News from May 2020
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Eric W. Hathcock, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, has admitted to distributing fentanyl and heroin, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman sent a letter to Northern Ohio housing advocacy groups asking anyone who has witnessed or experienced sexual harassment by a landlord, property manager, maintenance worker, or anyone with control over housing to report that conduct to the Department of Justice.
By State Newswire | May 4, 2020
Release: More information about Chad is available on the Chad page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that Mark Allen Hillis, age 57, of Southgate, Michigan, has been arrested and charged with one count of manufacture of child pornography, attempted manufacture of child pornography, and willfully causing the manufacture of child pornography, stemming from his text communications with a 13 year-old girl on Christmas Day 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2020
News Release: Prosecuting Attorneys' Council joins statewide COVID-19 Fraud Task Force.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2020
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal judge today sentenced a Birmingham man for bank robbery, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp, Jr.
By Commerce Newswire | May 4, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security, sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Mark Esper renewing an April 7, 2020, request for documents and communications related to the coronavirus outbreak on the USS Theodore Roosevelt and dismissal of Captain Crozier. To date, the Subcommittee has not received any responsive documents or communications to this request.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2020
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A Houston woman has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges stemming from a scheme in which she and a second defendant posed as customers of Bank of America to fraudulently obtain debit cards while wearing braces on their arms to explain why their signatures differed from those of the legitimate account holders.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Fairfax physician pleaded guilty today to leading and organizing an extensive and illegal prescription distribution conspiracy and a related health care fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Braddock, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to five years’ (60 months’) imprisonment and four years of supervised release on his conviction of narcotics trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2020
News Release: Thomas Relford Named Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The former Director of Procurement for the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation and the president and chief executive officer of a government contracting firm pleaded guilty today to conspiring to bribe a public official.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national previously residing in Worcester was sentenced today in connection with fentanyl and heroin distribution and aggravated identity theft charges.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2020
News Release: ABINGDON, Va. - A Bristol, Virginia, man who is accused of messaging who he thought was a 14-year-old girl but was actually an online covert employee of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), was arrested Saturday on a federal criminal complaint and charged with child exploitation and child pornography crimes. United States Attorney Thomas T. Cullen and David W. Archey, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Richmond Division made the announcement today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2020
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Gregory Moody, 39, of Colchester, Vermont was sentenced today to 54 months in prison for robbing a T.D. Bank in St. Albans, Vermont and a Community Bank, NA in South Burlington, Vermont in March 2019. U.S. District Judge...
By Commerce Newswire | May 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2 million grant to Southeast Arkansas Economic Development District, Inc., (SEAEDD) of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, to establish a new headquarters facility in Pine Bluff. The EDA grant will be matched with $399,000 in local investment.
By State Newswire | May 4, 2020
News Release: Washington-Today, an overwhelming bipartisan majority of the House of Representatives called on the Trump Administration to extend the United Nations arms embargo on Iran, which is set to expire in October of this year. In a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman...
By Homeland Newswire | May 4, 2020
Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa.-For one Transportation Security Administration (TSA) supervisor, it started with the free distribution of extra milk and expanded into cooking homemade holiday meals and then buying 250 pizzas for hungry youngsters who were closed out of school due to the coronavirus.
By DOL Newswire | May 4, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, NJ - After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the owner of a Somerset County, New Jersey, construction company has pleaded guilty to one count of felony perjury brought by the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Braddock, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to five years’ (60 months’) imprisonment and four years of supervised release on his conviction of narcotics trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
