News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A former attorney was sentenced today to 88 months in prison for conspiring to defraud Virginia State Senator Richard Saslaw’s campaign account, a Canadian business, and an organization intended to support college students with autism and other intellectual disabilities out of more than $1.6 million.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-MO), and Republican Members of the Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to request a review of the billions of dollars in grant funding dedicated to combatting the opioid crisis.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: Manhattan Restauranteur Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion Scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: This afternoon park rangers were notified of a suicidal subject likely in Rocky Mountain National Park. The individual’s vehicle was located near Upper Beaver Meadows Road. While searching for the occupants of the vehicle, park rangers temporarily held traffic at the Beaver Meadows Entrance and Fall River Entrance on the east side of Rocky Mountain National Park. This occurred from approximately 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal grand jury in New Orleans, Louisiana, returned an indictment today charging three Louisiana residents with one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, 14 counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of a fraudulent tax return, three counts of wire fraud, and three...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: WACO, Texas - On Jan. 24, 2020, a federal jury convicted 27-year-old Francisco Resendez Martinez of Gonzales, California, for attempting to deliver approximately 21 pounds of methamphetamine from California to Waco, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and DEA Houston Division Acting Special Agent in Charge Steven S. Whipple.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: ASHLAND, Ky. - An Ashland man, Danny P. Chaffin Jr., 38, admitted to bank robbery in federal court Friday, before U.S. District Judge David L. Bunning.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Joseph Licata, 52, of Buffalo, NY, was charged by criminal complaint with bank robbery. The charge carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, a fine of $250,000, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- Acting United States Attorney A. Lance Crick announced today that Scott Dylan Green, Joseph Price Langford, Ricardo Dunbar, and James Clinton Gunter, Jr., all of Aiken County, were sentenced in federal court for their involvement in a methamphetamine and heroin conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: Defendant Misled Investors into Purchasing Artificially Inflated Stock in Publicly Traded Companies.
By State Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the State Department’s failure to meet a deadline for a request by the committee to turn over records related to a potential threat to the security of Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch before she was recalled from her post in Kyiv, Ukraine...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, announced he introduced a bipartisan bill that would require the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to establish a Cybersecurity State Coordinator program. The bill...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - New State Director Karen Mouritsen has joined Bureau of Land Management in California. Mouritsen started in her new position on Jan. 21.
By State Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement following a briefing from top U.S. global health experts:
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Michael T. Blajszczak, 53, of Clarence, NY, pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm by a person subject to a domestic violence order of protection before U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael J. Roemer. The charge carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a 250,000 fine.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) sent a letter to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) today urging the government watchdog to conduct an updated review of the National Telecommunications and Information...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 14 years' imprisonment and five years supervised release on her conviction of Health Care Fraud and the illegal distribution of prescription opioid pain medication, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
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 State Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Chairman Eliot Engel (D-NY) of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement on the introduction of the Leveraging Information on Foreign Traffickers (LIFT) Act, legislation to combat human trafficking.
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.
