News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: Today, a federal grand jury in El Paso, Texas, indicted Patrick Wood Crusius, 21, of Allen, Texas, on hate crimes and firearm charges in connection with the murder of 22 people and attempted murder of 23 others at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, on Aug. 3, 2019. The announcement was made by Assistant...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Laverne Schaeffer, age 48, of Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on February 5, 2020 to 28 months’ imprisonment by U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani for participating in a methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
Release: Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D-MN), Chair of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's non-tribal public witness day.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: “The U.S. Attorney’s Office has received numerous inquiries regarding the State Auditor’s investigation into the Mississippi Department of Human Services and local indictments returned by a Hinds County grand jury in that case.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A senior correctional office and a lieutenant at FMC Devens were arrested today and charged with injuring an inmate and then obstructing the investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: Dark Web Child Pornography Facilitator Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Advertise Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of South Carolina today concluded that there is reasonable cause to believe that the conditions at the Broad River Road Complex in Columbia, South Carolina, violate the Fourteenth Amendment...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri, man pleaded guilty in federal court today to two bank robberies and the armed robbery of a Subway store during a February 2016 crime spree.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: Springfield, MO - Bradley Eugene Keith, age 39, was arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service-Eastern Arkansas Fugitive Task Force near Little Rock on Thursday, February 6th.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: SANTA FE, N.M. -The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) New Mexico raised $20,425,939 in its quarterly oil and gas lease sale held February 6, 2020. Nearly 50 percent of the revenue from the sale will go to the states where the oil and gas activity occurs-in this case New Mexico and Oklahoma-while the rest will go to the U.S. Treasury.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A former Woonsocket man arrested by members of the FBI Safe Streets Task Force during an investigation into the trafficking of drugs on the streets of Woonsocket was sentenced today to 77 months in federal prison.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: Today, Rep. Rick Allen (R-GA), Republican Leader of the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education, delivered the following opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at a subcommittee hearing on early childhood care and education programs...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A New Jersey man who allegedly befriended four minor females on social media, three in Rhode Island, and persuaded them to send sexually explicit photographs of themselves to him, then allegedly threatened to share the photographs on social media with their classmates and others if they didn’t continue to communicate with him, made an initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Providence today on child pornography and cyberstalking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - CRA/LA has agreed to pay $3.1 million to resolve allegations that its predecessor violated the False Claims Act by knowingly failing to comply with federal accessibility laws when it financed and assisted in the development of affordable housing in the City of Los Angeles supported by federal funds, the Department of Justice announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: JACKSON, Miss. - A south Mississippi man was sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison January 30 following his conviction for possessing and transporting child pornography. The sentencing follows a criminal investigation led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Jackson.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - A man charged with a 2015 murder occurring in Osage County pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to murder in the second degree, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: A patient recruiter was sentenced to 60 months in prison yesterday for receiving more than $1 million in illegal kickback payments from numerous home health agencies from around the country in exchange for providing information on Medicare beneficiaries to home health agencies, who then used that information to submit fraudulent claims to Medicare.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: CINCINNATI - A federal grand jury has charged a 78-year-old Cincinnati man with sexually exploiting a toddler.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man was sentenced to federal prison for armed drug trafficking crimes, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Kevin Huffman, 36, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.2 million grant to the Port of Newport, Oregon, to support the construction of a new pier, serving the largest commercial fishing fleet in the state. The EDA grant, to be matched with $1.2 million in local funds, is expected to help create 17 jobs, save 55 jobs, and generate nearly $4 million in private investment.
