News from October 2020
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 28-year-old registered sex offender from Southeast Texas pleaded guilty Thursday to sending photos depicting the sexual exploitation of children under the age of 10.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was indicted yesterday for being a felon in possession of a loaded 9mm semi-automatic pistol.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Cape May, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 180 months in prison for distributing approximately 300 grams of crystal methamphetamine and thousands of pills containing heroin and/or fentanyl, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: Winnemucca, Nev. -- The Winnemucca District will have Christmas tree cutting permits available for purchase until Dec. 24 through the Winnemucca District Office, 5100 E. Winnemucca Blvd., Monday through Friday only by email wfoweb@blm.gov or via phone, 775-623-1500, due to COVID-19 restrictions. Christmas...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: Acting United States Attorneys Audrey Strauss and Seth DuCharme announced today that Assistant United States Attorneys (AUSAs) will lead the efforts of their Offices in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming Nov. 3, 2020, general election. AUSA Erik...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: Faces a 10-Year Minimum Term of Imprisonment if Convicted on All Counts.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Monmouth County, New Jersey, man today admitted to being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Texas woman was sentenced today to 60 months in federal prison for her leading role in an opioid buy-back scheme in which a doctor at a Los Angeles clinic prescribed opioids to “patients" who sold the narcotics back to the clinic, which later sold drugs on the black market in California and Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, joins Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian C. Rabbitt of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division in announcing five individuals were charged in an indictment based upon their alleged participation in a scheme to file fraudulent...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, has returned the following indictments. 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 22, 2020
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - The owner of a chain of Mexican seafood restaurants pleaded guilty this afternoon to criminal charges for obstructing a federal investigation into his failure to pay minimum wage and overtime to his employees.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant today announced $398,864 in Department of Justice grant funding awarded to the Shelby County District Attorney’s Office to hire special prosecutors to try federal firearms cases originating in Memphis. The award supports violence reduction efforts as part ...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Assistant Director Bob Kolasky, U.S. Election Assistance Commission Chair Ben Hovland, National Association of Secretaries of State President and New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver, National Association of State Election...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that Jeremy Rubin, 32, of Lafayette, Louisiana, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Robert R. Summerhays to 52 months (4 years, 4 months) in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release. Rubin pleaded guilty on July 24, 2020 to being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was indicted yesterday for being a felon in possession of a loaded 9mm semi-automatic pistol.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: Goldman Sachs Malaysia Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Violate the FCPA.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ) requested the Internal Revenue Service respond to their concerns over the agency’s preparedness for the upcoming tax filing season due to ongoing backlogs that resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - After a three-day jury trial with proper COVID-19 health and safety protocols, Jeremy Fields, 35, was found guilty as charged for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the guilty verdict in what was the second post-COVID-19 federal trial held in Memphis.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Seattle man pleaded guilty today to one count of wire fraud for carrying out a scheme to defraud several COVID-19 relief programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard has sentenced Nicholas Paul Mattox (50, Jacksonville) to 10 years in federal prison for distribution of 50 grams or more of actual methamphetamine, and Keith Wallace Williams (61, Middleburg) to 5 years in federal prison for possession with...
