News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today that ADAM ROGAS, the co-founder and former CEO, CFO, and member...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new method called the Phish Scale that could help organizations better train their employees to avoid a particularly dangerous form of cyberattack known as phishing.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: Grant will allow Laguna Pueblo and the U.S. Attorney’s Office to appoint a Special Assistant United States Attorney.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: Scranton, PA - Today, United States Marshal Martin J. Pane announced the arrest of Wayne White, a 48-year old Wilkes-Barre man.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $988,400 grant to Northwest New Mexico Council of Governments (NWNMCOG), Gallup, New Mexico, to support the second phase of the Building Resilient Communities in Northwest New Mexico program,...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated Caddo County, Oklahoma, 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 | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS, MO - Chief United States District Judge Rodney W. Sippel sentenced Roy William Burris, Jr., 40, of Paramount, California, to 25 years in prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: EUGENE, Ore.-U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams announced today that a Colorado man has been charged with a hate crime after stabbing a Black man from Ontario, Oregon while the man was sitting in a fast food restaurant.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on charges of theft of government property, food stamp fraud and false statement to the government, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - A Naperville man was arrested today on a federal child pornography charge for allegedly enticing an underage boy to produce sexually explicit videos and photos of himself.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - A former Harris County judge has admitted to embezzling funds received during her re-election campaigns, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick and Special Agent in Charge Perrye K. Turner of the FBI Houston Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: Southern District of Mississippi Launches “Operation Pheonecia" to Combat Domestic Violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty plea of BRETT JAMES STIMAC, 41, to wildlife trafficking and trespassing on Indian land after removing the head of a 700 pound black bear on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. STIMAC, who was charged by misdemeanor Information on December 6, 2019, entered his guilty plea today before Judge Susan Richard Nelson in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - David Clay Fowlkes, First Assistant United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Shawn Schuckman, age 45, was sentenced today to 240 months in federal prison, followed by 4 years of supervised release for Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine. The Honorable Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Brooke Campbell Solis appeared today in U.S. Magistrate Court for arraignment and an initial federal court appearance on a criminal complaint charging her with wire fraud in connection with a scheme to embezzle funds from her former employer announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and FBI Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. She appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Virginia K. DeMarchi.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: OWENSBORO, Ky. - Seven defendants have been charged by a federal Grand Jury for dealing methamphetamine in and around Owensboro, Kentucky, announced United States Attorney Russell Coleman.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A former emergency medical technician at Mercy Medical Center pleaded guilty in federal court today to stealing fentanyl and hydromorphone from dozens of vials used by ambulances in Carthage and Mount Vernon, Missouri, and replacing the drugs with saline or water solution.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
Release: You never know what to expect when you report for duty with TSA. Most of us never foresee finding ourselves in a life or death situation, especially in the TSA breakroom.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: FBI Releases Cybersecurity Advisory on Previously Undisclosed Iranian Malware Used to Monitor Dissidents and Travel and Telecommunications Companies.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A Perry County man was sentenced in U.S. District Court today for illegally possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
