News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS, MO - United States District Judge Audrey G. Fleissig sentenced Justin McGee to 18 years in prison for robbing a dozen businesses. The 39-year-old St. Louis resident pleaded guilty in February to 12 robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal jury in Maryland yesterday convicted Nigerian national Seun Banjo Ojedokun, age 37, for a money laundering conspiracy related to a romance scam and other fraud schemes.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - An indictment and arrest warrant were unsealed today in the federal court of the District of Columbia charging Lirim Sylejmani, a Kosovo-born naturalized U.S. citizen, with conspiring to provide, providing, and attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization, and receiving training from ISIS, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2339B and 2339D.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: A man who robbed five Tulsa and Sand Springs businesses was sentenced Tuesday in federal court to 300 months in prison, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: ― Today the U.S. Census Bureau and Department of Housing and Urban Development released new housing data from the 2019 American Housing Survey (AHS) through the AHS Table Creator. The interactive data tool allows users to create custom tables of housing and demographic estimates for the nation, nine states and 25 metropolitan areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Philip K. Finley, of Clarksburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 228 months incarceration for drug distribution and firearms charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: Defendant Suffered Burns During Incident. WASHINGTON - Cody Michael Tarner, 23, of Hagerstown, Maryland, was indicted by a federal grand jury with multiple offenses related to his burning of two police cars and the attempted burning of a third police vehicle, announced Michael R. Sherwin, Acting U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: Burlington, Vermont - The Justice Department’s Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) announced today that it will direct over $6 million in grant funding to Vermont victims service organizations to curb domestic violence. These awards are part of a larger portfolio of new grants designed to help law enforcement, victim services providers, and prosecutors identify and assist victims at high risk for being killed by an abusive partner.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Seventeen people were charged with drug distribution in early September in a one-count indictment, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: Two Iranian Nationals Charged in Cyber Theft Campaign Targeting Computer Systems in United States, Europe, and the Middle East.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: House Democrats are advancing legislation they falsely characterize as an education bill. In reality, it’s a bill that radically rewrites the Civil Rights Act without any debate. Specifically, it creates a private right of action, which could lead to additional burdens on school systems and does nothing to eliminate the state’s ability to trap students in low-performing schools.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: An Auburn man was sentenced today in federal court in Portland for possessing a firearm after being convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: On Saturday, September 26 - National Public Lands Day - the National Park Service will celebrate the connection between people and green spaces in our community with virtual and distanced programming highlighting the importance of caring for our public lands and the health benefits these spaces provide.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - The former Enforcer of the Boston-based Devon Street Kings Chapter of the Massachusetts Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (“Latin Kings") pleaded guilty today to racketeering charges.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management has reopened the Junction City Campground west of Redding after a short temporary closure to the public while the facility was used as a base camp for firefighters working on the nearby Hobo Fire on the Shasta-Trinity National Forest. The fire has been contained after burning about 400 acres.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: MACON, Ga. - An Ellaville, Georgia man, found in possession of a stolen gun by Perry Police officers, pleaded guilty to his crime this week, said Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.p.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A former member of the New Bedford Chapter of the Massachusetts Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (“Latin Kings") pleaded guilty today to racketeering charges. The defendant admitted to participating in a June 2019 shooting of another Latin Kings member who was in bad standing with the gang.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: We have recently seen yet another manufactured crisis from Democrats.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Kevin Swing, a/k/a “Tone," 36, of West Chester, PA, was sentenced to 6 ½ years in prison and three years of supervised release by United States District Judge H. Slomsky, for his role in distributing more than 900 pills containing a dangerous fentanyl analogue, a Schedule I controlled substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Sept. 15, 2020, David A. Hay (age: 40) most recently of Brooklyn, New York, entered a guilty plea to a charge of receiving child pornography.
