News from March 2020

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - Gerald D. Harris, a former supervisor in DeKalb County’s Tax Commissioner’s Office, allegedly accepted bribe payments from customers to register unlawfully vehicles and then tried to blackmail a bribe payer by threatening to inform on her to the FBI.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Mexican Mafia member and “shotcaller" of the Santa Fe Springs and Whittier-based Canta Ranas street gang was sentenced today to life plus an additional 30 years in federal prison for leading the wide-ranging criminal enterprise and for murdering a rival gangster at a San Gabriel Valley restaurant in 2016.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Amanda Griffith (619)546-8970 and Janet Cabral 546-8715.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Melanie K. Pierson (619) 546-7976.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: Readout of Southwest Border U.S. Attorneys Visit To Mexico.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: Washington D.C. - On Wednesday, March 4, 2020, Rep. Gerry Connolly, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, will hold a hearing to examine whether programs at the General Services Administration (GSA) designed to facilitate the modernization of existing technologies and the adoption of new technologies are delivering solutions efficiently, securely, and in a cost-effective manner.

By Homeland Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
Release: ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - A Salem, New Jersey, woman was caught with a.380 caliber handgun loaded with six bullets by a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer at Atlantic City International Airport on Friday, Feb. 28.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - KEITH LAMAR CARTER, 38, of Oklahoma City, has been arrested and charged with robbing the Credit Union One bank, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Christopher P. Tenorio (619) 546-8413.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former Gardena Police officer was sentenced today to 33 months in federal prison for scheming to purchase “off-roster" firearms not available to the general public and then illegally reselling the firearms for profit.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: Includes More Than 50 Bills Reflecting the Priorities of More Than 60 Members

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: In San Antonio today, 52-year-old Scherry Lynn Moses pleaded guilty federal charges in connection with a scheme that fraudulently billed Medicaid for services not rendered and for stealing benefits from Social Security recipients, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Cherish Elissa Kofonis, 35, of Theodore, was sentenced on Feb. 18, 2020, on her guilty plea to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. She entered the guilty plea in November of 2019.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - KEITH LAMAR CARTER, 38, of Oklahoma City, has been arrested and charged with robbing the Credit Union One bank, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Two Chinese nationals were charged with laundering more than $100 million worth of cryptocurrency from a hack of a cryptocurrency exchange. The funds were stolen by North Korean actors in 2018, as detailed in the civil forfeiture complaint also unsealed today.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON-Reps. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee; Doug Collins (R-GA), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee; Hank Johnson (D-GA), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet; and Martha Roby (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee ...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: SANTA FE, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has scheduled a public scoping period for input on 20 parcels (3,405.84 acres) of Federal minerals proposed for the August 2020 competitive oil and gas lease sale. The public scoping period will begin March 9, 2020 and conclude on March 20, 2020. The lease sale is tentatively scheduled for August 26-27, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that Christopher L. Gordon, 36, of Kaktovik, Alaska, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Beistline to serve three months in federal prison, to be followed by a one-year term of supervised release, after pleading guilty to...

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Jaclyn Stahl (619) 546-8456 and Fred Sheppard (619) 546-8237.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that, on Feb. 28, RAFAEL ARROYO, 35, of Hartford, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 84 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for narcotics distribution and firearm possession offenses.