News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - The owner of a charter bus company operating in Massachusetts was sentenced Tuesday. Oct.13, 2020 for bribing a federal safety investigator in order to influence the safety review of passenger buses.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: Jackson, TN - William Frank Perry, 49, has been sentenced to 151 months in federal prison for three counts of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, crack cocaine and marijuana. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced that a Detroit man was sentenced to federal prison for his role in a large-scale, multi-state drug trafficking conspiracy. Antoine Eltorio Terry, 43, was sentenced to 10 years in prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: Due to recent fire activity and weather forecasts on the Cameron Peak Fire, closure areas in Rocky Mountain National Park have expanded in the northern section of the park.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - Nearly two dozen people have been charged with various violations related to firearms in all five Southern District of Texas (SDTX) divisions in the last two weeks alone, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: DEATH VALLEY, CA - It has been five years since a flash flood devastated historic structures and utilities at Scotty’s Castle in Death Valley National Park. The National Park Service (NPS) has completed several projects, but reopening is still about two years away.
By State Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: Washington-Today, Republican Leader Michael T. McCaul and Chairman Eliot L. Engel of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and Chairman William R. Keating and Ranking Member Adam Kinzinger of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, Energy, and the Environment released the following...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A federal prosecutor will be on duty on Election Day to respond to complaints of possible election fraud or voting rights violations in Kansas, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today condemned Twitter’s censorship of a negative New York Post article about Joe Biden and called on CEO Jack Dorsey to provide information on Twitter’s censorship policy that discriminates against certain news and not others. Earlier today, Oversight Republicans requested an emergency hearing on Big Tech’s election interference.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: CUNY, SUNY, Pennsylvania State University System and all Public Universities in Texas Now Available in Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A payday loan company owner pleaded guilty today to a federal criminal charge for defrauding money transmitting companies by failing to remit to them, as promised, nearly $1 million of wire transfers sent on behalf of his customers over just two weeks.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Spencer Jean was sentenced by United States District Judge Joanna Seybert to 35 years’ imprisonment for Hobbs Act robbery of a marijuana trafficker, discharging a firearm during a crime of violence and obstruction of justice. Jean was found guilty following a jury trial in July 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: Clyde Jefferson, 28, of St. Louis, appeared before United States District Judge E. Richard Webber and pled guilty to five counts of interference with commerce by robbery and one count of brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. Judge Webber set the case for sentencing on Jan. 14, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - The owner of a charter bus company operating in Massachusetts was sentenced Tuesday. Oct.13, 2020 for bribing a federal safety investigator in order to influence the safety review of passenger buses.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: Sold Purported Heroin that was Actually More Dangerous Opioids to a Woman, Causing her Death.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: United States Attorneys Scott C. Blader and Matthew D. Krueger announced today the Assistant United States Attorneys (AUSAs) who will lead the efforts of their Offices in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming Nov. 3, 2020, general election. AUSAs...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky.-Seventeen tobacco farmers throughout eastern Kentucky have agreed to resolve civil allegations that they violated the False Claims Act, a federal law that prohibits submitting false or fraudulent claims for payment to the government. As part of their civil settlement agreements, all of the defendants admitted that they submitted, or caused to be submitted, false claims to a federally-backed crop insurance program.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: Ten individuals in Lubbock have been charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine and other related drug crimes, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: Miami, Florida - Two South Florida residents have been charged with federal conspiracy, armed robbery, and firearms offenses in connection with a series of convenience store robberies in Miami-Dade, Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - On Tuesday, Harlan Billie, 30, of Ganado, Arizona, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow to 50 months in prison for sexually abusing a minor. Billie was also sentenced to lifetime supervised release and is required to register as a sex offender. Billie previously pleaded guilty to Sexual Abuse of a Minor.
