News from October 2020
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security, Rep. Adam B. Schiff, the Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Rep. Jerrold L. Nadler, the Chairman...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - Angelo Bunting, 22, has pled guilty to multiple carjackings and brandishing a firearm during those crimes of violence. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the guilty plea today.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated four Iowa counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Cherokee, O'Brien, Plymouth and Sioux counties who suffered losses caused by recent drought may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Shaquane Scott, age 31, of Frackville, Schuylkill County, pleaded guilty on Oct. 27, 2020, before U.S. Magistrate Court Judge Karoline Mehalchick, for distribution of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that JASON WHITEHEAD, 41, of Springfield, Massachusetts, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to a charge related to his defrauding multiple companies through a flexible spending account scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: More than 150,000 elderly, vulnerable victims nationwide targeted by criminal conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Marco Antonio Flores, 28, of Tucson, Arizona, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Scott H. Rash to serve 108 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Flores previously pleaded guilty to two counts of robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A former Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) public affairs officer was sentenced today to seven years in prison for defrauding at least a dozen companies of over $4.4 million by posing falsely as a covert officer of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A Southeast Texas man who wanted to marry his minor victim was sentenced Wednesday in the Southern District of Texas to 50 years in federal prison for producing child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, sent a letter to Dr. Stephen Hahn, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and Chairman Joseph Simons, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), seeking information about FDA and FTC efforts to eliminate the sale, distribution, and prescription of the drug thymosin alpha-1 for treating coronavirus.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that EVAN SHEFFIELD, also known as “Smooth," 34, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 97 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin, fentanyl and crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of The Guardians Project, a Federal Law Enforcement Initiative to Combat Corruption, Fraud, and Abuse in South Dakota.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced Wednesday the results of a five-day targeted enforcement operation that resulted in the apprehension of more than 100 at-large aliens in communities spanning from the country’s northern to southwest borders.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), along with Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Sens. Todd Young (R-Ind.) and Ben Cardin (D-Md.), sent a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) concerning their oversight procedures for the organ procurement...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A federal grand jury today indicted a Union County, New Jersey, man for allegedly persuading, inducing and enticing numerous female victims, usually commercial sex workers, to travel in interstate or foreign commerce to engage in prostitution and other sexual acts, often by use of force, violence and threats, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return of an indictment charging Delon Joseph Adams (48, Palmetto) with four counts of interference with commerce by robbery, four counts of brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, and one count of possessing ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Nicholas D. Klem, of Proctor, West Virginia, has admitted to his role in a drug trafficking operation, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Ameer Elashmawy, 28, of Rochester, NY, was charged by criminal complaint with unauthorized access of a protected computer and identity theft. The charges carry a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: Former DEA Public Affairs Officer scammed victims by posing falsely as covert CIA Officer involved in a highly-classified intelligence program.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and the majority staff of the House Natural Resources Committee today released a 47-page report outlining the Trump administration’s destruction of the Department of the Interior (DOI) and other agencies in the Committee’s jurisdiction and how to restore those agencies’ effectiveness and credibility.
