News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - U.S. District Judge Marcia M. Howard has sentenced Benjamin Hank Ratliff (37, Lake City) to 15 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine. The court also ordered Ratliff to forfeit a 2011 Lexus, which he had used to facilitate the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - Jeremy Pruitt, 33, has been sentenced to 92 months in federal prison for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the sentence today.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Today, the Bureau of Reclamation continues to build on President Trump’s Memorandum on Developing and Delivering More Water Supplies in California, which he signed in Bakersfield, in February. Reclamation and Friant Water Authority released its plan to repair a 33-mile stretch of...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty plea of BENJAMIN JOSEPH ROGGENBUCK, 38, to two counts of production and attempted production of child pornography. ROGGENBUCK, who was indicted on Aug. 10, 2020, entered his plea on Sept. 17, 2020, before Judge Nancy E. Brasel in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota. ROGGENBUCK will be sentenced at a later date.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS, MO - On Sept. 17, 2020, at the conclusion of a four-day jury trial, Travis Broeker, 36, of St. Louis County, was found guilty of the crimes of distribution of fentanyl resulting in death and conspiracy to distribute fentanyl. United States District Judge Henry E. Autrey has set sentencing for January 6, 2021 at 11:30 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A former Holyoke kindergarten teacher was sentenced today in federal court in Worcester for possession of child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: House Ways and Means Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee Chairman Mike Thompson announced today that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing on “Restaurants in America During the COVID-19 Pandemic" on Friday, Sept. 25, 2020 at 9:00 A.M EDT.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) released the following statement today after the Trump White House blocked Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Stephen Hahn, M.D., from testifying before the Energy and Commerce Committee...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A Michigan man was sentenced to federal prison for participating in a drug trafficking organization (DTO) in Raleigh County, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Clifford Howell, 31, of Eastpointe, Michigan, was sentenced to 60 months in prison, to be followed by a five-year term of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: Orlando, Florida -A federal jury has found Wilmer Eduardo Mejia-Palacios (36, Orlando) guilty of four counts of making a false statement to a federally licensed firearms dealer. Mejia-Palacios faces up to five years in federal prison on each count. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for Dec. 16, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: Jackson, TN - After a 3-day jury trial with proper COVID-19 health and safety protocols,William Farrell Russell, 47, has been found guilty of possession and distribution of child pornography depicting the sexual abuse of children under twelve years of age. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the guilty verdict today.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Aviation Subcommittee Rick Larsen (D-WA) called attention to a new audit from the U.S. Department of Transportation Office of Inspector General (OIG), which examined whether...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS, MO - Dr. Thomas Hobbs and Dr. Vivian Carbone-Hobbs of Jefferson County were indicted with two members of their office staff, a former union representative of Anheuser-Busch In Bev, and five patients with conspiring to fraudulently obtain disability benefits from the Social Security Administration...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced today the indictment of nine additional defendants bringing the total to twenty-eight charged for intentionally staging automobile accidents. Today’s indictment charges CORNELIUS GARRISON (“GARRISON"), age 54, of New Orleans...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that PAMELA HILL, 55, of Simsbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffery A. Meyer in New Haven to 41 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for embezzling approximately $584,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JORGE OQUENDO, also known as “G," 35, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in Hartford to 57 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing PCP.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that William Johnson, 34, of Philadelphia, PA was convicted today at trial of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, arising from an incident in which Philadelphia police officers recovered a weapon that Johnson had tried to discard while attempting to evade capture.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA- United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Thomas J. Whalen, D.O., 65, of Berwyn, PA, has agreed to pay the United States $1,257,499.00 to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act that he submitted or caused the submission of false claims to federal health care plans...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2020
News Release: Miami, Fl. - Federal prosecutors have charged 23-year-old twin brothers Devon Cooke and Donavan Cooke, of Miami Gardens, with carjacking and kidnapping after they allegedly abducted and assaulted a man in an attempt to collect ransom money.
