News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: WILMINGTON - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that over the course of the last several months in federal court, 32 defendants have been sentenced in a large-scale methamphetamine trafficking investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that two Rapid City, South Dakota, men convicted of Interference with Commerce by Robbery and Conspiracy were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A criminal complaint has been filed in federal court against a resident of Pittsburgh, Pa., charging him with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: For Possession With Intent To Distribute Methamphetamine and Being A Felon in Possession Of Firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - A Seaford man pleaded guilty today to filing a false tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: Defendant Fled To Mexico Before Being Apprehended and Returned to the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: DEVILS TOWER NATIONAL MONUMENT, WY - The National Park Service (NPS) recently published a report on advances in the use of scenario planning as a tool to evaluate the vulnerability of park features and develop potential management actions in light of climate change.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A cosmetic surgeon who oversaw a long-running health care fraud scheme that conned insurance companies into paying tens of millions of dollars for unnecessary cosmetic procedures has been extradited from Israel to serve a 20-year federal prison sentence issued while he was a fugitive.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: In Del Rio last night, a federal jury convicted 49-year-old Honduran National Leivin Pineda for illegal re-entry into the U.S. and assaulting a U.S. Border Patrol agent near Eagle Pass, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: Union Officials Plead Guilty to Violent Extortion.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that on Jan. 23, 2020, Chief United States District Judge John M. Gerrard sentenced Marvin Moua and Meng Her to terms of imprisonment of 151 months and 37 months, respectively. Moua, 35, and Her, 38, conspired together and with others to transport narcotics...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - An illegal alien from Mexico, Jesus Vega, 38, has been sentenced to 121 months in federal prison for conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the sentence today.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: SANTA FE, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) New Mexico is announcing a two-week public comment period on the environmental analysis for its May 21, 2020 oil and gas lease sale. There are 102 parcels (46,365.76 acres) of Federal minerals proposed for lease. The parcels are located in Eddy, Lea, Rio Arriba and Chaves counties, New Mexico, and Wise County, Texas. The comment period will run from Jan. 27-Feb. 7, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The owners of DC Solar, a Benicia-based company, pleaded guilty today to charges related to a billion dollar Ponzi scheme- the biggest criminal fraud scheme in the history of the Eastern District of California. The government’s investigation has resulted in the largest criminal forfeiture...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn announced that Safder Iqbal, age 28, an Indian national, was sentenced to serve 60 months (5 years) in federal prison followed by 3 years on supervised release for participating in several scams involving call centers. Iqbal was also ordered to pay $377,889.35 in restitution to the victims. He was remanded into custody immediately after the sentencing hearing. The Denver FBI joined in today’s announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, La. - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that JOHN ANTHONY MARSH, age 56, a resident of Lawrenceville, Georgia was sentenced on Jan. 22, 2020 by U.S. District Judge Martin L.C. Feldman to three years’ probation, with a condition that the first 45 days be served on home confinement, in connection with his guilty plea to identity theft. In addition, MARSH agreed to pay restitution to the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A 57-year-old Collinsville, Texas woman has been sentenced to prison for federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Timothy B. Pease, 30, of Kirkville, New York, was arrested yesterday on charges of transportation of child pornography following the execution of a search warrant at his residence by Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"), announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and James N. Hendricks, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: Defendant, a Fugitive for Over a Decade, Directed and Organized Cocaine Trafficking Operation Spanning Many Years and Multiple States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Turab Lookman, 67, of Sante Fe, New Mexico, and a former scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, pleaded guilty in federal court in Albuquerque today to a charge of making a false statement to a government investigator about his involvement in the Thousand Talents Program, an initiative by the Chinese government to recruit people with access to and knowledge of foreign technology and intellectual property.
