News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: Had a Sawed-Off Shotgun in the Car and a Handgun in His Hotel Room.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL PARK: Join members from several astronomical societies as they share their telescopes and introduce visitors to the night sky on Saturday, Jan. 18, from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm Central Time at Indiana Dunes National Park’s Kemil Beach parking lot. Kemil Beach is one of the darkest locations in the national park and is ideal for stargazing. This program is outside so please dress for the weather.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Nancy Jean and Carissa Scott with a scheme to defraud concert investors by falsely claiming to act as booking agents for well-known entertainers, including Justin Timberlake and Bruno Mars. The defendants were arrested yesterday...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: A St. Louis resident was sentenced to 48 months in prison today for his role in a tax fraud scheme, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Jeffrey B. Jensen for the Eastern District of Missouri.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: For Filing False Claims. HAMMOND - United States Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II announced today the filing of a civil Medicare fraud complaint against physician Conrado Castor, age 74, of Schererville, Indiana, American Home Health Services, Inc. of Schererville, Indiana and its owners, Aurea Duncan, age...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) sent a letter to Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf expressing concern that the agency’s failure to consult with the Tohono O’odham Nation on the construction of the border wall is disrespectful and threatens tribal lands and sacred sites.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson sentenced DANIEL ISAAC VASQUEZ MORENO, 30, of El Salvador on January 6, 2020 for illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien into the United States. Moreno was arrested in Gillette, Wyoming. He received four months of imprisonment, to be followed by deportation...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Michael Greco, 24, of Gates, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with online enticement of a minor. The charge carries a minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr., today announced that Mohammed Alawi, 52, of Lackawanna, N.Y., was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession with intent to distribute, ...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: In celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Superintendent Scott Tucker is pleased to announce that the entrance fee to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) will be waived on Monday, Jan. 20, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, Asia Siddiqui was sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment by United States District Judge Sterling Johnson Jr. for her role in planning to build a bomb for use in a terrorist attack in the United States. Siddiqui and her co-defendant, Noelle...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Susan A. Gibson, and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Craig Carpenito, announced three New Jersey men were charged with possession of cocaine and heroin with intent to distribute.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman John Lewis (D-GA) released the following statement calling for the immediate appointment of a permanent National Taxpayer Advocate and emphasizing the importance of the position at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Sherri Walker Hobson (619) 961-0287.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Steven Pagartanis was sentenced by United States District Judge Joan M. Azrack to 170 months’ imprisonment and ordered to pay more than $6.5 million in restitution. Pagartanis, a former registered investment advisor based on Long Island, pleaded guilty in December 2018 to conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud for orchestrating a securities fraud scheme over the course of 18 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: Man’s Third Federal Felony Conviction in Ten Years.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
Release: LINTHICUM, Md. - Transportation Security Administration officers at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) caught a Harford County, Maryland, man with a 9 mm handgun loaded with seven bullets at a security checkpoint this morning. It was the first gun that TSA officers caught so far this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A federal grand jury issued a superseding indictment charging Robert Manning and Jamare Coats for their respective roles in the March 23, 2019, shootout at the Fillmore Heritage Center, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of Investigation, Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. U.S. Attorney Anderson announced the charges as part of a press conference scheduled to coincide with Law Enforcement Appreciation Day (LEAD).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Malaquia Guillermo, 52, of Lawrence, Massachusetts was found guilty of participating in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced quenchelle houpe, 22, and her father BRIAN HOUPE, SR., of Wilson, North Carolina to 39 months imprisonment each, followed by three years of supervised...
