News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newark man made his initial appearance today on charges of engaging in fraud by illegally obtaining unemployment insurance benefits, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA: An Augusta man has been sentenced to more than 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to robbing two Augusta banks.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today released new data from the second phase of the experimental Household Pulse Survey. The Household Pulse Survey is the result of an effort by the Census Bureau and other federal statistical agencies to document temporal trends in how individuals are experiencing business curtailment...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: A 21-count superseding indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging 36 defendants-including members, associates and co-conspirators of the New York City-based street gang known as the “Bully Gang"-with conspiring to distribute drugs, firearms trafficking and money laundering, among...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger announced today that Chief United States District Judge Pamela Pepper sentenced Christopher L. Childs (48), of Hartford, Wisconsin, to 27 years in prison for sex trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Dallas Smith, 59, of Jackson, was sentenced today by U.S. District Carlton W. Reeves to time-served, or 14 months, and 3 years of supervised release for illegally possessing firearms, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Michele Sutphin with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Smith was also sentenced to pay a fine of $1,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: DENVER - U.S. Attorney Jason R. Dunn today announced awards of $11,281,830 in Department of Justice grants to fight drug abuse and addiction in Colorado. The grants were awarded by the Department’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP) and are part of more than $341 million going to communities nationwide.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky.- A Brooksville, Ky., woman, Rebecca Teegarden, 58, was sentenced in federal court on Wednesday, to 36 months in prison, by U.S. District Judge David Bunning, for theft by a bank employee and aggravated identity theft.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Christopher Krebs released the following statement tonight on the election security announcement made this evening...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: Central Islip, N.Y. - Today, Ray Donovan, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), New York Division and Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy D. Sini announced the arrest of a Suffolk County Legislator for allegedly offering to illegally supply narcotics to a prostitute in exchange for a sex act.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and David Sundberg, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced that, on October 5, 2020, a federal grand jury in New Haven returned an indictment charging WILLIAM MEIER...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Oct. 20, 2020, Emmanuel Roman-Figueroa, age 38, of Hazleton, David Jusino Ramirez, age, 64, a New Jersey resident, and Julio Romero-Mancebo, age 28, also a resident of New Jersey, were indicted on Oct. 20, 2020, for drug trafficking.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: BISHOP, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Bishop Field Office has reopened a portion of public lands in Mono County that were closed due to the effects of the Slink Fire.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Wilmer Rosales, a/k/a “DoubleU," (22, Plant City) has pleaded guilty to conspiring to traffic in controlled substances; conspiring to commit robbery; committing robbery; using a firearm and causing the first degree murder of Grant Urquhart in furtherance of the drug conspiracy; and possessing ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: Over 100 defendants charged with federal crimes under Operation Legend in Cleveland.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA -Lawrence Keefe, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced today that Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Andrew J. Grogan will lead the efforts of his Office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - U.S. Attorney John C. Milhiser announced today the appointment of District Election Officers in the Central District of Illinois in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming Nov. 3, 2020, general election. Assistant U.S. Attorneys...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: Defendant accepted kickback in return for obtaining loans for businessman.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Stanley Choate Eaves Sr., 82, of Charlotte, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge David S. Cayer today and pleaded guilty to wire fraud, for defrauding eight victims of more than $350,000, announced the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: The FBI is the primary agency responsible for investigating malicious cyber activity against election infrastructure, malign foreign influence operations, and election-related crimes, like voter fraud and voter suppression or intimidation.
