News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: Distributed More Than a Half Million Fentanyl-Laced Oxycodone Pills on the Dark Net.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $7.8 million grant to the Bioscience & Technology Business Center at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, to build a new facility to increase entrepreneurial...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Roger Mack Royal, 40, of North Wilkesboro, N.C., was sentenced to 188 months in prison today for drug and gun charges, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. District Judge Kenneth D. Bell also ordered Royal to serve five years under court supervision after he is released from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA: A priest with a long history of arrests during anti-war protests has been sentenced to federal prison for the April 2018 illegal entry and vandalism of Submarine Base Kings Bay.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: For Distribution Of Methamphetamine. FORT WAYNE-Lauren Grant, age 36, of Angola, Indiana, was sentenced by United States District Judge Holly A. Brady after her plea of guilty to distribution of methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch. Grant was sentenced to 200 months in prison followed by...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: Note: Pre-recorded statements from officials quoted in this news release can be viewed here, an infographic can be viewed here, and copies of the indictments can be obtained by clicking on: US v. Nazarovi, et. al. and US v. Trofimovics, et. al.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Today U.S. Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger provided an update on the status of Project Guardian, our strategic effort to reduce violent crime and further enforce federal firearms laws across the Eastern District of Virginia, including here in Hampton Roads.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) wrote to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today urging them to adopt its proposed Made in USA rule.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Phillip R. Bartlett, the Inspector in Charge of the New York Division of the United States Postal Inspection Service (“USPIS"), and Peter C. Fitzhugh, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of Homeland...
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, led 14 of their colleagues in urging U.S. Department of Interior ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman announced today that the Department of Justice has awarded more than 3.3 million in grant funding for fund programs that address violence against children and support youth mentoring in the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: Founder and CEO of Iranian Financial Services Firm Sentenced to Prison for Conspiring to Violate U.S. Sanctions.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: Florence, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr., announced today that Nakeem Supreme Jenerette, 20, of Loris, was sentenced to five years in federal prison after pleading guilty to possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford has returned a three-count indictment charging WILLIE JACKSON, 25, of New Haven, with firearm possession and narcotics distribution offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: Today U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank provided an update on the status of Project Guardian, a Department of Justice initiative designed to reduce gun violence and enforce federal firearms laws across the country. Project Guardian is a complement to the Department’s longstanding Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) anti-violence program, and focuses on investigating, prosecuting and preventing gun crimes.
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 DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: Fort Worth, TX - Thirty members of an alleged methamphetamine distribution ring have been charged with drug crimes, announced Special Agent in Charge Eduardo A. Chavez of the DEA Dallas Field Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - A painting looted by the Nazis in 1933 from a Jewish family in Berlin, Germany, was returned to the family’s heirs, represented by the Mosse Foundation, on Oct. 15, 2020, announced Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon and Thomas F. Relford, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - Since 2019, when Attorney General William P. Barr created the Department of Justice’s first ever-Domestic Violence Working Group-galvanizing national efforts to bring federal firearms laws to bear against armed domestic abusers-federal prosecutors in the Northern District of Georgia have taken a multi-faceted approach uniquely tailored to the issues in Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Phillip Coyne, Special Agent in Charge for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, and David Sundberg, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
