News from November 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - United States Attorney Aaron L. Weisman announced today that the U.S. Attorney’s Office has been allocated funding to hire an Assistant United States Attorney, for a one-year term, who will focus on prosecuting cases involving fraudulent schemes to unlawfully obtain unemployment insurance (UI) benefits and related offenses through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act of 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Yankton, South Dakota, man convicted of Felon in Possession of a Firearm was sentenced on Nov. 16, 2020, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2020
News Release: Four Members of Los Angeles-Based Fraud Ring Indicted for COVID-Relief Fraud.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 18, 2020
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today highlighted two bills important to Alaska at an Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining (PLFM) legislative hearing. Murkowski spoke about the need to provide long-term fiscal stability for the University of Alaska (University) and to resolve a set of outstanding issues from the almost 50-year-old Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 (ANCSA).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Taashaun Mansfield, age 22, Johnny Quinones, age 27, Michael Windham, age 20, and Antonio Godbolt, age 34, all of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, were indicted on November 4, 2020, by a federal grand jury on firearms charges. The case was unsealed following the arrest of the defendants.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced that U.S. District Judge Brian A. Jackson sentenced Shanard Zelron Banks, age 32, to 181 months in federal prison following his convictions for conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute controlled substances, possession with...
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 18, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Sam Graves (R-MO) criticized the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for finalizing its proposal to reallocate...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS, MO - A federal grand jury indicted Tracey Ray, on November 5, 2020. The 48-year-old Center, Missouri resident is charged with wire fraud and federal program theft. Ray was arrested on Nov. 17, 2020 and had her initial appearance before United States Magistrate Judge David D. Noce on Nov. 18, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Union County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 88 months in prison for distributing and possessing images of child sexual abuse, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - A total of eight people have been taken into custody on charges involving a five-year drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracies, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 18, 2020
News Release: The first signs of winter have arrived here at 8,000 feet. As days grow shorter, snowstorms blanket the hoodoos, and temperatures fall below freezing, park and concessionaire operations have begun making seasonal changes.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2020
News Release: Jamie Gillette Sentenced to 37 Months in Federal Prison.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 18, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, led 40 of his colleagues in introducing legislation that would block the implementation of an October 21 Executive Order by President Trump, which created a new classification for federal employees, Schedule F. This harmful executive order would make it easier for the Administration to fire non-partisan civil servants with policy expertise.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2020
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Nov. 18, 2020 - A Clarksville, Tennessee man was sentenced to federal prison today for giving false testimony during the trial of local Gangster Disciple members, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A leader of the Rhode Island Chapter of the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (“Latin Kings") pleaded guilty today to conspiracy charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2020
News Release: Tampa, FL - Senior U.S. District Judge James Moody, Jr. today sentenced Roberta A. Guedes (41, Tampa) to four years and six months in federal prison for mail fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with a fraudulent scheme wherein Guedes posed and practiced law as a licensed attorney. The court also ordered Guedes to pay $14,318 in restitution to her victims.
By State Newswire | Nov 18, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today published a majority report entitled “The United States and Europe: A Concrete Agenda for Transatlantic Cooperation on China.pdf), "to advance greater collaboration between the United States and Europe on the challenges posed by China.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2020
News Release: False Testimony Given During Gangster Disciples Trial Results in Five-Year Prison Sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return of a superseding indictment charging Phillip Roy Wasserman (63, Sarasota) and Kenneth Murray Rossman (62, Bradenton) with filing false income tax returns, in addition to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and mail fraud, and...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 18, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated nine Vermont counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Addison, Bennington, Caledonia, Chittenden, Essex, Orange, Washington, Windham and Windsor counties who suffered losses caused a drought that has occurred since June 1, 2020, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
