News from September 2020
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: FORT WAYNE - Troy Topp, age 25, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, was sentenced before U.S. District Court Judge Holly A. Brady following his plea of guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - As a result of extreme fire activity, the Bureau of Land Management Northwest Oregon District has temporarily closed all recreation sites and certain roads through September 30.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: Washington - As part of its commitment to ensuring fair and competitive markets for the livestock, meat, and poultry industries, on Aug. 27, 2020, a Judicial Officer issued a decision in favor of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) against Quinter Livestock Market LLC (Quinter) of Quinter, Kan., and Clint Kvasnicka (Kvasnicka) of Kansas, for violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
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 DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two Iranian nationals have been charged in connection with a coordinated cyber intrusion campaign - sometimes at the behest of the government of Iran - targeting computers in New Jersey and around the world, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
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: 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: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the unsealing of a 16-count indictment charging Steven Chun (57, Sarasota) and Daniel Tondre (50, Tampa) with conspiring to pay and receiving kickbacks in connection with prescribing a fentanyl spray. Chun is also charged with five counts...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation executed another set of congressionally mandated contract conversions with Central Valley Project contractors, which provides water to families, farms and communicates in their respective areas. These contracts are in agreement with the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Administrator David Pekoske was at the TSA Systems Integration Facility (TSIF) Tuesday to meet with the local TSA workforce and conduct one of his regular virtual town hall meetings, which was broadcast to agency employees nationwide.
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: ST. LOUIS, MO - United States Judge John A. Ross sentenced Ryan Palmieri to 80 months in prison for child enticement. The 37 year old is a resident of Charleston, South Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced the indictment yesterday of a Scranton doctor, Kurt Moran, age 68, on charges related to receiving healthcare kickbacks and unlawfully distributing controlled substances, including distributions resulting in death. Moran is scheduled to appear before United States Magistrate Judge Karoline Mehalchick at 3:00pm on Sept. 16, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: Co-conspirators Convinced Vulnerable Elderly Victims to Send Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars to Bank Accounts, Which the Defendant then Helped to Launder.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Robert Notto, 26, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of distribution of child pornography, was sentenced to serve 108 months in prison by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
Release: Washington, D.C., Sept. 16, 2020-The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is proposing changes to the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) regulations to reduce the administrative burden for research facilities, while ensuring that research animals ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: HARRISONBURG, Va. - Casey Harvey, a Luray, Va. Man who conspired with others to traffic large quantities of methamphetamine from Oklahoma into the Western District of Virginia for redistribution, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Harrisonburg to 66 months in federal prison. Acting United States Attorney Daniel P. Bubar and Jesse Fong, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Washington Field Division announced the sentence today.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today chaired a hearing to consider the nominations of Mark Christie and Allison Clements to be Members of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
By Interior Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The Bureau of Reclamation is providing $27 million over the next five years to the Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority to continue work on a water system that will provide clean, reliable water for approximately 70,000 Eastern New Mexico residents. Reclamation will provide $14.75 million in fiscal year 2020. The remaining amount will be provided over the following four years as funds are available.
