News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Charges were unsealed today accusing a Tenderloin drug dealer of selling fentanyl that led to the overdose death of one individual and the hospitalization of another individual, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Assistant Special Agent in Charge Toby Schwartz of the Drug Enforcement Administration. Additional facts regarding the investigation and charges can be found here...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: ST. GEORGE, UT - Rashaan Mamao Matalolo of St. George, Utah, will spend 18 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to one count of possession of a firearm while subject to a domestic violence protective order. Under federal law, individuals subject to a domestic violence protective order are prohibited from possessing a firearm. U.S. District Judge David Nuffer imposed the sentence Wednesday morning in federal court in St. George.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS- U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme today announced $9,061,668 in Department of Justice grants to improve public safety, serve victims of crime and support youth programs in tribal communities in Montana.
By State Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today sent a letter to President Donald Trump requesting that the administration consider whether the Russian government poisoned Alexei Navalny with a chemical nerve agent.
By State Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Congresswoman Jackie Speier (CA-14), Co-Chair of the Democratic Women’s Caucus; Congressman Eliot Engel (NY-16), Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs; and Congressman Joaquin Castro (TX-20), Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations;...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior United States District Judge John Antoon II has sentenced Josten Rakeem-Hassan Brown (28, Greenville, SC) to 20 months in federal prison for using an unauthorized access device (credit card). Two other defendants have also been sentenced in connection with the offense. Kenbee...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury yesterday returned an indictment charging Brandon Goforth, age 36, of Baltimore, Maryland, with possession of a firearm and ammunition by a prohibited person. A federal complaint was filed on Sept. 25, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Sept. 29, 2020, Michael Sean Riley, age 52, of Ocala, Florida, was sentenced to 72 months’ imprisonment and ordered to forfeit up to $800,000, by United States District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner for his role in a money laundering conspiracy involving $800,000 in drug proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Lithonia, Georgia, has been sentenced in federal court to 42 months in jail on her conviction of conspiracy to commit wire and bank fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today. Restitution will be determined at a later date.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - A Kentucky man who stole a truck and drug the vehicle’s owner alongside the vehicle has been charged federally, announced U.S. Attorney Russell Coleman.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS-A Nevada man convicted of trafficking methamphetamine after an investigation in which he distributed the drug during an undercover purchase was sentenced today to five years in prison and four years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.6 million grant to the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, Chauvin, Louisiana, to help build flood-resilient infrastructure at the new Marine Operations...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger announced today that Industries for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Inc., (IBI) has agreed to pay more than $1.9 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Act in connection with certain federal contracts set aside to employ blind or visually-impaired workers.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn announced that Jenaireo Wade of Colorado Springs was sentenced to serve 60 months (5 years) in federal prison followed by 3 years on supervised release for possession of a 9mm pistol during a drug trafficking crime. The Denver Division of the FBI joined in this announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: Ran from Police with a Loaded Gun in his Waistband.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox announced today that 17 individuals have been arrested in the Eastern District of Texas pursuant to a federal indictment which alleges drug trafficking and firearms violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: Clare Bronfman, a high-ranking member of Nxivm’s Executive Board, was sentenced by United States District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis today in federal court in Brooklyn to 81 months’ imprisonment for conspiracy to conceal and harbor aliens for financial gain and fraudulent use of personal identification...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - In order to address the incidence of violent crimes against women, W. Stephen Muldrow, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, announced the creation of a working group comprised of state and federal agencies, non-profit organizations and higher learning institutions...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - A Eugene Springfield Fire Department paramedic has been charged with illegally obtaining controlled substances from a local pharmacy and using them to drug and rape multiple female victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: Orlando, FL - U.S. District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza has sentenced Anthony Kenty Soto-Lopes (39, Orlando) to 11 years and 3 months in federal prison for aiding and abetting the making of a false statement to a licensed firearms dealer, and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. In January 2020, Judge ...
