News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On Jan. 24, 2020, Roberto Ramirez, 23, of Tucson, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jennifer G. Zipps to 204 months in prison. Ramirez previously pleaded guilty on August 8, 2019, to one count of Transportation of Illegal Aliens for Profit Placing in Jeopardy of Life, three separate counts of Assault on a Federal Officer with a Deadly Weapon, and one count of Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: BALTIMORE - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake today sentenced Malik Moseley, age 28, of Baltimore, Maryland, to seven years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Moseley was charged as part of the federal-state initiative announced in December 2018 to combat the fentanyl crisis in Maryland.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: Caused a Tax Loss of Over $3.4 Million.
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 Interior Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: Glen Jean, West Virginia - Nature can be a great inspiration! Local students can celebrate their creativity and interest in nature through the Youth Arts in the Parks 2020 Appalachian Spring Wildflower Art Contest. Now is the time for students to get their entries in, for the online contest entry window...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: The storm debris removal project at Fort Pulaski National Monument will resume on Monday, February 3rd. Project work is winding down in in the areas north and west of historic Fort Pulaski. While the North Pier and Lighthouse Trails will remain open, the nature trail, John Wesley Monument, and portions of the dike system will be closed for visitor safety. Please stay out of marked closed areas while work is in progress.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Ridgeview, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Springfield man was sentenced today in federal court in Springfield in connection with various fraud schemes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: Former Major at Angola Prison Convicted of Beating a Handcuffed and Shackled Inmate.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that yesterday in federal court, Chief United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced NATHANIEL JOSEY, 61, of Wilmington, North Carolina, to 84 months imprisonment, followed by 4 years of supervised release. On April 2, 2019...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is announcing next steps for implementing the APHIS Core Message Set in the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE).APHIS and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) work together to keep damaging plant pests ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Maurice Brown, a member of the “Bushwick Crew," a drug-trafficking enterprise based in Brooklyn and Queens, pleaded guilty before United States District Judge Kiyo A. Matsumoto to participating in a racketeering conspiracy and murdering Gary Lopez and Rudy...
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: Defendant caused over $500,000 in losses to various banks and credit card companies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: After more than 40 years of devoted federal service, Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area’s superintendent, Bill Cox, retired Jan. 3, 2020. Bill’s federal career is truly commendable. He began his career in 1997 working first as a Student Conservation Aid and then as a seasonal park ranger for...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national previously residing in Springfield was sentenced on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020, in federal court in Springfield for his role in a large-scale heroin trafficking organization.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: Dear Acting Secretary Wolf: . We write to express our deep concern with the Trump Administration’s new asylum programs, Prompt Asylum Claim Review (PACR) and the Humanitarian Asylum Review Process (HARP). Both programs appear designed to deny asylum-seekers access to counsel while rushing vulnerable...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - DWAYNE BROWN, age 34, a resident of Laplace, Louisiana, was indicted for being a felon in possession of ammunition, announced U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Colombian national was sentenced today to 87 months in prison for his leadership of a seven-year fraud and identity theft conspiracy that victimized more than 350 people and caused losses of nearly $2 million.
