News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - MICHAEL MORGANI, age 32, a resident of New Orleans, pleaded guilty on Jan. 29, 2020 to being a felon in possession of a firearm before United States District Judge Martin L.C. Feldman, announced U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: Eight alleged gang members were arrested in a large-scale takedown Thursday, charged with gun and drug crimes following an investigation led by the DEA Dallas Division, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Airbus SE (Airbus or the Company), a global provider of civilian and military aircraft based in France, has agreed to pay combined penalties of more than $3.9 billion to resolve foreign bribery charges with authorities in the United States, France and the United Kingdom arising out of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: A Grain Valley, Missouri, teenager ingested what he thought was just half of an oxycodone pill, and it nearly cost him his life.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - An Independence, Missouri, financial advisor pleaded guilty in federal court today to a fraud scheme in which he stole more than $1 million from two elderly clients.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A family medicine physician pleaded guilty today of drug distribution charges arising out of her prescription of opioid drugs from a medical clinic she operated in Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge Brian J. Davis has sentenced Jason Ryan Fain (38, Jacksonville) to six years in federal prison for possessing a USB thumb drive that contained videos and images depicting the sexual abuse of young children. Fain was also sentenced to serve a 10-year term of supervised release and ordered to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Dr. Parth Bharill, a Pittsburgh and Morgantown physician, was sentenced today to five years probation, with the first six months on home confinement, for a drug charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: ST. PAUL, Minn. - An Illinois man was indicted in federal court Friday on multiple charges related to sex trafficking.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, in response to the Trump administration’s announcement today that starting on Feb. 21, the U.S will begin restricting immigration by individuals from Nigeria, Eritrea, Myanmar (Burma), Kyrgyzstan, Sudan, and Tanzania, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, issued the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Otequise Lenard Miller, 34, of Concord, N.C. was sentenced today to 240 months in prison and five years of supervised release on drug trafficking conspiracy resulting in an overdose death and money laundering charges, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JASON GALANIS pled guilty today for his participation in multiple fraudulent schemes. In particular, GALANIS pled guilty for his role in a scheme to manipulate the market for Gerova Financial Group, Ltd.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, the House Managers for the impeachment trial of President Donald J. Trump issued the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that WILIAN ALEXANDER ORELLANA-LUNA, 40, a citizen of El Salvador last residing in West Haven, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to reentry of a removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: 5 Defendants Sentenced to a Total of 95 Years in Prison for Federal Violent Crime and Drug Offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: Fugitive Jose Armanda Betances Arrested in Dominican Republic.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today after Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai informed the Committee that the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau completed its investigation into wireless carriers’ unauthorized disclosure of real-time location data...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: In San Antonio this afternoon, former Castroville Animal Control Officer Ambrose Rymers admitted his role in a fraudulent insurance claim scheme involving 54-year-old former Castroville Police Chief Chris Filline and a third individual, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: A former Oakland County lawyer was sentenced yesterday, Jan. 30, 2020, to serve 70 months in federal custody on one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, and three counts of bank fraud, United States Attorney Matthew Schneider announced today.
