News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - Two Topeka men were sentenced today on federal carjacking charges, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: Media Advisory. DURANGO, Colo. - The Bureau of Reclamation invites members of the press and public to a meeting to continue negotiations with the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority. The purpose of these negotiations is to agree to terms for an operations, maintenance and replacement contract for the federally-owned...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Lawrence Warfel, 76, of Moberly, was sentenced to 24 months in prison for aggravated identity theft. Warfel appeared before U.S. District Court Judge Henry A. Autrey who ordered him to pay restitution in the amount of $11,688.11.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued a statement following the announcement of a proposed rule by the Trump administration that would, among other changes, remove existing U.S Department of Health and Human Services requirements that faith-based providers let individuals know alternative providers are available to access services...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: Former Gwinnett County Deputy Arraigned on Excessive Force and Obstruction Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden County, New Jersey, man today admitted sending obscene material to minors over the internet, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: A Detroit resident was convicted by a federal jury today on charges of sex trafficking using force and coercion, distribution of controlled substances, and maintaining a drug premises, announced United States Matthew Schneider.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Glenn Randall Ferguson, age 48, of Muskogee, Oklahoma, was found guilty by a federal jury of Possession Of Certain Material Involving The Sexual Exploitation Of Minors, in violation of Title 18...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Valentino Shine, Sr., 52, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted following a jury trial of five counts of sex trafficking, and one count each of sex trafficking conspiracy, narcotics conspiracy, using and maintaining a drug-involved...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that STEVEN A. FINKLER, 55, of New Haven, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to credit card fraud and identity theft offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - Two Topeka men were sentenced today on federal carjacking charges, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden County, New Jersey, man today admitted sending obscene material to minors over the internet, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: In San Antonio this morning, a federal judge sentenced 46-year-old former pharmaceutical sales representative Holly Blakely, of San Antonio, TX, to 30 months in federal prison for a Bribery/Health Care Fraud scheme that netted her over $1 million, announced U.S. Attorney John Bash, FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division, and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: Superseding Indictment Charges Man for Making Threats Against a Maryland Synagogue.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: EUGENE, Ore.-Brandon Michael Vanderploeg, 39, of Winchester Bay, Oregon, was sentenced today to 18 months in federal prison and two years’ supervised release for assaulting his then-girlfriend aboard a fishing vessel in August 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr. announced today that Gregory Gibbons, 54, of Mobile, Alabama, who was convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud affecting a financial institution, was sentenced to time served by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. The defendant was also ordered to pay restitution totaling $1,458,847.90 to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, CitiBank, and M&T Bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury today returned a superseding indictment charging Stephen Lyle Orback, age 65, on the federal charges of intentionally attempting to obstruct persons in the free exercise of their religious beliefs through the threatened use of force, and making threatening communications, specifically multiple telephone calls threatening a synagogue.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal criminal complaint has been filed charging three alleged members of the racially motivated violent extremist group “The Base" with firearms and alien-related charges. The complaint charges Brian Mark Lemley, Jr., age 33, of Elkton, Maryland, and Newark, Delaware, and William...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON -The National Park Service (NPS) has selected Guest Services, Inc. to provide services at James Creek Marina, along the Anacostia River, in Washington, D.C., for the next 10 years. The new contract began on Jan. 1, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2020
News Release: DAYTON - Julian Patino-Espinoza, 29, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 36 months in prison for illegally reentering the United States and violating supervised release from his prior federal illegal reentry conviction.
