News from June 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: An Iranian-born, U.S. naturalized 40-year-old man who launched multiple international cyber-attacks on media, bloggers, and legal news aggregation websites was sentenced on Monday to five years in federal prison and ordered to pay more than $520,000 in restitution, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 50 months imprisonment and six years supervised release on his conviction of possession with intent to distribute heroin within 1000 feet of Allegheny Commons, a Pittsburgh Public Housing Authority development, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: Defendant Also Resisted Arrest and Ran From the Police While Handcuffed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: Former spokesman (2005-2009) scammed victims by posing falsely as covert CIA Officer involved in a highly-classified intelligence program.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn today announced that a Gambian man residing in Denver, Colorado was indicted on torture charges stemming from his actions specifically intended to inflict severe physical pain and suffering on individuals in his custody and control in The Gambia in 2006.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- One man was sentenced and another man pled guilty this week to being felons in possession of a firearm, according to United States Attorney Mike Stuart.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Webb City, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Newton County, Missouri.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS - A Billings woman accused of taking three people to the bus station in Billings for a trip to Georgia to engage in commercial sexual activity pleaded guilty to charges today, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: Ordered to Pay Nearly $1.2 Million in Restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY - June 11, 2020.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: Gettysburg, PA - Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, Gettysburg National Military Park is increasing access and services. The National Park Service (NPS) is working service-wide with federal, state, and local public health authorities to closely monitor the COVID-19 pandemic and using a phased approach to increase access on a park-by-park basis.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - U.S. Attorney John C. Anderson announced today the Department of Justice has awarded a combined $2,044,990 to the City of Albuquerque, the City of Espanola, the City of Gallup, the City of Rio Rancho, the County of Santa Fe and the County of San Juan as part of the Office of Justice Program’s Coronavirus Emergency Supplemental Funding Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that Dominic Davidson, 27, a former Correctional Officer with the Rapides Parish Sheriff’s Office (RPSO), Detention Center 1, in Alexandria, Louisiana, pleaded guilty today before Senior U.S. District Judge Dee D. Drell, to one misdemeanor count of using excessive force against a pretrial detainee housed at the facility.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built an online tool that could help decrease the concentration of aerosols containing the novel coronavirus in the hospital rooms of COVID-19 patients and other spaces such as offices, retail stores and residences, potentially reducing the likelihood of building occupants becoming infected.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A federal grand jury has indicted six members of an Atlantic City drug-trafficking organization for their roles in the distribution of large amounts of heroin in the Atlantic City area, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: The Department of Justice Files Statement of Interest in Support of Equal Treatment of Washington State Church Based on Recent Supreme Court Ruling.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: Former DEA Official Pleads Guilty to Elaborate $4 Million Fraud Scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve (Jean Lafitte NHP&P) is increasing recreational access. The National Park Service (NPS) is working...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Steven J. Russo, 43, of Pennsburg, PA, pleaded guilty today to wire fraud and filing false tax returns before United States District Court Judge Jeffrey L. Schmehl. The charges arose from Russo’s embezzlement of $2.79 million from his former employer, a company in Lancaster, PA, for which he served as the Director of Information Technology from November 2013 until October 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: An indictment was unsealed today charging nineteen individuals with conspiracy to illegally distribute prescription drugs, U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider announced today.
