News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: A New Bern man was convicted after a three (3) day federal trial. A jury returned guilty verdicts against Carlos Green, 33, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine, 280 grams or more of crack cocaine and 500 grams or more of cocaine...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Leon Mandigo, 33, of Auburn, pleaded guilty in federal court to drug trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: FBI New Orleans Warns of Fraudsters Who May Capitalize on Natural Disasters.
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: BOSTON - The former owner of two Worcester restaurants was sentenced today in federal court in Worcester for conspiring with her restaurant manager to use drug proceeds to renovate and operate her Shrewsbury Street restaurant.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Thadduse Hartridge, 19, of Washington, D.C. was sentenced on Sept. 16, 2020 by the Honorable Judge Judith A. Smith of the Superior Court for the District of Columbia to 102 months’ (8 ½ years’) incarceration to be followed by three years of supervised release, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Michael R. Sherwin, and Peter Newsham, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $518,400 grant to the city of Iowa Falls, Iowa, to flood-proof the public water supply and wastewater treatment facility to protect businesses from flooding. The EDA grant, to be matched with $129,600 in local investment, is expected to retain 75 jobs and generate $3 million in private investment.
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: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Darnell Curry, 27, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of assaulting, resisting, or impeding a federal officer, was sentenced to serve six months in prison by U.S. Magistrate Judge H. Kenneth Schroeder, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Michael Laury, age 41, formerly of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, was convicted following a jury trial, of methamphetamine and false statement offenses. The six-day trial was held before United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion in Scranton.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the filing of a lawsuit against property managers/owners REESE PFEIFFER, JEANNE PFEIFFER, MICHAEL FRUEN, and JEREMY MARTINEAU and business entities FRUEN & PFEIFFER, LLP (“F&P") and M. FRUEN PROPERTIES (“MFP") (collectively, “Defendants") for allegedly engaging in a pattern or practice of sexual harassment in violation of the Fair Housing Act.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE) sent a letter to U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) Comptroller Gene L. Dodaro requesting that the GAO investigate...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: Santa Fe, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management is selling fuelwood permits for personal use to the public. Fuelwood permits cost $10 - $12 per cord and are available in person at select locations or online.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams announced today that Gavaughn Gaquez Streeter-Hillerich, 22, has been charged by criminal complaint with two counts of using fire to maliciously damage and attempt to damage a building housing the Portland Police Bureau’s North Precinct and various private businesses on June 26, 2020.
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 EPA Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: House Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), House Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), House Education and Labor Chairman Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (D-VA), Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA), and Senate Finance Ranking Member...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that two defendants, SCOTT ROBINSON and SARAH IZHAKI, each pled guilty today to conspiring to unlawfully distribute adulterated and misbranded drugs for the purpose of doping racehorses in connection with...
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 US DOT Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Aviation Rick Larsen (D-WA) released the Committee’s final report on the Boeing 737 MAX. This report, prepared by Majority Staff, lays out the serious flaws...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: FORT MYERS, Fla. - A federal jury has found Edgar Vazquez (35, Fort Myers) guilty of possessing with the intent to distribute more than 500 grams of cocaine. Vazquez faces a minimum mandatory term of 5 years, and up to 40 years, in federal prison. Vazquez had been indicted on May 22, 2019. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for Dec. 14, 2020.
