News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Two Greensboro, North Carolina, business owners pleaded guilty today to failing to pay over employment taxes to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Matthew G.T. Martin for the Middle District of North Carolina.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: Washington - Vice President Mike Pence today praised the Grassley-Wyden Prescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act and reiterated President Donald Trump’s commitment to passing their bipartisan bill and signing it into law. Last night in his State of the Union address, Trump praised Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley’s (R-Iowa) work to lower prescription drug prices and called on Congress to pass bipartisan drug cost legislation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: Spokane - William D. Hyslop, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced today that Richard Ronald Wells, age 71, of Spokane, Washington and Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, was sentenced after having pleaded guilty on April 30, 2019, to six counts of mail fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, one count of money laundering, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: Join us at Pipe Spring National Monument for an hour-long program dedicated to the history of winter constellations and their meanings to the Southern Paiute people, Friday February 28th, at 7:00 p.m. Mountain Standard Time. Topics covered will be constellations and planets viewable in the winter season...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: Statement Clarifying the FBI’s Role in the Criminal Investigation of the Virginia Beach Municipal Center Shooting.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey today delivered the following remarks to the House Rules Committee in support of an appropriate rule for the House to consider, an emergency supplemental appropriations bill to provide support to Puerto Rico following a series of recent earthquakes.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - David Clay Fowlkes, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas announced that Matthew Barnes, age 29, from Bentonville, Arkansas was sentenced to 77 months imprisonment followed by 3 years supervised release and Sonia Werline, age 24, from Fayetteville...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: Ahead of this week’s vote on the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, Rep. Fred Keller (R-PA), Republican Member of the Education and Labor Committee, penned an op-ed for the Williamsport Sun-Gazette highlighting the many devastating impacts the PRO Act will have on our nation’s workers and job creators.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Danielle Lynn McCarty, of Shinnston, West Virginia, was sentenced today to five years probation and 125 hours of community service for a firearms charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS-A Busby man who admitted assaulting an elderly woman in her 80s as she tried to break up a fight was sentenced today to five years and three months in prison, three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $26,599 restitution for Medicare, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: GREAT FALLS - Two Mexico citizens who were arrested in Glacier County by Border Patrol agents investigating suspected alien smuggling from Canada pleaded guilty on Tuesday to illegally transporting aliens, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. David C. Weiss, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that William A. Brown (“Brown") was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Leonard P. Stark to 12 months’ incarceration for wire fraud on Jan. 29, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Christopher Louis Hooker (25, Orlando) today pleaded guilty to interference with commerce by robbery. He faces up to 20 years in federal prison. Last week, three co-defendants, Carlos Eduardo Hampton, Jr. (22, Tampa), Quintin Eugene Augustus (18, Cocoa), and Jonathan Arthur Floyd (21, of Cocoa), entered guilty pleas in connection with the 2019 robberies of two central Florida Rural King stores.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Florida man pled guilty in U.S. District Court in Providence today to bank fraud, ID theft, and mail theft charges, admitting that he executed a scheme to order then steal debit cards and PINs from mailboxes in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, then used them at ATMs in both states to withdraw funds from individuals’ bank accounts without their knowledge.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Union County, New Jersey man who was previously convicted of several felonies admitted that he possessed and intended to distribute drugs and that he possessed a handgun to aid his drug distribution, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Shawn Morse, age 52, the former Mayor of Cohoes, New York, was sentenced today to two years of probation, 200 hours of community service, a $3,000 fine, and forfeiture of $12,250, for defrauding his supporters by stealing campaign contributions for his personal benefit.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A federal jury found a Montana man guilty Tuesday for his role as a broker for a Swiss company involved in a multimillion-dollar international fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Timothy Chischilly, 48, and Stacy Yellowhorse, 48, of Mexican Springs, New Mexico, appeared in federal court in Albuquerque on Feb. 4 for detention hearings on a criminal complaint charging them with murder. A federal magistrate judge ordered them to remain in custody pending trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: DEL RIO, Texas - On Feb. 5, 2020, a federal judge sentenced 40-year-old Bryan Torres, aka “Doughboy," of Houston to 20 years in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for his role in a methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Houston Division...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) selected four new industry partners to participate in a new wildfire sensors workstream of the Smart Cities Internet of Things Innovation (SCITI) Labs. The SCITI Labs Initiative brings together an expansive...
