News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two members of the Neighborhood Bloods street gang, which operated in Jersey City, New Jersey, have been indicted for the Jan. 16, 2017, murder of three Jersey City residents, including a pregnant 25-year-old woman, Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that on Friday, Oct. 2, Ahmad Kanan, 49, Madison, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty to two separate federal crimes charged in two separate indictments: Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act fraud and access device fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman announced today that Tamiko Parker, 47, of Cleveland was sentenced by Judge Dan Aaron Polster to 33 months in prison and ordered to pay $164,120.30 in restitution after Parker pleaded guilty to theft concerning programs receiving federal funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - Mani Chulpayev, having been arrested in Ukraine and extradited to Atlanta, has been arraigned on federal charges of bank fraud, mail fraud, and money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: Attorney General William P. Barr Announces the Appointment of Gregg N. Sofer as the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: Superintendent Chip Jenkins announced today that the public comment period has opened for a proposed expansion of the lahar detection system at Mount Rainier National Park. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) Cascades Volcano Observatory has proposed changes to the existing volcano monitoring system inside Mount Rainier National Park as part of a broader effort to implement an expanded lahar detection system.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney KimThoa Hoang (619) 546-9397.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: Kristi Koons Johnson Named Assistant Director in Charge of the Los Angeles Field Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Congressman Jimmy Gomez, Vice Chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, Chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and...
By State Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - U.S. Senator Jim Risch, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today issued the following statement regarding the recent suspension of the leading Tanzanian opposition candidate's campaign by electoral officials:
By Interior Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: El Día de los Muertos, also known as All Soul’s Day, has roots in many Tumacácori Mission traditions including the customs of native residents, mission-era Jesuit and Franciscan priests, Spanish colonists, Mexican settlers, and even citizens of the United States arriving in the 19th century. On this...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, David Sundberg, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and New Canaan Police Chief Leon Krolikowski announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven returned an indictment today charging BRIAN GRINNELL, 35, of Lakewood, Ohio, with distribution of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Phillip A. Kenner was sentenced by United States Circuit Judge Joseph F. Bianco to 17 years’ imprisonment for stealing millions of dollars in funds raised from Long Island residents and professional athletes that were intended for investment in land developments...
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 Interior Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: FILLMORE, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Fillmore Field Office announced today that it will conduct a wild horse gather in the Confusion Herd Management Area (HMA) beginning in November. The BLM plans to gather 560 and remove approximately 500 horses and administer population growth suppression to other horses captured. The gather is being conducted due to declining rangeland health and overpopulation of wild horses, which is currently estimated at 661 animals.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 160,020 metric tons of corn for delivery to Mexico during the 2020/2021 marketing year.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: VAN BUREN, MO - Ozark National Scenic Riverways will be conducting two managed deer hunts in October and November at Big Spring. To ensure public safety, portions of the Big Spring area will be temporarily closed October 16-19 and November 6-9.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS, MO - Armond Calvin, of St. Louis City, pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and one count of using a firearm to commit murder in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Calvin, 22, appeared before United States District Judge Catherine D. Perry.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: Defendants Admitted to Fraud and False Statement Offenses in Connection with Their Rigging of the Police Chief Exam and Misappropriation of the City’s Confidential Information.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - October 5, 2020 - Two Nashville, Tennessee men responsible for a violent crime spree in the mid-state during December 2017 and January 2018, have been sentenced to lengthy federal prison terms, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee.
