News from June 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington today sentenced Marquese Jerrodda Allen (43, St. Petersburg) to 16 years and 8 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Allen was sentenced under the Armed Career Criminal Act, in light of his lengthy criminal history. He was found guilty following a bench trial on Dec. 2, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Douglas Haig, 57, of Mesa, Arizona, was sentenced today to 13 months in federal prison for manufacturing ammunition without a license, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada and Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse of the FBI’s Las Vegas Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn announced today that a former Colorado state district court judge, Ryan Kamada, age 41, of Windsor, Colorado, pleaded guilty to obstructing a federal task force investigation of a large-scale cocaine trafficking organization. Kamada learned about the investigation in his official capacity as a judge and then disclosed details of the investigation to a friend, who then tipped off the target individual.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: Two owners of Guam Medical Transport (GMT) were sentenced to prison terms today for their roles in a health care fraud and money laundering scheme that resulted in a loss to the United States of approximately $10.8 million, one of the largest single Medicare ambulance fraud cases ever prosecuted by the Justice Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned six indictments charging nine defendants during the past week. The indictments include charges of drug trafficking, sexual exploitation of minors, firearms offenses, obstruction of justice, and carjacking, announced W. Stephen Muldrow, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Suffolk man was sentenced today to 30 years in prison for assault with intent to commit murder and discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence, stemming from a May 2019 shooting in the Great Dismal Swamp, a National Wildlife Refuge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Austin Pratt, age 23, of Syracuse, was arraigned today on an indictment filed by a federal grand jury charging him with Sexual Exploitation of a Child and Distribution of Child Pornography, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, Thomas F. Relford, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and New York State Police Superintendent Keith Corlett.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior and Environment Chairwoman Betty McCollum (D-MN) released the following statement today in response to the Environmental...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: Fredonia, AZ - Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, Pipe Spring National Monument is increasing recreational access and services. The National Park Service (NPS) is working servicewide with federal, state...
By State Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
Release: The COVID-19 pandemic has had specific adverse impacts on persons with disabilities, who constitute one-fifth of the global population. Some of the challenges and overt discrimination persons with disabilities encounter may not make the local news, and without access to family or friends nearby to observe...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: OAKLAND - Daniel Joseph Feliciano was sentenced today to 25 years in prison for producing child pornography, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Tatum King. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Jeffrey S. White, U.S. District Judge.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: SIMI VALLEY, Calif. - Work crews at the Energy Technology Engineering Center (ETEC) are mobilizing for demolition of 10 buildings at the former nuclear and liquid metals research site in Southern California.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Yesterday, House Budget Committee Chairman John Yarmuth, House Appropriations Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey, and House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney pressed Administration officials to fully cooperate with inquiries by the independent and nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) about the Administration’s hold on funding for the World Health Organization (WHO).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - The former second in command of the Massachusetts Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (“Latin Kings") pleaded guilty today to racketeering and drug conspiracy charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a federal criminal complaint against MATTHEW SCOTT WHITE, 31, charging him with arson. MATTHEW WHITE, who was arrested on June, 29, 2020, made his initial appearance earlier today before Magistrate Judge Hildy Bowbeer in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Seattle doctor was taken into custody today on allegations that he fraudulently sought over $3 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Theodore Martin, age 57, formerly of York County, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 13 months’ imprisonment to be followed by two years of supervised release by Chief United States District Court...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: Defendant previously deported four times. BOSTON - A Dominican national was charged yesterday with unlawfully reentering the United States after being deported. Pedro Wilson Hernandez-Castillo, 49, who resided in Worcester, was charged in a criminal complaint with one count of unlawful reentry of a...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: KEYSTONE, SD: The Department of the Interior, National Park Service and State of South Dakota look forward to hosting South Dakota’s Mount Rushmore Fireworks Celebration 2020 on July 3, which will be attended by President Donald J. Trump, U.S. Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt and the Governor...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: Four sitting Toledo City Council members and one local attorney were charged in a criminal complaint today for their participation in a bribery and extortion scheme that encouraged soliciting and/or accepting cash, checks, money orders, or other things of value from local business owners in exchange for their votes on City Council.
