News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Dr. Felix Brizuela, Jr., of Harrison City, Pennsylvania, has admitted to illegally distributing controlled substances, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester, Mass. man was indicted by a grand jury today with civil disorder and possession of a Molotov cocktail during a demonstration in the City of Worcester over the death of George Floyd.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a letter to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue Thursday, the Chairs of all six House Agriculture Subcommittees, led by Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations Chair Marcia L. Fudge of Ohio, expressed grave concerns over a recent directive from the White House Office of Management...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: PIKEVILLE, KY- - Jackson Noel, 62, a pharmacist operating Buffalo Drug Inc., located in Buffalo, West Virginia, was sentenced in federal court on Wednesday, to 120 months in prison, by U.S. District Judge Karen Caldwell, for conspiring to illegally dispense and distribute oxycodone and oxymorphone.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: Seattle - U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran today announced a nearly $500,000 Department of Justice grant to combat elder abuse and financial fraud targeted at seniors in a Western Washington Tribal community. The grant, awarded by the Department’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP), is part of over $9 million...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, testified before the House Rules Committee in favor of long-overdue changes to the House of Representative’s Rules to give the Committee on Homeland Security primary jurisdiction over the Department...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management Kemmerer Field Office advises that the water system at the Fontenelle Creek Campground will be winterized during the second week of October 2020 and out of service for the season. During this time, the Fontenelle Creek Campground remains open free of charge.
By State Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - In advance of World Food Day, U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Bob Casey (D-Pa.), along with U.S. Representatives Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) and Chris Smith (R-N.J.), introduced a bipartisan, bicameral resolution recognizing a decade ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Sept. 29, 2020, Robert Duus, age 34, of Monroe County, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury for attempted online enticement of a minor and attempted sex trafficking of a child.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: Court found man engaged in “threatening and terrifying" conduct.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: National Cybersecurity Awareness Month has a unique significance for us here at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T). The commemorative month was created 17 years ago by DHS and the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) as a broad effort to assist people...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky. - Wesley Forrest Clay, 29, of Olathe, Kan., was indicted on Thursday in the Eastern District of Kentucky, for federal charges of sending threatening communications in interstate commerce.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: Eight other men have already been sentenced for their roles in the conspiracy.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
Release: Summary: The Secretary of Agriculture has renewed the charter of the General Conference Committee of the National Poultry Improvement Plan. This committee works to maintain and ensure industry involvement in Federal administration of matters pertaining to poultry health. The poultry industry elects the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: BOSTON -The owner of a Revere towing company was charged yesterday with engaging in an under-the-table payroll fraud scheme that defrauded the government more than $3.3 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that DAVID HARDY, a/k/a “Mooka," MARQUIS COLLIER, JERMAINE HUGHLEY, a/k/a “Blacks," and SINCERE SAVOY, a/k/a “Bitty," pled guilty to participating in the murder of Shamoya McKenzie, a 13-year-old...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman announced today that Eric Witherspoon, 56, of Warrensville Heights, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Christopher A. Boyko to 15 months in prison and ordered to pay a $5,000 fine after Witherspoon pleaded guilty to bribery in federally funded programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Sept. 29, 2020, Philip Schmaldinst, age 44, of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury for attempted online enticement of a minor and attempted sex trafficking of a child.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned two indictments Thursday arising from a single investigation into a drug trafficking organization operating in California and trafficking drugs to Colorado, Nebraska, Oregon, and Washington, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - The owner of a now-defunct Peabody construction company was arrested yesterday in connection with a scheme to defraud the IRS of approximately $1 million in payroll taxes and to defraud his workers’ compensation insurance carrier by failing to disclose how many workers he employed.
