News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Hassan and Abdurahim Nuriso, owners of the Somali specialty market Towfiq Market on Sullivant Avenue, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to conspiring to commit food stamp and WIC fraud. The brothers redeemed more than $10 million in SNAP and WIC benefits at their store between 2010 and 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: KREMMLING, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management Kremmling Field Office issued an emergency closure for the North Sand Hills Special Recreation Management Area and other BLM lands in close proximity to the Mullen fire. As the fire continues to spread in northwest Colorado, this closure will ensure public safety, allowing firefighters to focus on fire suppression efforts.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: Arrested on Indictment from Western District of Washington.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA: A convicted drug trafficker was sentenced to more than 15 years in federal prison Friday, wrapping up a federal prosecution that indicted 36 defendants in a major coast-to-coast narcotics distribution network.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - David Clay Fowlkes, First Assistant United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Scott Royal, age 38, of Fayetteville, Arkansas, was sentenced today to 120 months in federal prison without the possibility of parole followed by 15 years of supervised...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: On Oct. 2, 2020, the message below was sent to census takers working on the 2020 Census.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan, and Rep. Don Young, all R-Alaska, issued the following statements after President Trump signed a presidential border-crossing permit for the Alaska-Alberta (A2A) Railway Development Corporation to lay track across the border between Alaska and Canada. The proposed ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The former program manager of an international freight forwarding company has been arrested on charges that he embezzled over $550,000 from the company, United States Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: In San Antonio, federal, state and local authorities have arrested twelve Texas Mexican Mafia (TMM) members and associates on federal drug charges in connection with a methamphetamine/heroin/cocaine trafficking operation in the San Antonio area, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash; Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Steven S. Whipple, Houston Division; San Antonio Police Chief William McManus; and, Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: Graigory Brown Charged in U.S., and Four Co-Conspirators Charged in Canada.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: BOISE - Richard E. Wajda, of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Oct. 1, 2020, to 24 months in prison for distribution of a controlled substance on Oct. 1, 2020, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today. Chief U.S. District Judge David C. Nye also ordered Wajda to serve one year of supervised release following his release from prison and pay a $4,000 fine and forfeit $6,000. Wajda pleaded guilty to the charge on July 7, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich and Special Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery Brian D. Miller announced today that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Nevada has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Office of the Special Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery (SIGPR).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: MISSOULA - A former Billings coal mining official who admitted defrauding companies of more than $20 million and lying to investigators about being kidnapped was sentenced today to five years in prison and three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: SEATTLE - A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) investigation has resulted in the arrest of two leaders of one of the world’s most notorious videogame piracy groups, Team Xecuter. The two men have been arrested and are in custody facing charges filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle, Oct. 2.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: Williamsburg and Euro Physical Therapy and Their Operators to Pay $4 Million to Resolve Allegations of False Claims to Medicare, Medicaid and Federally-Funded Healthcare Programs.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement on President Trump’s new executive order to improve our nation’s mineral security. The new order, issued on Wednesday evening, focuses on “addressing the threat to the domestic supply chain from reliance on critical minerals from foreign adversaries and supporting the domestic mining and processing industries."
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: Two Other Co-Conspirators Previously Pleaded Guilty for Their Role in the Theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that the former mayor for the City of Scranton, William L. Courtright, age 63, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment by United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion, on public corruption charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: PLATTSBURGH, NEW YORK - Graigory Brown, age 50, of Plattsburgh, was charged yesterday with conspiring to kidnap an elderly couple from Moira, New York, and transport them across the border to Canada. The husband and wife were kidnapped on Sept. 27, and safely rescued two days later in Canada.
