News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Kelly D. Brady, Special Agent in Charge, ATF Boston Field Division, announced that JOSEPH RYAN, 56, of Trumbull, was arrested today on a federal criminal complaint charging him with knowingly providing firearms to a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: St. Louis, MO -Venita Sedodo, 32, of St. Charles, Missouri, pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud related to her former position as Treasurer of Velda City, Missouri, and two counts of mail fraud related to her former position as Trust Secretary for the Travelers Protective Association of America, Scholarship Trust for the Hearing Impaired. Sedodo appeared today in front of United States District Judge Stephen R. Clark who set her sentencing hearing for May 28, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal grand jury has charged Hassan and Abdurahim Nuriso, owners of the Somali specialty market Towfiq Market on Sullivant Avenue, with conspiring to commit food stamp and WIC fraud. The brothers redeemed more than $10 million in SNAP and WIC benefits at their store between 2010 and 2019.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today following the announcement from the Environmental Protection Agency that it will begin the process to regulate PFAS in drinking water...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today following the announcement from the Environmental Protection Agency that it will begin the process to regulate PFAS in drinking water...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Anthony Johnson, age 52, of York, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Feb. 20, 2020, by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo to 230 months’ imprisonment for his convictions on Hobbs Act robbery and firearms convictions.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) served five more immigration subpoenas today on the Hillsboro Police Department, Wasco County Sheriff’s Office, Oregon State Police and Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office, seeking information on illegal aliens who were criminally arrested...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that STEVEN C. GOLD, 47, of Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty today in Bridgeport federal court to fraud and conspiracy offenses stemming from his participation in two separate scheme that defrauded his Illinois-based company of more than $9 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: Munster Resident Receives 2019 FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: An Ohio physician who owned a Dayton-area medical practice pleaded guilty today for illegally distributing opioids.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Administrator Uttam Dhillon today announced that the DEA will direct enforcement resources to methamphetamine “transportation hubs" - areas where methamphetamine is often trafficked in bulk and then distributed across the country. While continuing...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene E. Honeywell has sentenced Cody Robert Schoh (23, Palm Harbor) to 7 years and 11 months in federal prison for receiving and possessing child pornography. The court also ordered Schoh to forfeit the electronic devices he had used in the commission of the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A federal grand jury in San Francisco indicted Vladislav Victorvic Timoshchuk with attempted transfer of a toxin for use as a weapon, mailing threatening communications, and mailing an injurious article, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Michael Scaduto, 33, of Littleton, Massachusetts, pleaded not guilty on Feb. 20, 2020, in United States District Court in Burlington, to a charge of assaulting a Border Patrol Agent. U.S. Magistrate Judge John M. Conroy released Scaduto on conditions pending trial, which has not been scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Maryland man was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for straw purchasing 35 firearms, including guns that were recovered by law enforcement after being used in violent crimes in Washington, D.C. and Maryland.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Melissa Babian, 40, of Milford, was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison for drug trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - A federal jury found a west Tennessee doctor guilty today for unlawfully distributing opioids to purported patients and to others who were never his patients. The defendant was charged in an April 2019 indictment as part of the first Appalachian Regional Prescription Opioid (ARPO) Strike Force Takedown, and this was the first trial guilty verdict for the ARPO Strike Force.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Wells Fargo & Company and its subsidiary, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., have agreed to pay $3 billion to resolve their potential criminal and civil liability stemming from a practice between 2002 and 2016 of pressuring employees to meet unrealistic sales goals that led thousands of employees...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - An Alabama man, Maxwell Hayslip, 27, was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison and ordered to pay a $20,000 fine on Friday by Chief United States District Judge Danny C. Reeves, after previously admitting to robbing five banks by intimidation in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 21, 2020
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska -The Bureau of Land Management will host the finish of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race Ceremonial Start March 7 at the BLM Campbell Tract. The Ceremonial Start is a spectator-friendly event where mushers and dogs interact with fans. The timed portion of the world’s most famous sled dog race begins March 8.
