News from November 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2020
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Newburgh, New York, man pleaded guilty in federal court today to attempting to produce child pornography after soliciting sexually explicit photos and videos of two 8-year-old twin sisters in Missouri.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - John Youngboy Lodgepole, 21, of Fruitland, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, pleaded guilty in federal court today to an indictment charging him with voluntary manslaughter. A grand jury indicted Lodgepole on Oct. 9, 2019.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 3, 2020
News Release: ANDREWS, Texas - Marking a milestone for EM’s first-of-a-kind Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride (DUF6) Conversion facilities, the first shipment of depleted uranium oxide (DUO) product recently left the Paducah Site in Kentucky and safely reached its final destination.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. -Attorney General William P. Barr and U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich today announced that officers and detectives with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department’s Bolden Area Command have received the Fourth Annual Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service in Policing...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced that two men were sentenced to federal prison for sex offenses involving minors.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2020
News Release: SYRCAUSE, N.Y. -Kemnorris Kinsey, 33, of Syracuse, was sentenced today to serve 150 months in federal prison for violating the Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), announced Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon. Senior United State District Judge Frederick J. Scullin, Jr. also ordered Kinsey to serve three years of supervised release following his term of incarceration.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2020
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that Damon Lechtenberg, 47, of Lake Charles, Louisiana, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Robert R. Summerhays for production of child pornography. Lechtenberg was sentenced to 180 months (15 years) in prison followed by 20 years of supervised release. Lechtenberg pleaded guilty on April 9, 2020.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 3, 2020
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on a Management Alert issued by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) that found DHS improperly stood up its so-called “Protecting American Communities Task Force" this summer.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Juan Miguel Alvarez, 46, of Doña Ana, New Mexico, pleaded guilty in federal court in Las Cruces, New Mexico, on Oct. 21 to production of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2020
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return of an indictment charging Steven Rembert (48, Orange County) with disaster assistance fraud related to Hurricane Irma. If convicted, Rembert faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison, plus payment of restitution to the United States.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 3, 2020
News Release: EM Senior Advisor William “Ike" White told members of the community near EM’s Paducah, Kentucky site recently that the cleanup program remains productive amid the COVID-19 pandemic and continues to maximize telework opportunities for employees.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Alliance, Nebraska, man who pleaded guilty to Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on Oct. 30, 2020, by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey L. Viken.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2020
News Release: Awards Are Part of More than $458 Million in Justice Department Funding Announced by Attorney General Barr.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 3, 2020
News Release: Recently the U.S. Census Bureau released the version 3.2 update to Census Business Builder (CBB). CBB is a suite of services that provide selected demographic and economic data tailored to specific types of users in a simple to access and use format. The latest version includes new function features and data from the 2014-2018 American Community Survey, Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) and Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2020
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Virginia Beach man pleaded guilty today to possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Matthew Modafferi, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Postal Service, Office of Inspector General, announced that JESSICA GILES, 37, of West Haven, waived her right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today to theft of mail by a postal employee.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - On Oct. 26, 2020, Gregg Henry, 54, of Cibecue, Arizona, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Steven P. Logan to 27 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. Henry previously pleaded guilty to assault resulting in serious bodily injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Chad Francisco, 31, of Nashua, pleaded guilty in federal court to manufacturing child pornography, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake today sentenced Devan Mack, age 35, of Baltimore, Maryland, to 15 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 3, 2020
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on First Fruits Holdings LLC, doing business as Four Rivers Onion Packing, (First Fruits), Wake Forest, N.C., for violating the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA). These sanctions include barring the business and the principal operators of the business from engaging in PACA-licensed business or other activities without approval from USDA.
