News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Federal prosecutors on Monday charged a Tennessee resident with video voyeurism, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and Tennessee Valley Authority Police and Emergency Management.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Jonathan D. Larsen, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (“IRS-CI"), announced that JAMEEN WALKER was arrested yesterday in Manhattan...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore.-U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams announced today that an Ontario, Oregon resident, and a Weiser, Idaho resident have been charged with interstate trafficking of methamphetamines and other drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Robert Fitzgerald, of Rochester, NY pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to failing to collect and pay over payroll taxes to the Internal Revenue Service. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the general aviation (GA) community national #FlySafe campaign helps educate airmen about safety.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: Continuing a longstanding Justice Department tradition, Attorney General William P. Barr issued the following statement: “Americans have the opportunity once again to help shape the future of this nation by exercising their right to vote. It is a right that forms the foundation of our democratic system...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), in partnership with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), has awarded $2 million to the Critical Infrastructure Resilience Institute (CIRI), a DHS Center of Excellence (COE) led by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), to develop a plan that CISA can execute to build a national network of cybersecurity technical institutes.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, Susan A. Gibson, and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Craig Carpenito, announced a Philadelphia man today admitted his role in a fentanyl distribution conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: Defendant participated in a $300 Million Nationwide Telemarketing Fraud Scheme.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) today that openly acknowledges major flaws in the way the Trump Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has handled the Universal Service Fund’s High-Cost Program. Pallone, who requested the report, released the following statement in response...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: BOISE - Frank Ocegueda-Munoz, 23, of Caldwell, was sentenced to 71 months in federal prison for two counts of unlawful possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today. A federal grand jury indicted Ocegueda-Munoz on Jan. 14, 2020.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) today that openly acknowledges major flaws in the way the Trump Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has handled the Universal Service Fund’s High-Cost Program. Pallone, who requested the report, released the following statement in response...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: MISSOULA - A Sinaloa, Mexico drug trafficker who brought pounds of methamphetamine, along with heroin and oxycodone pills containing fentanyl, to Montana for distribution was sentenced on Oct. 29 to eight years in prison and five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said today.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) wrote to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today urging him to work collaboratively with New York University (NYU) researchers in their effort to improve transparency and accountability in political advertising.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A federal grand jury in Providence today returned a three-count indictment charging a Johnston, Rhode Island, beef slaughterhouse and its owners with affixing United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) inspection stamps on beef products without authorization of the USDA.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) wrote to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today urging him to work collaboratively with New York University (NYU) researchers in their effort to improve transparency and accountability in political advertising.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa- United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum announced on Oct. 30, 2020, Brandon Tumause Owen, age 20, of Cedar Rapids, was indicted by a federal grand jury for one count of Unlawful Drug User in Possession of a Firearm, in violation of Title 18 U.S.C. Sections 922(g)(3) and 924(a), after...
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: America's Conservation Enhancement Act will reauthorize or establish several important government wildlife conservation programs.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) today that openly acknowledges major flaws in the way the Trump Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has handled the Universal Service Fund’s High-Cost Program. Pallone, who requested the report, released the following statement in response...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: Alexandria, VA - The U.S. Marshals in the Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia conducted a significant five-day law enforcement effort, dubbed “Operation Find Our Children," throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia that resulted in the rescue of 27 previously missing children and confirmed the location of six additional children previously reported as missing and subsequently discovered by the U.S. Marshals Service as being in the custody of their legal guardian.
