News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Dinwiddie man pleaded guilty today to possession with the intent to distribute over 50 grams of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - U.S. Attorney John C. Anderson today announced $680,391 in Department of Justice grants to reduce recidivism among adults and juvenile offenders returning to their communities in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, after confinement. The grants, awarded by the Department’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP), are part of more than $92 million in funding to support reentry efforts throughout the United States.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: Washington - Today, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) signed a outlining strengthened coordination between the FDA and the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) and Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) to facilitate the export of milk and milk products from the United States. U.S. dairy exports are valued at nearly $6 billion annually.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - An Ohio man who was stopped in Kansas with more than $1 million in his vehicle pleaded guilty today to a federal drug trafficking charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and David Sundberg, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced that, on Sept. 15, 2020, a federal grand jury in Hartford returned a six-count indictment charging the following individuals with offenses related to their involvement in an extensive commercial burglary spree.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: BOISE - Two members of an Idaho prison gang called the Aryan Knights were sentenced to federal prison after pleading guilty to one count of participating in a RICO (the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act) conspiracy, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today. Chief United States District...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser today announced over 4.4 million dollars in Department of Justice grants to reduce recidivism among adults and juvenile offenders returning to their communities in the Eastern District of Louisiana after confinement. The grants, awarded by the Department’s Office of Justice Programs, are part of more than $92 million in funding to support reentry efforts throughout the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: Arthur Hayes, Benjamin Delo, Samuel Reed, and Gregory Dwyer Flouted U.S. Anti-Money Laundering Rules.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin, Middle District of Louisiana, United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser, Eastern District of Louisiana, and Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook, Western District of Louisiana, jointly announce that the State of Louisiana received a total of $26,541,823 in six United States Department of Justice grants to respond to critical issues in local law enforcement and victims’ rights and services.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced that GREGG BRIE, a White Plains financial adviser, was arrested...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal judge today sentenced a former Chicago Police sergeant to 13 years in prison for participating in a robbery and extortion crew.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A registered sex offender arrested by members of the Rhode Island State Police Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force while he sat in a restaurant parking lot accessing the business’ Wi-Fi-feed to view child pornography is facing 10 years in federal prison after pleading guilty today to possession of child pornography after having previously been convicted for possession of child.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Grace F. Napolitano (D-CA) sent a letter to R.D. James, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, expressing their deep...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - An Ohio man who was stopped in Kansas with more than $1 million in his vehicle pleaded guilty today to a federal drug trafficking charge, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - United States Attorney Michael Bailey today announced over $4.1 million in Department of Justice grants to improve public safety, serve victims of crime and support youth programs in tribal communities in Arizona.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Rob Portman (R-OH) introduced the bipartisan Risk-Informed Spending for Cybersecurity (RISC) Act to require the federal government to make better investments in cybersecurity...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Yesterday, Committee Democrats opposed common-sense amendments from Committee Republicans during consideration of legislation that would limit domestic energy and mineral production. H.R. 5598 withdraws 234,000 acres in Northern Minnesota from mineral development, permanently blocking...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man was charged in federal district court with Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: DETROIT - A grand jury returned a superseding indictment yesterday charging Wansa Nabih Makki, her husband, Hossam Tanana, and her brother, Mahmoud Makki with multiple health care fraud and money laundering offenses, U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JON BARRY THOMPSON, a/k/a “J. Barry Thompson," the principal of a cryptocurrency escrow company, pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to commodities fraud. THOMPSON’s guilty plea results from...
