News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Robert Leon Sullivan, of Steubenville, Ohio, was sentenced today to 46 months incarceration for a cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl distribution operation, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that Rapid City, South Dakota, man was charged in federal district court with Sexual Exploitation of a Minor and Possession of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- A Decatur, Ill., man, Daniel C. Miner, Jr., 53, has been sentenced for bankruptcy fraud. On Jan.16, 2020, U.S. District Judge Sue E. Myerscough ordered Miner to serve weekends in jail for six months of a three-year term of supervised release. Miner was also ordered to pay a fine of $5,500 and to pay $5,242 in restitution.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA -On Jan. 21, 2020, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania announced that a New Jersey woman entered a plea of guilty before a United States District Court Judge to seven counts of mail fraud and four counts of aggravated identity theft arising from a scheme...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - This morning, the House Managers in the impeachment trial of the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump - Adam Schiff, Jerrold Nadler, Zoe Lofgren, Hakeem Jeffries, Val Demings, Jason Crow, and Sylvia Garcia - sent a letter to White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, who will be lead counsel for the President in his impeachment trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: GUILTY PLEA - RAMON MENDOZA-VILLEGAS. On Jan. 16, Ramon Mendoza-Villegas, 44, pled guilty to possession with the intent to distribute a controlled substance, aiding and abetting. When Dallas Police Officers conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle in which Mendoza was a passenger, they found methamphetamine...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Boston man today admitted to participating in a scheme to defraud senior citizens across the country by persuading them to send significant cash payments to various addresses in Rhode Island to secure the release of a relative from jail, purportedly arrested after being involved in a motor vehicle accident.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: COOLIDGE, AZ - On Jan. 29, 2020 Casa Grande Ruins will host Madeleine Ostwald as part of its annual speaker series. The presentation will begin at noon on January 29 featuring Madeleine Ostwald who will present a lecture titled "Native Bees of the Sonoran Desert". The speaker series will continue every Wednesday at noon through March 11.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: Washington - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today released the following joint statement regarding a digital services tax agreement between the U.S. and France.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced today the sentencing of Byron A. Lawson, age 40, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as part of Operation Hidden Fee, an extensive federal, state, and local investigation by the Middle District Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) aimed at a drug trafficking network based and operating in Baton Rouge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of DILLON GEORGE TAYLOR, 21, to 52 months in prison for assaulting three individuals with a firearm and violating his supervised release conditions. TAYLOR, who pleaded guilty on Oct. 22, 2019, was sentenced today before Chief Judge John R. Tunheim in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Steven Walters, 52, of St. Peters, Missouri, was sentenced to six months in prison, 90 days of home confinement and three years of supervised release in prison for embezzling from an employee benefit plan. Walters appeared in federal court today before U.S. District Judge Rodney Sippel.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: MOAB, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Moab Office is partnering with Raptor Inventory Nest Survey (RINS) on raptor monitoring efforts. RINS offers volunteers a unique opportunity to learn about Utah’s eagles, hawks, falcons and owls. A training workshop for individuals interested in volunteering will be held Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020 in Moab, Utah.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Kenneth Tribett, of Bellaire, Ohio, was sentenced today to 18 months incarceration for a firearms charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: Census Takers Begin Counting Remainder of 220 Remote Alaska Villages as Part of National Headcount.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) announced that eight faculty members from Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) across the United States were recently selected to receive funding awards totaling $373,000 to continue their 2019 Summer Research Team (SRT) Program for Minority Serving Institutions research projects at several DHS S&T Centers of Excellence (COE).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - Two residents of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday to one count each of conspiracy to defraud the Pennsylvania Medicaid program and health care fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - First Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams and Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division announced that Timothy Shawl, M.D., 60, of Garnet Valley, PA entered a plea of guilty before United States District Court Judge R. Barclay Surrick on five counts of unlawful distribution of controlled substances.
By State Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
Release: More information about Timor-Leste is available on the Timor-Leste country page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: MIAMI, FL - Three former co-owners and clinical directors of a group of purported substance abuse treatment centers and sober homes were sentenced to prison today for their roles in a conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud that resulted in an actual loss of more than $3.8 million, and through which the conspirators sought to obtain more than $21 million.
