News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: On February 7, 2020, United States Attorney Christina E. Nolan announced the results of a multi-agency, multi-jurisdictional law enforcement effort that focused on drug trafficking in Rutland, Vermont and the surrounding area. During the months-long operation conducted by federal, state, local, and county...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: U.S. District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks sentenced Andrew Melendez-Gonzalez, 22, of Loxahatchee, Florida, to 20 years in federal prison, followed by 25 years of supervised release, for coercing a 15-year-old girl from the Philippines into taking sexually explicit photographs and videos of herself and sending them to his cellular telephone.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: Washington D.C. - Today Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) spoke on the House floor in favor of H.R. 5687, which provides $4.67 billion in emergency funding to Puerto Rico following 12 earthquakes of greater than 5.0 magnitude that have destroyed homes and infrastructure, led...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that a federal grand jury in Raleigh has returned an indictment charging MARCOS ALEJANDRO CASTILLO-MUNOZ, age 44, of El Salvador, with Illegal Reentry.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - Arkiest Young, 38, has pleaded guilty to attempted Hobbs Act business robbery. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the guilty pleas today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Lee’s Summit, Missouri, woman and her brother, a Denver, Colorado, man, were sentenced in federal court today for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute more than $1.7 million of marijuana that was mailed from Colorado to Missouri.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: Evansville - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced federal charges against 17 individuals, who are alleged to have operated a drug trafficking organization, some of whom are members and associates of the Evansville Grim Reapers Motorcycle Club, for bringing large quantities of methamphetamine...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A 41-year-old Allen, Texas man has been sentenced for child pornography violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown and FBI Special Agent in Charge Matthew J. DeSarno today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: Director Christopher Wray has named Douglas A. Leff as the assistant director of the Inspection Division at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. The division’s responsibilities include conducting internal investigations, reviewing operational performance and use of enforcement authorities across all investigative programs, and conducting special inquiries as ordered by the director and deputy director.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON-The Bureau of Land Management-Eastern States (BLM-ES) welcomes Gary Torres as the Acting State Director, expected to serve in this role through the spring. Torres comes into this temporary assignment from the BLM Green River District headquartered in Vernal, Utah, where he serves as the District Manager. As the Acting State Director, he brings nearly 30 years of natural resource management experience to the BLM-ES office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: A Detroit-area retail vendor will spend 24 months in prison for defrauding the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as the food stamp program, U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider announced today.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Leaders Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (D-VA) unveiled the Ban Surprise Billing Act, a bipartisan agreement to protect patients from devastating surprise bills. The Committee is scheduled to markup the legislation on Tuesday, February 11.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: An owner of an engineering firm, Fazlullah Khan, 58, of Troy, was sentenced yesterday to 132 months as a result of having been convicted by a jury on four counts of bribery, United States Attorney Matthew Schneider announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that on February 7, 2020, Ignacio Tapia-Lopez, age 38, was sentenced in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska, for Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine. United States District Court Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. sentenced Tapia-Lopez to 11 years, 7 months of imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal system. After completing his term of imprisonment, Tapia-Lopez will be deported to Mexico as he is not a U.S. citizen.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Kayla Dade, 20, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of Hobbs Act Robbery, was sentenced to serve 31 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: GLENNALLEN, Alaska - The Bureau of Land Management announces the availability of the Record of Decision and Approved Haines Amendment to the Ring of Fire Resource Management Plan.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - MARC A. VICTORIANO (VICTORIANO), age 46, of Covington, Louisiana, was charged in federal court in a one-count Indictment for theft from a program receiving federal funds.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: Washington - As part of its commitment to ensuring fair and competitive markets for the livestock, meat and poultry industries, on Jan. 31, 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reached a consent decision against Eugene Nisly, doing business as Carrollton Livestock Auction (Carrollton), Carrollton, Ohio, for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - The former chief executive officer of PIMCO, one of the world’s largest asset companies, was sentenced to nine months in prison today for paying bribes totaling $850,000 to secure his children’s admission to the University of Southern California (USC) and Georgetown University (Georgetown).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A South Carolina man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for picking up a Savannah runaway and taking her across state lines for sex.
