News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - The owner of a Cassville, Missouri waterslide attraction has pleaded guilty in federal court to making a false tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - A Ville Platte man was sentenced today by United States District Judge Robert R. Summerhays for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Five members of the United Blood Nation (UBN or Bloods) street gang were sentenced in Charlotte, North Carolina, after standing trial on federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) conspiracy and other charges. These defendants’ sentences are the culmination of a prosecution that charged 83 UBN gang members in the Western District of North Carolina with RICO conspiracy and other crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS - Tamara Jo Nyachira of Pittsburg, Kansas, was sentenced today to three years’ probation, a $5,000 fine and 100 hours of community service after pleading guilty to obtaining narcotic opioid prescription drugs with forged prescriptions before Chief United States District Judge Rodney W. Sippel.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS, MO- United States Attorney Jeff Jensen announced today that Assistant United States Attorneys (AUSAs) Jennifer Roy and Hal Goldsmith will lead the efforts of his Office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming Nov. 3, 2020, general election.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. -United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced the establishment of an Election Day hotline in coordination with the U.S. Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day program for the general election on Nov. 3, 2020. The hotline number is (603) 230-2503.
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: SANTA ANA, California - Federal prosecutors today filed criminal charges against an Irvine man whose company used high-pressure sales tactics to raise more than $9.5 million with bogus claims that the outfit’s solar panels utilized nanotechnology to generate electricity three times more efficiently than traditional solar panels.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Robert C. “Bobby" Scott, the Chairman of the Committee on Education and Labor, released new documents detailing how the Department of Education froze a tool designed to ease the Borrower Defense application process for borrowers who were ripped off by their schools, typically for-profit colleges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Middletown, R.I., man currently serving a term of federal supervised release having been convicted and incarcerated for robbing four banks, admitted in federal court in Providence today to fraudulently seeking more than $4.7 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) forgivable loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - On Oct. 20, 2020, three co-conspirators were arrested on the federal charge of conspiracy to unlawfully manufacture, possess, and distribute various weapons, ammunition, and suppressors. Liam Montgomery Collins, 21, and Paul James Kryscuk, 35, recently of Boise, Idaho, were charged via...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: DUBLIN, GA: Three men, one of them a prison inmate, have been indicted for attempting to use a drone to smuggle contraband into a Georgia state prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that MARVEL FRANCOIS (“FRANCOIS"), age 51, of Houma, Louisiana, entered a plea of guilty today to Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371, arising out of staged automobile accidents with tractor-trailers occurring in New Orleans.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: A Non-Filer, He Used Offshore Insurance Wrappers and Precious Metals in an Effort to Conceal Assets.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: A Sanford man was sentenced in federal court in Portland for transferring obscene material to a minor, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Rhode Island man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for five bank robberies, including one that resulted in a high-speed chase.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA), and Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) wrote to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) raising...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Tamara Jo Nyachira, of Pittsburg, Kansas, was sentenced today to three years’ probation, a $5,000 fine and 100 hours of community service after pleading guilty to obtaining narcotic opioid prescription drugs with forged prescriptions before Chief United States District Judge Rodney W. Sippel.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan, and Rep. Don Young, all R-Alaska, today issued the following statements after the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released its Record of Decision for the Willow Master Development Plan in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that JOSE DAVID SANCHEZ, age 24, a native of Honduras, was charged on Oct. 23, 2020 in a one-count indictment with illegal use of a Social Security number in order to obtain employment, in violation of Title 42, United States Code, Section 408(a)(7)(B).
