News from November 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A New Bedford man was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury with illegally possessing a Mustang.380 pistol and ammunition.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Budget Chairman John Yarmuth, House Appropriations Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey, and House Oversight and Reform Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney published funding documents obtained from the Trump Administration’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that show the White House...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Nicholas Ferrone, 29, of Utica, NY, who was convicted of three counts of bank robbery, was sentenced to serve 76 months in prison by U.S. District David G. Larimer.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Bruce Lanier Jefferson (46, Jacksonville) has pleaded guilty to being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. Because of Jefferson’s criminal history, he faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years, and up to life, in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior United States District Judge John Antoon II today sentenced Tommy Lee Holt (27, Ocala) to four years and seven months in federal prison for possession of an unregistered destructive device. Following his prison term, Holt is ordered to serve three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior United States District Judge John Antoon II today sentenced Christopher Maurice McCallum, Jr. (28, Ocala) to 8 years in federal prison for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. In addition, McCallum received a consecutive 2-year prison term on a related violation of supervision in another firearm case.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, and Manchester Police Chief William Darby announced that LUIS CIURO, 36, of East Hartford, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today to one count of possession with intent to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman announced today that a grand jury sitting in Cleveland has returned a 10-count indictment charging Andrey Kovalenko, age 52, formerly of Bedford, Ohio, with ten counts of mail fraud. The defendant was previously charged by criminal complaint.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - United States District Judge John L. Badalamenti has sentenced Alphonda Baker, Sr. (45, Cape Coral) to 14 years in federal prison for conspiring to distribute heroin and fentanyl and possessing multiple firearms as a convicted felon. Baker had pleaded guilty on February 5, 2020.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS - On Nov. 19, 2020, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Southern Nevada District issued a Decision Record (DR) and Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) based on analysis provided in the Nevada Wild Horse Range Herd Management Area Wild Horse Gather Plan Environmental Assessment (EA).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester restaurant manager was sentenced today in federal court in Worcester for conspiring with the wife of a convicted drug dealer to use drug proceeds to renovate and operate a Shrewsbury Street restaurant.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - U.S. Attorney John C. Anderson today announced the federal indictments of 18 individuals in the Roswell, New Mexico, area on charges ranging from distribution of methamphetamine to money laundering. The charges are contained three separate indictments totaling 66 counts.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Twenty-one members of a drug trafficking organization primarily operating in Washington, Allegheny and Fayette Counties in southwestern Pennsylvania have been indicted by a federal grand jury for trafficking significant quantities of cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin and fentanyl, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement after President Trump’s speech on the administration’s efforts to lower health care costs.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces today that Mori, Bean and Brooks, P.A. (MBB), a radiology practice in the Jacksonville, Florida area, has agreed to pay the United States $1.4 million to resolve allegations that it knowingly submitted false claims to Medicare and Medicaid for radiological images that were ineligible for reimbursement.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Richmond man was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for distributing a controlled substance containing heroin and fentanyl.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin asked the Federal Reserve to return unused funds intended to support COVID-related emergency lending programs...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor announced today that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has amended the status of the Maritime Advisory Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (MACOSH) from a discretionary committee to a non-discretionary committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - Jake Messer, 37, and George Oscar Messer, 61, of Rockholds, Kentucky were indicted by a federal grand jury sitting in London on Thursday, on federal kidnapping charges.
