News from June 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: Wisconsin Department of Justice was awarded $1,000,000.00.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: GREAT FALLS-A Cut Bank man who admitted posting messages on a website offering to trade child pornography and illegally possessing firearms was sentenced on Monday to five years in prison and 10 years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: Local Junior High School Wins National FBI Safe Online Surfing (S.O.S.) Award.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - A London woman, Wilma Thompson, 41, was sentenced in on Friday, to 18 months in federal prison, by U.S. District Judge Claria Horn Boom, for obtaining a controlled substance through the registration of another and identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Eric LaFrance, 34, of Westfield, Massachusetts, was arrested yesterday for unlawful possession of a firearm during an ATF undercover operation in Brattleboro, Vermont. LaFrance appeared before the Honorable John M. Conroy, United States Magistrate Judge, this afternoon, and was ordered detained pending a detention hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: Stole More Than $9 Million Over 20 Years.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: In San Antonio today, Richard Medina, Sr., admitted to the preparation of false U.S. Income Tax Returns which contained fraudulent deductions and making a false statement in U.S. bankruptcy proceedings, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and IRS-Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Goss, Houston Field Office.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: NAPA, Calif. - Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and local public health authorities, the Bureau of Reclamation is increasing recreational access at Lake Berryessa.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - Columbia Gas of Massachusetts (CMA) was sentenced today in connection with the gas explosions on Sept. 13, 2018, in Lawrence, Andover and North Andover that killed one individual, injured 22, and damaged homes and businesses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A husband and wife from Burlington County, New Jersey, were charged today with conspiring to defraud more than 33 victims into mailing and wiring more than $6 million to them and other conspirators after their conspirators met and wooed the victims on online dating sites, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr. announced today that a joint team of more than 200 federal, state, and local law enforcement officers arrested fourteen people who have all been charged in federal court for their roles in an alleged violent drug trafficking ring in the Midlands area of South Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A prior sex offender in Carthage, Missouri, who impregnated a 14-year-old victim, was sentenced in federal court today for the sexual exploitation of a child.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Special agents with the FBI this morning arrested Jose Huizar, an elected member of the Los Angeles City Council, on a federal racketeering charge that alleges he led a criminal enterprise that used his powerful position at City Hall to solicit and accept lucrative bribes and other financial...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Boston man who participated in a scheme to defraud senior citizens by persuading them to send significant cash bail payments to various addresses in Rhode Island to secure the release of a relative they claimed had been arrested and was in jail, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Providence to three years’ probation, ordered to perform 150 hours of community service, and pay restitution to his victims in the amount of $31,500.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued this statement following an announcement from Dr. Steve Dillingham, Director of the Census Bureau, informing Census Bureau staff about additional political appointees joining the Bureau’s policy team. Today’s appointments signal an unprecedented politicization of the Census Bureau...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: GREAT FALLS-A Cut Bank man who admitted posting messages on a website offering to trade child pornography and illegally possessing firearms was sentenced on Monday to five years in prison and 10 years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - United States Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger and the Department of Justice‘s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) today announced nearly $42 million in funding to support state-level law enforcement agencies in combating the illegal manufacturing and distribution of methamphetamine, heroin, fentanyl, carfentanil, and prescription opioids, including $1 million to the Virginia State Police.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-A former accountant from Northeast Arkansas was sentenced today for bank fraud after stealing more than $9 million from his client in Trumann, Arkansas. Edward Cooper, 71, of Mammoth Springs, was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison by Chief U.S. District Judge D.P. Marshall, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Richard Alvarado, age 26, of Oswego, New York, appeared yesterday in federal court on charges that he distributed and possessed child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for methamphetamine trafficking and illegally possessing numerous firearms.
