News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Passaic County, New Jersey, woman today admitted participating in a scheme that involved the creation of false documentation to secure over $4 million in bank loans, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on Oct. 26, 2020, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: TYLER, Texas - U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox announced that a 40-year-old Ore City, Texas man has been sentenced to 840 months in federal prison for child exploitation violations in the Eastern District of Texas.
By State Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) yesterday in introducing a bipartisan resolution to designate human rights abuses perpetrated by the People’s Republic of China ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: Oregon FBI Tech Tuesday: Building a Digital Defense Against Election Spoofing.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Damien Hayes, 25, of Natchez, pled guilty today before Senior U.S. District Judge David Bramlette III to possessing a stolen firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Kurt Thielhorn, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced today that Assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin Khasigian will serve as the District Election Officer (DEO) for the Eastern District of California in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the Nov. 3 general...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, October 27. 2020 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today published the 2019 Pesticide Data Program (PDP) Annual Summary. The summary shows that nearly 99 percent of the samples tested had pesticide residues below benchmark levels established by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: Fairfax, VA - Today, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, Chairwoman of the Oversight and Reform Committee, and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, introduced the Saving the Civil Service Act, legislation to reverse President Trump’s executive order that would remove important civil service protections and make it easier for the Administration to unfairly retaliate against federal employees.
By DOE 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 State Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: Bronx, NY-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today released the following statement calling on the Trump Administration to protect the U.S. judiciary, and the judicial systems of its democratic allies, from corrupt and abusive infiltration by agents of the Russian Federation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: Dual U.S./Swiss Citizen Convicted of Fraudulently Soliciting Millions In Investment Scheme To Purportedly Export Diamonds and Gold From Africa.
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: BOSTON - A former supervisor of security operations for eBay’s European and Asian offices pleaded guilty today to his role in a cyberstalking campaign targeting a Natick, Mass. couple who published a newsletter that eBay executives viewed as critical of the company.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement in response to the U.S. Department of Treasury’s (Treasury) decision to ensure payments to the New York Fire Department (FDNY) World Trade Center Health Program would no longer be subject to offsets for unrelated federal debts owed by New York City...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: TEXARKANA, Texas - A 38-year-old Bowie County man has been sentenced to federal prison for federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The United States Attorneys for the Eastern District of California, Central District of California, and Southern District of California and the District Attorneys of Sacramento, Alameda, Ventura, and San Diego counties launched an online outreach campaign to help victims of domestic...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: El fiscal federal W. Stephen Muldrow anunció hoy que el Jefe de la Sección de Fraude Financiero y Corrupción, el fiscal federal auxiliar (AUSA, por sus siglas en inglés) Seth Erbe, liderará los esfuerzos de su oficina relacionados con el Programa del Día de las Elecciones del Departamento de Justicia...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: TYLER, Texas - U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox announced that a 40-year-old Ore City, Texas man has been sentenced to 840 months in federal prison for child exploitation violations in the Eastern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the arrest of Ihor Radionov (51, Alpharetta, Georgia) pursuant to an indictment charging him with conspiracy and smuggling goods out of the United States in violation of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations. If convicted on all counts, Radionov faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. On Oct. 26, 2020, Radionov made his first appearance in federal court in Atlanta, Georgia.
