News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Kansas building contractor pleaded guilty today to conspiring to deprive the city of Lawrence of sales tax revenues in connection with the development of a seven-story hotel adjacent to the University of Kansas campus.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: Knoxville, Tenn - U.S. Attorney J. Douglas Overbey announced today that the Eastern District of Tennessee collected $11,138,905.90 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2019. Of this amount, $9,007,943.97 was collected in criminal actions and $2,130,961.93 was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: Queens Woman Sentenced to 15 Years’ Imprisonment for Teaching and Distributing Information About Weapons of Mass Destruction.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: Had Two Prior Domestic Convictions. A convicted domestic abuser who beat and a strangled a woman and unlawfully possessed a gun was sentenced January 8, 2020, to more than a year in federal prison. Charles Dwayne Carter, age 28, from Dubuque, Iowa, received the prison term after an August 6, 2019 guilty...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Yesterday the President appointed Bryan S. Ware as the Assistant Director for Cybersecurity at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Since early 2019, Assistant Director Ware has been serving as the Department’s Assistant Secretary for Cyber, Infrastructure, and Resilience Policy.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement in reaction to a report by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration on 501c4 enforcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: A convicted domestic abuser who beat and a strangled a woman and unlawfully possessed a gun was sentenced January 8, 2020, to more than a year in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: Defendant’s criminal record includes convictions for drug and firearms violations, and shooting and killing two teenagers in Roxbury.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that JAMES RAIFORD, age 26, of New Orleans, was sentenced on January 7, 2020 to a term of 74 months for multiple violations of Hobbs Act Robbery, and one count of Attempted Hobbs Act Robbery. Additionally, the Honorable Wendy B. Vitter, U.S. District...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: Allegedly Claimed They Could Book Justin Timberlake and Bruno Mars To Perform at a Concert Benefitting the Sandy Hook Promise Foundation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Dominic Caputo, 48, of Clackamas County, Oregon, pleaded guilty today to making false statements while employed as a civilian program manager for the Oregon National Guard Oregon Sustainment Maintenance Site (OSMS).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2020
News Release: Filzen was on parole for felony burglary at the time fo the robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Fetehi Mohammed, 34, of Washington, D.C., who was a branch manager of a Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. in Alexandria, Virginia, was sentenced on Wednesday, January 8, 2020 to 33 months in prison for stealing funds from elderly customers’ accounts, depositing the funds in the form of cashiers’ checks into his personal accounts at another financial institution, and transferring stolen funds from Virginia to the District of Columbia for his use.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2020
News Release: Abingdon, VIRGINIA - Joseph Andrew Hobbs, a Wise County man who was one of 20 defendants charged with conspiring to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Abingdon to 228 months in federal prison, United States Attorney Thomas T. Cullen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - An Akron man pled guilty to a heroin charge, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Deangelo “O" Reeves, 34, pled guilty to possessing heroin with the intent to distribute it.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2020
News Release: PITTBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating the federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 8, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), as well as other Department of the Interior (DOI) agencies and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) have been sending wildfire personnel from across the country to assist with ongoing wildfire suppression efforts in Australia. The BLM in Arizona currently has four fire personnel in Australia with plans to send more in the coming weeks.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2020
News Release: Debra Becnel, a former correctional officer, pleaded guilty to making false statements in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1001, in connection with the federal investigation into the death of Nimali Henry, an inmate at the St. Bernard Parish Prison. Ms. Henry died in custody on Apr. 1, 2014, after she failed to receive medical treatment for her serious medical needs during her ten-day incarceration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2020
News Release: A Philadelphia-area doctor was sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison and ordered to pay a $100,000 fine yesterday for the illegal distribution of oxycodone.
