News from October 2020
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - During an interview on Fox News Wednesday night, U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, called for greater transparency regarding the one thousand pages of documents the director of national intelligence recently declassified. Excerpts of the senator’s interview are below, and video can be found here.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. Attorney Robert K. Hur today announced $1,047,593 in Department of Justice grants to Howard County to assist human trafficking victims in Maryland. The grants, awarded by the Department’s Office of Justice Programs, are part of almost $1.8 billion distributed to state victim assistance and compensation programs to fund thousands of local victim assistance programs across the country and to provide millions in compensation to victims of crime.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: NOAA’s Coral Reef Conservation Program is awarding more than $10.5 million in grants to support coral conservation projects and scientific studies in seven U.S. states and territories, as well as international projects in the Caribbean, Micronesia and the western and south Pacific.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior United States District Judge James Whittemore has sentenced Kwasi Francis (30, Ocala) to 5 years and 10 months in federal prison for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The court also ordered Francis to forfeit the firearm and all ammunition associated with the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS, MO - United States District Judge Henry E. Autrey accepted a plea, today, from Gabriel Trevino. The 35 year old pleaded guilty to the production of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: A complaint was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Joseph Stephan, a chiropractor licensed by New York State, with health care fraud for submitting false claims to the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Office of Workers Compensation Programs (OWCP) for services that were not actually rendered. Stephan was arrested this morning and will make his initial appearance this afternoon before United States Magistrate Judge Vera M. Scanlon.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Government Operations Subcommittee Ranking Member Jody Hice (R-Ga.) opened today’s hearing on federal information technology modernization at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) by emphasizing that the agency needs to meet modern day challenges, steward taxpayer dollars, and ensure the success of its critical mission.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Law enforcement in several states today arrested six defendants charged in a federal grand jury indictment alleging they participated in a Southern California-based outfit that trafficked kilogram quantities of cocaine to Alaska via commercial air flights and the mail.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Henderson, Nevada, man today admitted his role in a scheme to use bogus information and simultaneous loan applications at multiple banks - known as “shot-gunning" - to attempt to obtain home equity lines of credit (HELOCs), U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - The United States has seized 92 domain names that were unlawfully used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to engage in a global disinformation campaign, announced United States Attorney for the Northern District of California, David L. Anderson; Assistant Attorney General...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.6 million grant to Jefferson County, Nebraska, to make roadway infrastructure improvements needed to ensure access to the county’s largest employer during...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas resident who admitted to receiving and distributing child pornography over Kik Messenger with other users was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James C. Mahan to eight years in federal prison to be followed by lifetime supervised release, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - Randy James, 56, the former City Clerk of Bay Springs in Jasper County, pled guilty today before Senior U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett, to money laundering and making false statements on a federal tax return, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, Special Agent-in-Charge James E. Dorsey of the Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), Atlanta Field Office, and Mississippi State Auditor Shad White.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announces the Alaska Resource Advisory Council (RAC) Subcommittee on Public Lands will meet November 17-18, 2020, and February 9-10, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Shiloh Kalani Pisarich, 29, of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to 96 months in prison for selling an illegal sawed-off shotgun, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Brad L. Byerley of the Drug Enforcement Administration. Pisarich was also ordered to serve 3 years of supervised released following his prison sentence and pay a $5,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Law enforcement in several states today arrested six defendants charged in a federal grand jury indictment alleging they participated in a Southern California-based outfit that trafficked kilogram quantities of cocaine to Alaska via commercial air flights and the mail.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: (MALTA, Mont.) -The Department of the Interior has proposed withdrawal of 2,688.13 acres of public lands in the Zortman-Landusky Mine reclamation area from location and entry of new mining claims or sites for an additional 20-year period, subject to valid existing rights. The continued withdrawal of this acreage, first approved in October of 2000, would support ongoing reclamation efforts and related analyses.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: MONROE, La. - Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that Ashton A’qumartez Thomas, 21, of West Monroe, Louisiana, was sentenced today. United States District Judge Terry A. Doughty sentenced Thomas to 30 months in prison followed by 3 years of supervised release for possession of stolen firearms. He was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $14,306.89. Thomas pled guilty on June 15, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that HENLY FELIZ SANTIAGO, 43, a citizen of the Dominican Republic last residing in Torrington, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 48 months of imprisonment for trafficking heroin and cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Granby man was convicted today by a federal jury in Springfield of child exploitation offenses.
