News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Larry Casper (619) 546-6734.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today that Assistant U.S. Attorneys Allan Urgent, Mark McCarren and Gabriel Vidoni will lead the efforts of his Office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: HONOLULU, Hawaii -Anthony T. Williams, 49, of Pineville, Louisiana was sentenced today in federal court by U.S. District Judge Leslie E. Kobayashi to 240 months’ imprisonment for wire fraud and mail fraud in connection with a fraudulent mortgage relief scheme. A federal jury convicted Williams on March 3, 2020 of 32 counts of wire fraud and mail fraud after a four week trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon announced today that Assistant United States Attorneys (AUSAs) Michael F. Perry and Joshua R. Rosenthal will lead the efforts of the Northern District of New York in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated Litchfield County, Connecticut, as a primary natural disaster area. Producers 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 26, 2020
News Release: Ocala, FL - Senior United States District Judge John Antoon II has sentenced Malcolm Straughter (35, Ocala) to four years and six months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. The Court also ordered Straughter to forfeit the firearm and any associated ammunition. Straughter had pleaded guilty on July 14, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan today sentenced Lonnie Lawrence Mercer, Jr. (42, Jacksonville) to 20 years in federal prison, and a 15-year term of supervised release, for possessing images of child sexual abuse. Mercer had pleaded guilty on July 5, 2020.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: OCEAN SPRINGS, MS. - Gulf Islands National Seashore announces the Davis Bayou Area and Mississippi islands including, Ship, Horn, Petit Bois, and West Petit Bois islands, as well as the NPS-owned portion of Cat Island will close today, Monday, October 26 at 5:00 pm, in anticipation of intense winds...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Javier Felix Bayardo, a resident of Sinaloa, Mexico who was living in the San Diego area, was sentenced in federal court today to 17 years in custody for his role as the organizer of drug and money- laundering conspiracies and for possessing firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Ferlando Wadsworth, 38, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, appeared in federal court today on charges of assault with a dangerous weapon, discharging a firearm during a crime of violence and unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Wadsworth will remain in custody pending trial.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C., Oct. 26, 2020 - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced that in the first month of the application period, the USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) approved more than $7 billion in payments to producers in the second round of the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program. CFAP 2 provides agricultural producers with financial assistance to help absorb some of the increased marketing costs associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal judge today sentenced a Madison man for robbing a bank and possessing a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A United States Postal Service employee has been charged for willfully obstructing the passage of mail, announced U.S. Attorney Russell Coleman.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - Two Lynn men were sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with drug and firearm charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama joined Mobile Police Chief Lawrence L. Battiste, Mobile County Sheriff Sam Cochran, DEA Special Agent in Charge Brad L. Byerley, HSI Special Agent in Charge Katrina W. Berger, ATF Acting Special Agent in Charge Toby Taylor, and ...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
Release: AVOCA, Pa. - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers stopped a woman from bringing a handgun onto an airplane at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport on Sunday, Oct. 25.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - The U.S. Attorney’s Office will monitor the federal, state, and local elections in Chicago and surrounding area on Nov. 3, 2020, John R. Lausch, Jr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - An Orange County man was sentenced today to 46 months in federal prison for running a program that purported to offer short-term loans, but was nothing more than an investment scam that caused more than $3 million in losses to victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Egisto Salerno, M.D., a San Diego resident, was sentenced to 18 months in custody by U.S. District Judge Cynthia Ann Bashant for causing the illegal distribution of an opioid pain medication commonly known as Norco or Vicodin.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: KREMMLING, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management, Kremmling Field Office has reopened BLM public lands in the Strawberry Special Recreation Management Area, a BLM parcel south of Lake Granby at Walden Hollow, and BLM managed lands south of U.S. 40 and north of GCR 55. BLM public lands Jackson County...
