News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: Two Men Sentenced to Prison for Their Roles in an Investment Fraud Scheme Targeting Elderly Victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: Portland, Maine: A former Portland resident was convicted yesterday of accessing with intent to view child pornography following a three-day jury trial, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: DAYTONA, FL - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) announced a collaboration to encourage the development of advanced fuels and efficient technologies in motorsports. This collaboration was formalized through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that was announced at the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Series, hosted by IMSA in Daytona, FL.
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: U.S. Attorney Ariana Fajardo Orshan for the Southern District of Florida, Special Agent in Charge George L. Piro of the FBI’s Miami Field Office, Chief W. Howard Harrison of the Planation Police Department, and Chief Dale Engle of the Davie Police Department, announced that Joseph Isaiah Woodson, Jr....
By Interior Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will hold a meeting of the Utah Resource Advisory Council (RAC) on March 9-10, 2020, at the Best Western Plus Abbey Inn, 1129 S. Bluff Street, St. George, Utah 84770. The meeting will take place from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on March 9 and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on March 10. The public is welcome to attend the meeting.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Pawtucket man appeared in U.S. District Court in Providence today and admitted to a judge that he traveled to Canada in April 2019, to engage in illicit sexual activity with a 13-year-old female he befriended on social media.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: Knoxville, Tenn. - Joshua Small, 52, and Joni Amber Johnson, 36, both of Princeton, West Virginia, are scheduled for sentencing on Jan. 27, 2020, for their roles in a conspiracy to assault, kidnap and rob elderly victims The sentencing hearing is scheduled for 10:00 a.m. before the Honorable Chief Judge Pamela Reeves in the United States Courthouse in Knoxville.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: Defendant Stole Over $50,000, Purchasing Clothing, Electronics, Cookware, Gift Cards and Other Items.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: Knoxville, Tenn. - Family physician Dr. Chang-Wen Chen and his practice Chang-Wen Chen, M.D., P.C. paid $285,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by improperly charging government health care programs the physician’s rate for services that were provided by nurse practitioners. The allegations challenged billings submitted to Medicare, Medicaid (“TennCare") and TRICARE from 2013 through 2019.
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: In San Antonio this morning, a federal judge sentenced a former Del Rio Sector U.S. Border Patrol agent assigned to the Uvalde Station to 50 years in federal prison for producing and possessing child pornography, 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: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell, III today sentenced Maximo Gondres-Medrano, age 35, of Baltimore, Maryland, to 10 years and one month (121 months) in federal prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, on the federal charge of possession with intent to distribute more than 400 grams of fentanyl and heroin. Gondres-Medrano was convicted on October 9, 2019, after a three-day jury trial.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 142,428 metric tons of corn for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2019/2020 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Brian Quilly Lozon, 40, of Plummer, Idaho, pleaded guilty to strangulation of an intimate partner, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today. Sentencing for Lozon is set for April 10, 2020, before U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill at the federal courthouse in Coeur d’Alene.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Timothy Herndon, age 29, of Owings Mills, Maryland, pleaded guilty on Jan. 22, 2020 to possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - The former host of a cable hunting show, Christopher Brackett, of East Peoria, Ill., and the owner of a waterfowl outfitting service, Rick A. Hamm, of Chillicothe, Ill., have each been banned from hunting during their respective terms of probation. Both central Illinois men were sentenced in separate, unrelated cases for federal hunting violations of the Lacey Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Jere Wipfli, 48, Nekoosa, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 72 months in federal prison for illegally possessing a sawed-off shotgun. Wipfli pleaded guilty to this charge on Aug. 16, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Last night, as part of the House Judiciary Committee's lawsuit to compel former White House Don McGahn to testify before the Committee, the General Counsel to the House of Representatives informed the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit that the Trump Administration is taking ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Luis Taveras pleaded guilty to attempt to commit obstruction of justice murder. The plea proceeding took place before United States District Judge Roslynn R. Mauskopf. When sentenced, Taveras faces up to 30 years in prison.
