News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Box Elder, South Dakota, man was charged in federal district court with Receipt of Child Pornography and Possession of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that, on Oct. 2, 2020, Michael Scaduto, 33, of Littleton, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty in United States District Court in Burlington, to an information that charged him with assaulting a U.S. Border Patrol Agent. Chief Judge Geoffrey W. Crawford allowed Scaduto to continue on release conditions pending sentencing, which is scheduled for February 5, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Cory Beck, 39, of Sunnyvale, pleaded guilty today to three counts of filing false tax returns, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: These days, if you strike up a conversation with Scott Surovchak, he may take a moment to brag about his two-year-old grandson and how he remembers every detail he sees and hears. That apple didn’t fall far from the family tree - Surovchak also has impressive recollection, especially when it comes to...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: SAN ANTONIO, Tex. - U.S. Attorney John F. Bash announced today that he will resign from the Department of Justice on Friday, October 9, 2020, at 11:59pm. U.S. Attorney Bash issued the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man has pled guilty to a drug crime, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Terry Alan Blackmon, Jr., 34, pled guilty to one count of distribution of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - United States Attorney Scott C. Blader announced today that a Madison, Wisconsin resident has been charged with attempting to damage and destroy by means of fire the City-County Building on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard during the civil unrest that occurred in Madison on June 24, 2020. Marquon Clark, 26, was charged in a one-count complaint filed in U.S. District Court today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A New York man admitted to a federal court judge in Providence today that after befriending and engaging in sexually explicit communications online with a 15-year-old Rhode Island boy he relocated to Rhode Island and repeatedly engaged in illicit sexual activity with the minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Cory Beck, 39, of Sunnyvale, pleaded guilty today to three counts of filing false tax returns, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: Washington D.C. - Today Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl M. Grijalva and Committee Democrats released a new report entitled The Melting Arctic: Climate Change Impacts on People and Wildlife to accompany a livestreamed Democratic forum to investigate the same topic that will commence today at 2:00 pm Eastern time.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago-area man has been charged in federal court with conducting an illegal sports gambling business in the city and suburbs.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Levi Doman, of Keyser, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 92 months of incarceration for his involvement in a drug distribution conspiracy, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A New York man admitted to a federal court judge in Providence today that after befriending and engaging in sexually explicit communications online with a 15-year-old Rhode Island boy he relocated to Rhode Island and repeatedly engaged in illicit sexual activity with the minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Tricia Steele Boutros, a 41-year-old District of Columbia resident, was sentenced to 30 months’ imprisonment today in federal court in the District of Columbia for spearheading a three-year scheme to defraud financial institutions and account holders of approximately $3.5 million by illegally accessing bank accounts.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: A Waterloo man who escaped from a halfway house where he had been ordered to reside by a federal court was sentenced today to an additional four months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: OAKLAND - A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court charging Heidi Suzanne Miller with credit card fraud in an alleged scheme to abuse her role as a home health care aide to use the credit cards and take over the financial accounts of an elderly couple in her care, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau Investigation Special Agent in Charge John L. Bennett.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The owner of a San Fernando Valley trucking school was sentenced today to 48 months for leading a sophisticated scheme to defraud the United States Department of Veterans Affairs out of more than $4 million in education benefits involving over 100 veterans who did not attend classes.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for two counts of Sexual Abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: Greenville, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr., announced today that Dana Q. Roush, 40, and her husband Michael “Bubba" Roush, 56, both of Greenville, were sentenced to a total of seventeen years in federal prison and ordered to pay back more than $2.5 million after a jury...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 5, 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 million grant to the city of Jonesboro, Arkansas, to make rail infrastructure improvements needed to support the expansion of the Jonesboro Industrial...
