News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: GAINESVILLE, Ga. - Terence Dewayne Dixon has been sentenced for running an online chat group that he named “House of 1000 Littles." The chat group was dedicated to sharing child pornography and discussing child molestation. At the time, Dixon had already been convicted in 2001 of the aggravated sexual assault of a nine-year-old child.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: ABINGDON, Va. - John Howard “Junior" Boothe, Jr., the owner of C & A Trucking, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Abingdon to 36 months in federal prison after having previously pled guilty to conspiring to commit money laundering. Acting United States Attorney Daniel P. Bubar made the announcement today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Oct. 1, 2020, United States District Judge J.P. Stadtmueller sentenced Edward B. Burgess (28) of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to 174 months in prison for Arson and Hobbs Act Armed Robbery. Burgess pled guilty to one...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Oct. 1, 2020, United States District Judge J.P. Stadtmueller sentenced Edward B. Burgess (28) of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to 174 months in prison for Arson and Hobbs Act Armed Robbery. Burgess pled guilty to one ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: Two Members of Notorious Videogame Piracy Group “Team Xecuter" in Custody.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Jarvis Myiah Delgarito, 21, of Iyanbito, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, pleaded guilty in federal court on Sept. 29 to an information charging him with assault upon a federal officer.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL) released the following statement after Shimkus went to the House floor to request unanimous consent that the House of Representatives immediately consider the Committee-passed product. Unfortunately, Democrats rejected the request to bring the bill as adopted by committee to the House floor for consideration.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Jordan Jysae Pulido (26, Trinity) with enticement and coercion of a minor traveling out of the country to engage in illicit sexual conduct, and transporting a minor into the country to engage in...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: HEYBURN, Idaho - The Bureau of Reclamation is lowering the pool elevation at Lake Walcott from now through mid-October, to store higher-than-normal flows from American Falls Dam following the 2020 irrigation season.
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: U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman announced today that Joshua T. Grant, age 28, of Elyria, Ohio was sentenced by Judge John R. Adams to a maximum term of 10 years in prison after Grant pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession of a firearm by a person with a prior misdemeanor domestic violence conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: MISSOULA - A Texas resident to admitted to drug trafficking and firearms crimes after a traffic stop near Bozeman led to a trooper finding marijuana, cocaine and guns in his vehicle was sentenced today to five and one half years in prison and three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Robert H. Hendricks (64, Ponte Vedra) has pleaded guilty to four counts of wire fraud. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison for each count. Hendricks has agreed to pay at least $2,682,924.34 in restitution to his victims. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) has signed a 50-year lease with National Links Trust (NLT) to operate three historic golf courses in Washington, D.C. NLT will begin management of East Potomac, Langston and Rock Creek golf courses beginning Monday, Oct. 5.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: Dear Acting Assistant Secretary Wilson: We write to express our opposition to the Department of Labor’s (the Department) proposal regarding a fiduciary’s duties as they relate to proxy voting and shareholder rights in plans governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).[1] ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger announced today that Advanced Pain Management (“APM") has agreed to pay $1 million to settle claims asserting violations of the False Claims Act by paying kickbacks and by performing medically unnecessary laboratory tests. APM is a collection of companies including...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: CUMBERLAND, Md. - The National Park Service (NPS) in coordination with the City of Cumberland invites public comment through October 31 on a proposed combined sewer overflow project that would affect a portion of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: DENVER - U.S. Attorney Jason Dunn today announced $2.6 million in Department of Justice grants to improve public safety, serve victims of crime and support youth programs to the Southern Ute Indian Tribe in Colorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A former Milford second grade teacher was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury for possession of child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: HAGERMAN, Idaho - Hagerman Fossil Beds Visitor Center, located in downtown Hagerman, Idaho, will be open on Fridays, Saturday, and Sundays from 10:00 am to 4:30 pm starting October 2 through December 5, 2020. The visitor center will be closed Mondays through Thursdays.
