News from October 2020
By Interior Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: FAIRBANKS, AK - Two new maps showing winter access points and legal off-highway vehicle (OHV) areas on federal public lands aim to help hunters be successful while preserving sensitive environmental areas near the Steese Highway during the upcoming State of Alaska Fortymile caribou hunt that begins Oct. 27.
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: PITTSBURGH - A resident of McKees Rocks, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute a quantity of fentanyl and heroin, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: Logan Decker Sentenced to 44 Years in Prison for his Role in the Sexual Exploitation of a Two-Year-Old Child.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: Today, the Department of Justice announced a global resolution of its criminal and civil investigations into the opioid manufacturer Purdue Pharma LP (Purdue), and a civil resolution of its civil investigation into individual shareholders from the Sackler family. The resolutions with Purdue are subject to the approval of the bankruptcy court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - United States Attorney Scott W, Brady announced today that Assistant United States Attorneys (AUSAs) Eric G. Olshan and Lee J. Karl will lead the efforts of his Office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming Nov. 3, 2020, general election.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement in response to reporting that lawyers have still been unable to track down the parents of 545 children who were separated by the Trump Administration in 2017 under the pilot program of its family separation policy.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, FL -Travis Ryan Pritchard (37, Green Cove Springs) today pleaded guilty to one count of producing an image of a child being sexually abused and one count of possessing an image of a prepubescent child being sexually abused. He faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 15 years, and up to 50 years, in federal prison, as well as a life term of supervised release.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and other key lawmakers today wrote a letter to Natalie Jaresko, executive director of the Puerto Rico Financial Oversight and Management Board (FOMB), urging “a thorough, independent investigation into the serious insider trading allegations levied...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams announced today that a Portland, Oregon man has been charged with Civil Disorder and Theft of Government Property during protest activities in Portland.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former private security employee at an Orange County retirement community pleaded guilty today a felony charge for pretending to be a federal agent.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Lumberton man was sentenced today to 168 months in prison for possessing with the intent to distribute cocaine and possessing multiple firearms as a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: Transcript / Visit Video Source. FBI Video Message Announces Fresno’s Breaking the Chains as Recipient of FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award. Today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Sacramento Field Office released a video message to announce Fresno nonprofit Breaking the Chains is a...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: Today, the Department of Justice announced a global resolution of its criminal and civil investigations into the opioid manufacturer Purdue Pharma LP (Purdue), and a civil resolution of its civil investigation into individual shareholders from the Sackler family. The resolutions with Purdue are subject to the approval of the bankruptcy court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: A Virginia man who sent harassing and intimidating emails directed toward Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum and his family pleaded guilty to cyber stalking, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: Seattle - Eleven defendants were indicted in three separate indictments for their parts in manufacturing, distributing, and profiting from the production and distribution of illegal marijuana across the country and in the Puget Sound region, announced U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran. Some of the defendants...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: SOUTH BEND -Eric Lauderdale, 37, of South Bend, Indiana was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Jon DeGuilio upon his plea of guilty to distribution of methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging nine defendants with a racketeering conspiracy at the Chesapeake Detention Facility (CDF), in Baltimore, Maryland. The indictment charges three correctional officers (COs), four detainees, and two outside “facilitators" for their...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - Oliver McNair, 29, of Hattiesburg, pled guilty today before Senior U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett to possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Kurt Thielhorn with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (“ATF").
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey D. Hill (619) 546-7924.
