News from November 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: Defendant was previously indicted on cocaine and firearms charges in 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Davon Owens, age 36, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty on Nov. 17, 2020, to possession of a firearm during a drug trafficking crime. Owens was a member of the Gregory Butler Drug Trafficking Organization (DTO) which distributed heroin, fentanyl, cocaine, and crack cocaine in Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today released the following joint statement regarding the Department of the Treasury’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan expense deductibility guidance.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Amir Jahed a/k/a Amir Jahedmotlagh, 50, of Montgomery Village, Maryland, who was convicted of mail fraud, was sentenced to serve 24 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Earnest Jonathan Law, 26, and Kiara Shantel Green, 27, of Mobile, Alabama, were sentenced in federal court for their respective roles in a series of violent carjackings in Mobile in April and May 2018. Green pleaded...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Patsy Meredith DeMary, of Beverly, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 60 months of incarceration for distributing methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia will not pursue federal criminal civil rights charges against the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officer involved in the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Deon Kay, the Office announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Casey Lee Gilmer, 34, of Harrison County, Mississippi was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr. to 70 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for being an unlawful user of a controlled substance in possession of multiple firearms...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Luis Angel Polanco Huma, 24, a citizen of the Dominican Republic most recently residing in Lawrence, Massachusetts, was sentenced to 78 months in federal prison for participating in a fentanyl trafficking conspiracy, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: A second former officer charged for falsification of records.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: DES MOINES, Iowa -- Twenty-five defendants are facing federal criminal charges as part of a joint federal and state investigation of a methamphetamine, cocaine, crack cocaine, and marijuana drug trafficking organization. Most of these defendants were arrested on Nov. 18, 2020, during the execution ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Monessen, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 78 months’ imprisonment and 15 years of supervised release on his conviction of Possession of Material Depicting the Sexual Exploitation of a Minor, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Raleigh man was sentenced today to 108 months in prison for robbing multiple businesses in Wake County in early 2019.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today asked health insurance company UnitedHealth to disclose details about its behavioral health business, which has been subject to ongoing class action litigation for improperly denying coverage for mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) care to tens of thousands of Americans.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced it expects to publish the draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Versatile Test Reactor (VTR) in mid-December 2020. The VTR is a leading-edge, fast-spectrum test reactor that will support research and development of innovative nuclear energy technologies.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment today against Armando Chavez Jr., 19, of Fresno, charging him with possessing over 40 grams of fentanyl with intent to distribute it and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - Seven individuals across two states have been charged in a Houston federal indictment unsealed Tuesday for their alleged participation in a scheme to improperly obtain approximately $16 million in forgivable Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: Conspired to Commit Acts Involving Murder, Intimidation, and Assault.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: Burglary Crew Conducted Over a Dozen Heists and Attempted Heists in the United States and Europe Between 2006 and 2017, Stole Over $10 Million in Jewelry.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former City of Newark official and officer of the Newark Community Economic Development Corporation (NCEDC) and two business owners were charged today for their roles in a bribery scheme, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
