News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: A complaint and arrest warrants were unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging eight defendants with conspiring to act in the United States as illegal agents of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Six defendants also face related charges of conspiring to commit interstate and international...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Aaron Reed, 30, of Grants, New Mexico, was sentenced Oct. 22 to six years and four months in federal prison after pleading guilty to attempting to possess contraband in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bergen County, New Jersey, man made his initial court appearance today on charges of conspiring to commit money laundering, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: Mammoth Cave National Park has completed the Development Concept Plan and Environmental Assessment (DCP&EA) for the Houchin Ferry area with a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI). The signed FONSI and final DCP&EA can be viewed on the park’s Planning, Environment, and Public Comment (PEPC) website at parkplanning.nps.gov/houchinferry.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: Defendant Allegedly Received Disability Payments While Concealing Lucrative Employment.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman announced that a federal grand jury sitting in Cleveland has returned a nine-count indictment charging David C. Johnson, age 33, of Euclid with four counts of robbery, four counts of brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated four Connecticut counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Hartford, New London, Tolland and Windham 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 Commerce Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: Dear Fellow Committee Members: The last few years have brought about an increasing number of stories that give me concern about the state of academic freedom in the Nation’s colleges and universities. In August 2019, former Yale Law School dean and current professor Anthony Kronman wrote in the Wall...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that NATHANIEL RODRIGUEZ, 24, formerly of Enfield, Connecticut and Holyoke, Massachusetts, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to 45 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang today sentenced Mark Lambert, age 57, of Mount Airy, Maryland, to four years in federal prison, followed by THREE years of supervised release, after his conviction at trial on four counts of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Faizal Bhimani, age 43, and Nazim Hassam, age 64, both of Bartonsville, Pennsylvania, Om Sri Sai, Inc., a Pennsylvania corporation, and the Pocono Plaza Inn hotel, formerly known as the Quality Inn, located in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania were convicted on Oct. 23, 2020, of sex trafficking and drug trafficking charges after a two-week jury trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: Former President of Nuclear Transportation Company Sentenced to Prison for Foreign Bribery and Other Offenses.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) and Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD) are working with partners and seeking the public’s help in addressing the threat of brown trout in the Colorado River. Beginning Nov. 11, 2020, the National Park Service at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area will implement...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation announces the selection of four funding award recipients to implement $40 million in salmon habitat improvement projects along the Sacramento River. The restoration projects will enhance and improve spawning and rearing habitat for salmon at approximately 25 different locations across 132 river miles.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: FBI Seeks Identity of Serial Armed Bank Robbery Suspect.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA: An Augusta man and his daughter have been charged in a 49-count federal indictment with filing fraudulently inflated tax returns on behalf of clients.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Daniel C. Silva (619) 546-9713 and Mark W. Pletcher (619) 546-9714.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Charles Daye, 28, of Nashua, pleaded guilty in federal court on Tuesday to possession of fentanyl with intent to distribute and distribution of fentanyl, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
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.
