News from November 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the arrest of JOHN MUESER. MUESER, 69, is charged with sexual exploitation...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: On November 19 and 20, more than 200 industry and government officials exercised the energy sector’s response and recovery to a Wasatch earthquake during CESER’s Clear Path VIII. This year’s scenario impacted critical energy infrastructure within Utah and the surrounding states with cascading impacts...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty plea of BRYCE MICHAEL WILLIAMS, 26, to one count of conspiracy to commit arson at the Minneapolis Police Department’s Third Precinct. WILLIAMS, who was initially charged via criminal complaint on June 16, 2020, and indicted on Aug. 25, 2020, entered his guilty plea today before Judge Patrick J. Schiltz in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: Defendants Allegedly Distributed Heroin, Fentanyl, and Cocaine and Face Federal Mandatory Minimum Sentences if Convicted.
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: Final Defendant Sentenced to More than 17 Years in MS-13 Case.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was sentenced today for distributing fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Pennsylvania man made his initial appearance today in connection with the February 2020 robberies of two Camden County, New Jersey, banks, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: NEW YORK - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO) officers removed Luis Gerardo Duran-Hernandez, 27, an unlawfully present foreign fugitive, to El Salvador, Nov. 13.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that two brothers, Daniel Gutman, age 38, and Benjamin Gutman, age 38, both of Maryland, were indicted on Nov. 18, 2020, by a federal grand jury on multiple conspiracy, false statement and wire fraud charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Preston Elliott, 25, of Dover, pleaded guilty in federal court to possession of fentanyl with intent to distribute, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced several important accomplishments that support the agency’s mission of preserving wild horses and burros on public range lands in an ecologically sustainable way. During Fiscal Year 2020 - which ended Sept. 30, 2020 - the BLM humanely removed 10,139 wild...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, today drew parallels between the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Department of Defense’s (DOD) handling of health concerns of veterans and servicemembers who deployed to Karshi-Khanabad (K2) Air Base in Uzbekistan between 2001 and 2005 and the fight to ensure health care and compensation for 9/11 responders and survivors.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas resident pleaded guilty today to robbing two U.S. Postal Service mail carriers of the mail they were delivering, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich of the District of Nevada.
By State Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: Dear Mr. Bulatao and Mr. String...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: SUSANVILLE, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management is temporarily restricting public access to the Fort Sage Off-Highway Vehicle Area in Lassen County to protect public health and safety in the aftermath of the Laura 2 Fire.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA, PA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Johnson & Johnson (“J&J") subsidiary Medical Device Business Services, Inc. (“MDBS") agreed to pay $10 million to settle allegations under the False Claims Act that Therakos, Inc., a former J&J subsidiary, engaged in promotion...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut; David Sundberg, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and New Haven Police Chief Otoniel Reyes today announced that five men were arrested yesterday on federal narcotics charges related to the distribution of heroin and crack cocaine in New Haven.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: Erie, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of filing false income tax returns and aiding and assisting the filing of false and fraudulent income tax returns, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 19, 2020
News Release: Cape Hatteras National Seashore and Wright Brothers National Memorial will virtually commemorate three important anniversaries next month. The special events will be available to watch on social media and Dare County’s CURRENTtv.
