News from March 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - Tamika Anderson, a Georgia Division of Family and Children Services (“DFCS") employee, has pleaded guilty to aggravated identity theft after she stole more than 100 identities while employed at Georgia DFCS.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: Five North Carolina Law Enforcement Officers Graduate the FBI National Academy.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - As COVID-19 continues, Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH) praise the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s Keep Americans Connected pledge and the steps taken by individual private companies to make sure Americans have access to internet during this time.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - Florencio Rodriguez, a member of the Sureños 13 gang and multi-convicted felon, has been sentenced to consecutive, maximum terms of imprisonment for unlawfully possessing firearms, including a sawed-off shotgun with an obliterated serial number.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Van Williamson, 43, Madison, Wisconsin was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to eight years in federal prison for conspiring to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin. Williamson pleaded guilty to this charge on Dec. 10, 2019.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after the House voted on H.R. 2339, a tax hike bill Democrats’ claim might somehow stem teen vaping...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A parent in the college admissions case has pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced, a federal grand jury returned an indictment against Hanna N. DeCicco (age 22) of Milwaukee with Making a False Statement to a Federal Firearms Dealer, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(a)(6) and 924(a)(2) on July 10, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: WEAVERVILLE, Calif. - The Trinity River Restoration Program is changing two meetings scheduled for March 18 and 19 in Weaverville.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn announced that yesterday a jury sitting in U.S. District Court in Denver found former Veterans Affairs (VA) employee Joseph Prince, age 60, of Aurora, Colorado guilty of felony health care fraud, conspiracy, payment of illegal kickbacks and gratuities, money...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after President Trump announced that ADM Brett P. Giroir, M.D, Assistant Secretary for Health, will be appointed new “testing czar" for the federal government...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - This week, U.S. Senator Tom Carper, top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, proudly earned another 100 percent rating on the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) National Environmental Scorecard for his ongoing efforts to fight for clean air, safe drinking ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to one count each of conspiracy to defraud the Pennsylvania Medicaid program, health care fraud, and aggravated identity theft, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to one count each of conspiracy to defraud the Pennsylvania Medicaid program, health care fraud, and aggravated identity theft, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: John Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOSHUA BESAW, 36, of Thompson, Connecticut, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl last year.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A parent in the college admissions case has pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Two Hudson County, New Jersey, men were charged today with conspiring to use drones to smuggle contraband, including marijuana, steroids, syringes, cell phones and cell phone equipment, into the federal correctional facility at Fort Dix, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: Sentences. Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal sentenced LESLIE JANAE ROMERO, 38, of Colorado Springs, Colorado on March 11, 2020 for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Romero was arrested in Fort Collins, Colorado. She received seventy-six months of imprisonment, to be followed...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: “Thank you, Mr. Chairman. “And thank you, Secretary Mnuchin, for joining us here today. “If you talk to the Democrats running for president this year, these people are spreading horror stories about the current state of the American economy. “Sen. Bernie Sanders stated that the ‘average American worker...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - Florencio Rodriguez, a member of the Sureños 13 gang and multi-convicted felon, has been sentenced to consecutive, maximum terms of imprisonment for unlawfully possessing firearms, including a sawed-off shotgun with an obliterated serial number.
