News from June 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: Las Vegas Dentist Indicted on Income and Employment Tax Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - Special Agent in Charge Robert J. Bell, DEA Chicago Division, announced today that Lake County, Illinois, has been designated as a High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. The designation means Lake County will receive more resources to coordinate federal, state and local government efforts to fight drug trafficking and abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that the U.S. Attorney’s Office has reached a settlement agreement with 165 Main Street, Inc., doing business as the Strand Theater in Seymour, to resolve allegations that the theater facility is not in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (“ADA").
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man today admitted being a felon in possession of two firearms, and to distributing heroin and cocaine base (crack), U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will hold a virtual Drone Advisory Committee (DAC) meeting from noon to 3 p.m. EDT on Friday, June 19.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - An inmate serving a thirty-five year state prison sentence for second-degree murder has been charged with running a large-scale drug trafficking operation from his prison cell, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Tommie Thomas, 37, of Bakersfield, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd on Tuesday to 20 years and six months in prison for distribution of methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - A Hot Springs, Ark., man who pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas to felony methamphetamine distribution charges was sentenced to six years in federal prison June 15, 2020, following a criminal investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) with assistance from the 18th Judicial District East Drug Task Force (JDEDTF).
By DOE Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today voted in favor of the Great American Outdoors Act, which the Senate passed by a margin of 73 to 25. This conservation measure addresses deferred maintenance backlogs on federal land, including for national parks and national forests, and provides increased support for local recreational opportunities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - Three men were sentenced today in federal court in Boston for conspiracy to defraud the United States and mail fraud in connection with a scheme to obtain government contracts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: Nine pharmacists were charged in three separate indictments unsealed last week for their alleged participation in a $12.1 million health care fraud scheme executed in Detroit and southern Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Springfield man was indicted today by a federal grand jury on child pornography offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS -JESUS ADRIAN LEDESMA BERNAL, a/k/a JSS, age 31, and JULIO CESAR RIVERA ROJAS, a/k/a JCP, age 32, both residents and citizens of Mexico, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud before U.S. District Court Judge Jane Triche Milazzo of the Eastern District of Louisiana, announced U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice today announced the launch of the Civil Rights Reporting Portal. This new online tool will make it easier for the public to report a civil rights violation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Rochester, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 10 years (120 months) in prison to be followed by seven years of supervised release on his conviction of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - An inmate serving a thirty-five year state prison sentence for second-degree murder has been charged with running a large-scale drug trafficking operation from his prison cell, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney, Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Chairman James E. Clyburn, Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey, Small Business Committee Chairwoman Nydia Velázquez, and Appropriations Committee Subcommittee...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: Good News: Help for Patients to See Their Health-Care Providers for Non-COVID Treatments.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Waso Nam Flanagan, 53, a resident of Jackson County, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden, to willfully engaging in the business of dealing in firearms without a license, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, and Special Agent in Charge Kurt Thielhorn with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A former Coahuila, Mexico, governor has entered a guilty plea for his role in a money laundering scheme that includes offenses against a foreign nation involving bribery of a public official, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
