 8-12 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2020
News Release: Former U.S. Taxpayer Pleads Guilty in Panama Papers Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2020
News Release: A superseding indictment and criminal complaint were unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging 11 members of the 5-9 Brims, a violent set of the Bloods street gang, with crimes related to their participation in a criminal enterprise that made money through narcotics trafficking and financial...
