News from October 2020
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.2 million grant to Forward Cody Wyoming, Inc., Cody, Wyoming, to expand a facility in the North Cody Industrial Park that serves meat processors. The EDA...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: Washington Man Charged With COVID-Relief Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Mike Avery Thompson, Jr., age 30, of Okemah, Oklahoma entered a guilty plea to Assault With A Dangerous Weapon With Intent To Commit Bodily Harm In Indian Country, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 113(a)(3), 1151 and 1153, punishable by not more than 10 years imprisonment, a fine up to $250,000.00, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announced today that the Chief of the Financial Fraud & Corruption Section, Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Seth Erbe, will lead the efforts of his Office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming November...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Tirale Orlando Reed, 38, of Meridian, Mississippi, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Court Judge David C. Bramlette III to 60 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for possession of a firearm in a school zone, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Kurt Thielhorn, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: Cincinnati - Today, the Office of Environmental Management (EM) is awarding an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract for Information Systems Technical Support Services to Tuknik Government Services LLC, (Chantilly, VA) an 8(a) Alaska Native Corporation. The IDIQ contract value is $15...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: “Today, Jackson Police Department Chief James E. Davis announced JPD’s ‘Operation Unity’ to saturate the City of Jackson with state and local law enforcement over the next two weeks. I was told about this operation on Friday by one of my federal prosecutors, and I called Chief Davis to advise him against...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS - A Pryor man was arrested Tuesday in Billings by the Billings Police Department on a federal arrest warrant alleging that he murdered a person with premeditation on the Crow Indian Reservation, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 42-year-old Houston man has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of money laundering through wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced today that on Friday, Oct. 23, 2020, CHRISTOPHER ARANA, age 26, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana was charged in a one-count indictment by a federal grand jury. ARANA is charged with Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama joined.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Beam Suntory Inc., a Chicago-based company that produces and sells distilled beverages, has agreed to pay a criminal monetary penalty of $19,572,885 to resolve the Department of Justice’s investigation into violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges related to her theft of Social Security benefits, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A 39 year-old Newport man has been ordered detained following his arrest this morning on federal child pornography charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal grand jury in Greensboro, North Carolina, returned an indictment today, charging a North Carolina couple with federal employment tax and individual income tax violations, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Matthew G.T. Martin for the Middle District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: MORGANTOWN, WEST VIRGINIA - Twenty-five people from four states are facing charges in a drug trafficking operation that dealt with methamphetamine, crack cocaine, fentanyl, and heroin, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: Due to the accumulated snow that the current October winter storm has brought to New Mexico, Frijoles Canyon will be closed on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020. This includes the Pueblo Loop Trail (cavates and ladders) and the Alcove House. The park visitor center, park store and café, all located in Frijoles...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: A couple from Detroit was charged today with participating in a multi-million dollar unemployment insurance fraud scheme aimed at defrauding the State of Michigan and the U.S. Government of funds earmarked for unemployment assistance during the COVID19 pandemic, announced United States Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: MACON, Ga. - The former office manager of a computer services company in Warner Robins, Georgia was sentenced to federal prison today for embezzling nearly $1.4 million from the business, forging 419 checks during the nine year scheme, said Charlie Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: A Biddeford man was sentenced in federal court in Portland for his role in a series of racially motivated assaults against black men in Maine, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
