News from February 2020
By State Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement on Saturday’s swearing in of South Sudan’s transitional government leadership including Riek Machar as first vice president:
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - An accounts payable clerk employed by a Providence small business that sells gifts and home décor items was arraigned in U.S. District Court in Providence today on charges he allegedly misappropriated approximately $302,000 of company funds for his own personal use and for use by an acquaintance.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Tristen Stoker, 21, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced in federal court in Omaha on Feb. 21, 2020, for Theft of Mail by a Postal Employee. United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. sentenced Stoker to time served. There is no parole in the federal system. Stoker will begin a 3-year term of supervised.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: During National Reading Month in March, visitors to Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site can “Read to a Goat." The program will be offered in the barn yard with books available for a wide range of reading levels. Visitors are invited to find a comfortable spot on a bench in the yard or in the pasture near the goats and practice early reading skills or simply enjoy reading aloud to the goat audience.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Lebanon, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter Strasser announced today that HECTOR SILVA-TOLENTINO, age 29, pleaded guilty on Feb. 18, 2020 to a one-count Bill of Information for illegal use of a social security number in violation of Title 42, United States Code, Section 408(a)(7)(B).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina ---- Acting United States Attorney A. Lance Crick announced today that Carlos Ravenel, 37, of North Charleston, and Gordon William Brock, 49, of Mount Pleasant, have each pleaded guilty in federal court to Distribution of Heroin and Fentanyl Resulting in Death.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - On Friday, Feb. 21, 2020, U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte sentenced Zhi Tian Lang, age 24, of Gaithersburg, Maryland, to 14 years in federal prison, followed by 15 years of supervised release, for receipt of child pornography and to extortion by threat to ruin the reputation...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: Portland, Maine: A Buckfield man was sentenced today in federal court in Portland for possession with intent to distribute more than 500 grams of cocaine, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that, following a six-week trial, a federal jury has convicted CBL/BFL Gang member Dalvon Curry, 23, of Buffalo, NY, of murder in aid of racketeering; racketeering and narcotics conspiracy; possession of firearms in furtherance of a crime of violence; and possession of firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. The charges carry a mandatory penalty of life in prison, and a $10,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ALJERMIAH MACK, a/k/a “Nuke," was sentenced to 204 months in prison in connection with his participation in the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods (“Nine Trey") and the distribution of narcotics, including heroin and fentanyl. MACK was convicted following a three-week jury trial in October 2019 before U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer, who imposed today’s sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: This agreement serves as a reminder that jury duty is the public’s civil obligation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Donna Mahar, 61, of Danvers, Massachusetts, was sentenced today for conspiracy to obstruct justice. District Judge Christina Reiss ordered defendant Mahar to a time-served (one day) incarcerative sentence, a six-month...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Henrico man was sentenced today to 57 months in prison for unlawfully prescribing Oxycodone and Tramadol to patients at a Richmond-area pain management practice.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - The former head coach of the men’s tennis team at the University of Texas at Austin (U-Texas) was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with accepting a $100,000 bribe to secure the admission of a purported student-athlete to the university.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - The former head coach of the men’s tennis team at the University of Texas at Austin (U-Texas) was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with accepting a $100,000 bribe to secure the admission of a purported student-athlete to the university.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - Three men pled guilty today for their participation in a drug trafficking operation in Raleigh County, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Nick Attilli, 38, of Beaver, pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of a substance containing methamphetamine and a quantity...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
Release: 86 Grants Will Support Scientific Innovation
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: A man illegally residing in the United States was sentenced in federal court Monday for attempting to persuade an 11-year-old online to engage in sexual activity. Two years earlier, the defendant also molested the child while she stayed at a friend’s house.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Ronald Garnett, 49, of North Platte, Nebraska, was sentenced on Feb. 24, 2020, to 84 months in prison by Senior United States District Judge Laurie Smith Camp for distribution of 5 grams or more of actual methamphetamine. There is no parole in the federal system. Upon his release from prison, Garnett will serve four years of supervised release.
