News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel yesterday sentenced Saulina Helen Eady, age 38, of Los Angeles, California, to three years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, in connection with a scheme to fraudulently...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - A 45-year-old Katy man has entered a guilty plea to embezzling over $2 million from a local oil services company, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan. K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national who was previously deported was sentenced today for illegal reentry.
By State Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: Washington-Chairman Eliot L. Engel, and Ranking Member Michael T. McCaul of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs today released the following statement on the Lukashenka regime’s threat to use lethal force against peaceful protesters in Belarus...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: The Department of Justice announced that it has charged more than 14,200 defendants with firearms-related crimes during Fiscal Year (FY) 2020, despite the challenges of COVID-19 and its impact on the criminal justice process.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A medical device maker has agreed to pay $18 million to resolve allegations that the company caused the submission of false claims to the Medicare, Medicaid, and TRICARE programs by paying kickbacks to physicians and hospitals to induce the use of its products, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey and the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Lancaster, California man pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Today, U.S. Attorney David M. DeVillers announced that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio filed charges against more than 200 new defendants with firearms-related crimes in Fiscal Year 2020. The district also prosecuted* 23 defendants for murder during this timeframe, with the vast majority involving firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Petersburg man pleaded guilty today to possession of firearms as a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Timoteo Ramirez-Lopez, age 32, was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Syracuse for illegally re-entering the United States without authorization after being deported previously. The indictment was announced by Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon and Thomas E. Feeley, Field Office Director, Buffalo Field Office, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former member of two white supremacist organizations has agreed to plead guilty to a felony charge that he failed to disclose his past membership in two hate groups in order to obtain a security clearance and employment at a defense contractor.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Roxbury man, who was previously convicted of cocaine distribution, was indicted today for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Today, United States Attorney David M. DeVillers announced a surge in enforcement to address gun crimes in two Columbus neighborhoods.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, joined by Senators Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), sent a l etter urging Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: At a roundtable with law enforcement in Albuquerque today, Attorney General William P. Barr announced updates on Operation Legend, which was expanded to Albuquerque on July 22, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - Two separate federal criminal complaints were filed today charging employees of the United States Postal Service with delay or destruction of mail by a postal employee, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette joined U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, and other state and community leaders in Oak Ridge on Oct. 13 to celebrate the historic first-ever removal of a former uranium enrichment complex. Read more about this EM achievement here.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing firearms, including purchasing firearms advertised on the internet, and of stalking two female victims associated with massage parlors in Kansas.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: J&F Investimentos S.A. Pleads Guilty and Agrees to Pay Over $256 Million to Resolve Criminal Foreign Bribery Case.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Bigfork man convicted of methamphetamine trafficking in the Havre area was sentenced today to 15 years in prison and five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
