News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2020
News Release: US Seeks Alleged Leader Wilver Villegas-Palomino.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd sentenced Marco Lizandro Duarte-Beltran, 34, of Michoacán, Mexico, today to 10 years in prison for conspiring to manufacture, distribute, and possess with intent to distribute marijuana, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2020
News Release: Indictment Charges Alaska Man for Threatening a California Synagogue.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2020
News Release: DOLORES, Colo. - Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, Inc. (Tri-State) is preparing to relocate a segment of transmission line across the Dolores River Canyon, with work expected to occur from September 28 through the end of October, including on BLM-administered public lands in the Tres Rios Field Office. To ensure public safety, Tri-State will control traffic ingress and egress through the area during the four-week construction period.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - The U.S. Marshals Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force (GLRFTF) is seeking the public’s help in apprehending a man wanted for a 1998 murder in East Chicago, Indiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2020
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020, Nayef Amjad Qashou, a 26-year-old man residing in Auburn, Alabama, was sentenced to 57 months in prison for making false statements to the FBI during a terrorism investigation, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. and FBI Special Agent in Charge James Jewell. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - Twelve defendants have been charged in a mortgage fraud scheme allegedly spanning more than four years and resulting in the approval of more than 100 mortgages based on fabricated documents and false information. Many of the loans are insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) resulting in claims being paid for mortgages that have gone through loan modification.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2020
News Release: BROOKLYN, NY - A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Baimadajie Angwang, a New York City Police Department officer and United States Army reservist, with acting as an illegal agent of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) as well as committing wire fraud, making...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Billy Joe West, 57, of Las Vegas, was sentenced today to four years and nine months in federal prison for soliciting and accepting bribes from convicted felons on federal supervised release in exchange for concealing their positive and missed drug tests, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich of the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2020
News Release: The Honorable William K. Sessions III sentenced Brian Folks, 45, to twenty-two years and six months in prison today, followed by ten years of supervision upon release. A federal jury in Burlington, Vermont, previously found Folks guilty of 13 federal felonies after a nearly three-week trial back in May...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2020
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Wolf Point man accused of selling meth in a casino on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation admitted methamphetamine trafficking charges today, U.S...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - Two Connecticut men were charged in federal court in Springfield on Friday, Sept. 18, 2020 in connection with the theft of 17 firearms from a firearms store in West Springfield.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2020
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Cindy Cipriani (619) 546-9608.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2020
News Release: U.S. Taxpayer in Panama Papers Investigation Sentenced to Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Ramon Howard, 37, Portage, Wisconsin, was sentenced Friday, Sept. 18, by U.S. District Judge William Conley to nine years in federal prison for three bank robberies. Howard pleaded guilty to these charges on June 25, 2020.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 21, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued the following statement after the Department of Commerce Inspector General issued a new Management Alert warning that “the accelerated schedule increases the risks to the accuracy of the 2020 Census."
By Labor Gazette | Sep 20, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Last week, the U.S. Department of Labor took a range of actions to aid American workers and employers as our nation combats the coronavirus pandemic.
By Labor Gazette | Sep 20, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Last week, the U.S. Department of Labor took a range of actions to aid American workers and employers as our nation combats the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 20, 2020
News Release: U.S. Secretary of Labor Scalia Highlights Economic Reopening in Cincinnati, Ohio - "It was great to be back in Ohio and see the progress being made in safely re-opening our economy," said U.S. Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia. "I was pleased to visit Consolidated Metals Products and learn about the steps...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 20, 2020
News Release: SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS, Calif. Sept. 19, 2020 - Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks continue to have two active fires burning in designated wilderness with no threats to people or property. The Rattlesnake and Moraine Fires were both caused by lighting and continue to show slow and minor fire growth. The Rattlesnake Fire is 2,078 acres and the Moraine Fire is 575 acres.
