News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that Jonathan Andrew Blacksmith, a/k/a Jon Andrew Blacksmith, age 44, was found guilty of 2 counts of Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person, 2 counts of Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance, and 1 count of Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance of Drug Trafficking Crime following a federal jury trial in Rapid City, South Dakota.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Six employees of the Kansas City, Missouri, public works department have pleaded guilty to their roles in a nearly three-year-long conspiracy to collect $58,000 in fraudulent overtime pay.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the guilty pleas of all seven defendants previously charged with defrauding the federal “E-Rate" program, designed to provide information technology to underprivileged schools, in connection with private...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Six employees of the Kansas City, Missouri, public works department have pleaded guilty to their roles in a nearly three-year-long conspiracy to collect $58,000 in fraudulent overtime pay.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Natural Resources Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today hailed House passage of the Protecting America’s Wilderness Act (H.R. 2546), which combines six previously separate bills that together recognize more than 1.3 million acres of wilderness across the West and protect more than...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening remarks during the markup of H.R. 2214, the National Origin-Based Antidiscrimination for Nonimmigrants (NO BAN) Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that RICHARD DIVER pled guilty earlier today to fraud charges in connection with his embezzlement from the asset management company where he served as chief operating officer. Specifically, DIVER pled guilty...
By State Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX), Lead Republican of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Congressman Joe Wilson, Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East, North Africa, and International Terrorism and Congressman Lee Zeldin, Ranking Member...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA, PA - Independence Historical Trust is pleased to announce that they have received a pledge of $1 million from the Landenberger Family Foundation to support the Bicentennial Bell Garden project. The project will relocate the Bicentennial Bell, a gift from Great Britain in 1976 that was given to the United States and display it in a rehabilitated garden at the corner of 3rd and Walnut Streets.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: Defendant ordered to pay nearly $1,000,000 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Paul E. Lubienecki, 62, of Hamburg, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with cyberstalking. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: Melissa Scanlan (a/k/a “The Drug Llama") has been sentenced to 160 months in federal prison in the.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that the government has reached a settlement agreement under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (“ADA") with Progressive Casualty Insurance Company (“Progressive") to ensure equal access for individuals with disabilities at all Progressive Casualty Insurance Company locations across the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - U.S. District Judge Michael M. Mihm has sentenced Alfred E. Jerry, 28, of Charleston, Ill., to 22 years in prison for the May 2, 2019, armed robbery of the Team Wireless store in Charleston, Ill. Jerry was sentenced on Feb. 11, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that David E. Doll, 60, of Bennington, Nebraska, was sentenced today in Lincoln, Nebraska, by Senior United States District Judge Richard G. Kopf for failure to pay over withholding taxes. Doll was sentenced to 5 years’ probation and was ordered to pay $279,609.77 in restitution.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: This administration’s budget is built on policies that pillage working families to pay for brand new windfalls for corporations and the wealthy. That harmful agenda has been on clear display over the last few weeks in two events I want to address.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the guilty pleas of all seven defendants previously charged with defrauding the federal “E-Rate" program, designed to provide information technology to underprivileged schools, in connection with private...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Feb. 11, 2020, Roberto Torner, age 47, of Freeland, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 270 months’ imprisonment and five years of supervised release, by United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion, for drug trafficking, firearms, and explosives offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: Miami, FL - Operation Triple Beam, a U.S. Marshals-led 30-day operation to reduce gang and violent crime, concluded Jan. 31, and resulted in 150 arrests.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, has pleaded guilty in federal court in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
