News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Kenneth J. Monahan, age 45, of Menands, New York, was sentenced on Monday to serve 96 months in prison for distributing, receiving and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - Former Illinois State Sen. TERRANCE P. LINK pleaded guilty today to a federal tax charge and admitted willfully underreporting his income for several years.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - Yang Yang (34, Jacksonville) has pleaded guilty to conspiring to submit false export information through the federal government’s Automated Export System and to fraudulently export to China maritime raiding craft and engines in violation of United States (U.S.) law, and also to attempting to fraudulently export that equipment in violation of U.S. law. Yang faces a maximum penalty of 15 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Andres Rafael Viola, 36, an Argentine citizen residing in Las Vegas, was sentenced today to 35 years in federal prison for repeatedly sexually assaulting a child, producing images of the sexual abuse, and possessing hundreds of images and videos of child sexual assault, announced U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: Two men who allegedly purchased sex from a 13-year-old trafficking victim have been arrested and charged with child sex trafficking, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Trenton man was sentenced today to 204 months in prison for his role as a supplier to a significant drug trafficking conspiracy that distributed more than one kilogram of heroin in Trenton and the surrounding area, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar today sentenced MS-13 gang member Danny Hernandez Solarzano, a/k/a Titre, age 22, of Montgomery County, Maryland, to 210 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise, in connection with his gang activities, including two attempted murders and drug distribution.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: Montana Broker Sentenced to Prison for Multimillion-Dollar Investment-Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville Woman Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Illegally Exporting Maritime Raiding Craft and Engines to China.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Montana man was sentenced to 87 months in prison Tuesday for his role in a multimillion-dollar international investment-fraud conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A Park City man, who claimed to have access to millions of N95 masks made by 3M and made allegedly fraudulent representations in an effort to sell them, is charged with wire fraud in an indictment unsealed Tuesday in Salt Lake City.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A Magna, Utah, man is charged with threatening to assault and murder a Department of Veterans Affairs police officer while he was engaged in the performance of his official duties and with intent to retaliate against the officer on account of the performance of his official duties. The officer’s teenage daughter found the threat in the victim’s mail box on June 7, 2020.
By State Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Wednesday, 21 members of the Texas Delegation, joined by Leader McCarthy, introduced a resolution calling for the release of Trevor Reed, a United States Marine Corps veteran. Reed, who grew up in Tehachapi, California and now calls Granbury, Texas home, is currently detained as a...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - An operator of the Wamego Wastewater Treatment Facility was indicted today on federal charges of violating the Clean Water Act, said U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An Oregon man was sentenced today to 42 months in prison for his role in a $4 million bribery and fraud scheme related to a number of Department of Defense contracts to provide support services for the recovery and rehabilitation of wounded military veterans.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: Grant awards made through the Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: The Ocracoke Campground will stay open at Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore) after its customary seasonal closure. The campground usually closes after Thanksgiving weekend, but this year the campground will stay open the entire year.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Douglas Fountain, age 31, of Colonie, New York, was sentenced yesterday to a total of 80 years in prison for 11 felony convictions, including sexually exploiting a child, transporting child pornography, and possessing child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee nominated Congressman Cedric Richmond (D-LA) to serve on the Ways and Means Committee...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A Magna, Utah, man is charged with threatening to assault and murder a Department of Veterans Affairs police officer while he was engaged in the performance of his official duties and with intent to retaliate against the officer on account of the performance of his official duties. The officer’s teenage daughter found the threat in the victim’s mail box on June 7, 2020.
