News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Paul Turnbull, age 53, of Cohoes, New York, was arrested on January 27 on charges of transporting child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - Yuly Cesar Perez-Sale is the last of 31 defendants to be sentenced in connection with four-related indictments alleging marriage fraud and other immigration offenses concerning fraudulent marriages between Cuban nationals and United States citizens, and undocumented aliens from the countries of Honduras, Mexico, Uruguay, Brazil, Peru, and Venezuela.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: Anthony Michael Assfy Faces a Mandatory Minimum of Twenty Years in Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: A federal jury in East Saint Louis returned a guilty verdict this morning in a case involving an.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Kwasi Francis (29, Ocala) today pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after the U.S. Senate passed the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), teeing up the new agreement to be signed into law...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: EUGENE, Ore.-Susan Tranberg, 61, of Eugene, Oregon, pleaded guilty today in federal court to mail fraud, aggravated identity theft and tax evasion after defrauding her former employer, the Weyerhaeuser Company, out of more than $4.5 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Michael Rushmer, age 48, of Johnson City, New York, was sentenced today to 300 months in prison for sexually exploiting a child, and for distributing and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: SAN DIEGO - DEA Acting Administrator Uttam Dhillon today announced the publication of the 2019 National Drug Threat Assessment, which outlines the threats posed to the United States by domestic and international drug trafficking and the abuse of illicit drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ROGER THOMAS CLARK, a/k/a “Plural of Mongoose," a/k/a “Variety Jones," a/k/a “VJ," a/k/a “cimon," pled guilty today to conspiring to distribute massive quantities of narcotics, a charge arising out of...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Top Democrats overseeing Social Security policy in the House and Senate today objected to a Social Security Administration (SSA) proposal that would cause people with disabilities to lose benefits if they are unable to navigate complex paperwork and red tape. Under the proposed rule,...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LUIS PITT, also known as “Macho," 24, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to 144 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for a kidnapping and violent assault he committed with four other members of the Almighty Latin Kings Nation (“Latin Kings").
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Dominican national arrested by Pawtucket Police in June 2018, when he and a fellow Dominican national were found to be in possession of stolen data from 18,000 credit cards along with a large array of equipment and materials used to produce fraudulent identification documents and credit cards, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: A Dallas charter school CEO was sentenced Thursday to more than seven years in federal prison for her role in a corruption scandal following an investigation by the FBI Dallas Field Office, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: AUGUSTA, ME - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently signed a two-year alliance with the Maine Department of Labor, Workplace Safety and Health Division (SafetyWorks!), and the Maine School of Masonry to promote worker safety in the masonry industry.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: For Conspiracy to Distribute More than One Kilogram of Heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: Ocala, FL - Stacey Lavette Hendricks (49, Leesburg) today pleaded guilty to aggravated identity theft and wire fraud. She faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison for the wire fraud offense, to be followed by a mandatory consecutive term of 2 years’ imprisonment for the identity theft offense. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Albert Thompson, 24, of Jackson, pled guilty today before Senior U.S. District Court Judge Tom S. Lee to possessing a firearm after having been previously convicted of a felony crime, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Michelle A. Sutphin, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: ARCATA, Calif. - The public is invited to attend a free discussion about non-native invasive plants - their impact on biodiversity and what people can do to address the issue - on Sunday, Feb. 9, at 3 p.m., at the Healy Center, 456 Briceland Road, in Redway.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced LARRY WILLIAMS (“LARRY WILLIAMS"), age 46, of New Orleans, LUCINDA THOMAS (“THOMAS"), age 63; MARY WADE (“WADE"), age 55; JUDY WILLIAMS (“JUDY WILLIAMS"), age 59; and DASHONTAE YOUNG (“YOUNG"), age 25; all of Houma, Louisiana...
