News from November 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: A Congolese man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Portland to conspiring to commit mail fraud, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Todd P. Donohue, age 44, formerly of Wallkill, Ulster County, New York, was sentenced today to 27 months in prison for unlawfully possessing firearms as a felon.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau released the total number of 2020 Census paid temporary workers that earned any pay Oct. 25 - Oct. 31, 2020. The data tables include national totals for all 50 states and the District of Columbia by Census Bureau regional geography. A weekly number of paid temporary workers for Puerto Rico is also available. The weekly release will occur 10 days after the end of the weekly period.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Kyle Flack, of Camden, New Jersey, has admitted to his role in a drug conspiracy that spanned several states, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: Taiwan Individual and International Business Organizations Charged with Criminal Conspiracy to Violate Iranian Sanctions.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Trent Shores announced that more than 30 individuals have been named in two separate indictments for their roles in heroin trafficking operations in Oklahoma. The indictments were unsealed late Tuesday in U.S. District Court after the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) along with federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Jonathan Brownlee, age 42, of Long Pond, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment on November 5, 2020, by U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion for possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Lawton, Oklahoma, woman convicted of Possession of a Controlled Substance was sentenced on November 5, 2020, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - The Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF), designed to significantly increase the Savannah River Site's (SRS) ability to empty and close radioactive waste tanks, has processed thousands of gallons of waste in its first month of operation.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on November 9, 2020, Richard Garner (age: 56) of Rancho Cucamonga, California, was sentenced to a term of ten years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Section 841(a)(1).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: Many people wear masks in public to slow the spread of COVID-19, as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). However, masks with exhalation valves do not slow the spread of the disease, and now, new videos from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) show why.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Mitchell, South Dakota, man convicted of Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer was sentenced on November 5, 2020, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of JEFFREY FRANK HORNER, 57, to 28 months in prison for wire fraud. HORNER, who pleaded guilty on July 7, 2020, was sentenced today before Senior Judge Paul A. Magnuson in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
Release: CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers at Buffalo Niagara International Airport caught a Monroe County, New York, man with a.22 caliber handgun loaded with five bullets in his carry-on bag on Monday, Nov. 9.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: Indictment Alleges Defendant Threatened School Shooting, Violence Against African-Americans.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on California v. Texas, the health care case being heard at the Supreme Court today. In the case, Republican Attorneys General...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bergen County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for conspiring to launder more than $850,000, which he believed was derived from the sale of narcotics, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that NAVORIOUS HILLS, age 41, of Hammond, Louisiana, was charged on November 6, 2020 in a two-count indictment by a Federal Grand Jury for drug trafficking in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Section 841 and possession of a firearm during a drug trafficking crime in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 924.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa - A resident of Indiana, PA, has been sentenced in federal court to 70 months in prison and five years of supervised release on his conviction of a violation of federal narcotics law, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
