News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Palm Desert man was named today in a federal criminal complaint that charges him with attempted arson in the May 31 firebombing of the East Valley Republican Women Federated (EVRWF) office in La Quinta.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - United States Attorney Russell Coleman is pleased to announce that the first-ever recipient of the U.S. Attorney’s Law Enforcement Award is the Paducah Police Department Drug Unit.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On September 9, 2020, Samuel Weaver, 62, of Chattanooga, was sentenced by the Honorable Curtis Collier, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - The Department of Justice Criminal Division announced today that it has charged more than 50 people who allegedly committed fraud to obtain funds from the Paycheck Protection Plan (PPP).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Dvonte Amir King, 23, of Vicksburg, pleaded guilty today before Senior U.S. District Court Judge Tom S. Lee to making a false statement to a licensed firearms dealer and putting false information on an official form while attempting to purchase a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Kirk Thielhorn, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in New Orleans.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS - Attorney General William P. Barr and Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Administrator Timothy J. Shea announced the results of Operation Crystal Shield today, DEA’s six-month-long effort targeting the command and control elements of Mexican cartels that operate major methamphetamine “transportation hubs" in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: Jared Daily, age 34, of Belle Plaine, Iowa, has been charged with distribution, receipt, and accessing of child pornography. The charges are contained in an Indictment unsealed on Sept. 3, 2020, in United States District Court in Cedar Rapids.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $22.8 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to capitalize and administer Revolving Loan Funds (RLFs) that will provide critical gap financing to small businesses and entrepreneurs adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic across Eastern New York.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: Two new Physical Oceanographic Real-Time Systems, also known as PORTSⓇ, are improving maritime safety near Kings Bay, Georgia, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire, near two U.S. Navy installations. NOAA and the U.S. Navy partnered to install the first new PORTS in two years, the 34th and 35th in the nationwide network.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - U.S. Attorney Bill Powell of the Northern District of West Virginia announced that several law enforcement agencies and school districts received more than $824,000 from the Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) School Violence...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: Defendant used physical violence and crack cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine to compel multiple victims into prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Victoria Transcultural Clinical Center, VTCC, LLC (“VTCC"), located in Fairfax, has agreed to pay $263,280 to settle a federal False Claims Act (“FCA") case pending in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. VTCC provides mental health services and behavioral therapy to children and adolescents in northern Virginia who are Medicaid recipients.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: Ocala, FL - U.S. Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the arrest of Jose Merced Sanchez De La Torre (age 43) on a federal criminal complaint alleging illegal re-entry into the United States by an alien with a prior aggravated felony conviction. If convicted of the offense, Sanchez De La Torre faces up to 20 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - U.S. Attorney Brian J. Kuester of the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Tahlequah Public Schools received $481,097 from the Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) School Violence Prevention Program (SVPP). Nationally, the COPS...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Guillermo Medel, 38, of Albuquerque made an appearance in federal court today on charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition and assaulting and resisting a federal officer. Medel will remain in custody pending trial.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - After a 17-month investigation, House and Senate Committee leaders today released a staff report detailing extensive abuse of nearly $6 million in taxpayer funds by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma, who retained private communications consultants...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 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 his role in a May 28, 2019 incident in New Bedford, where a rival gang member was shot at.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr. announced today that Alagi Samba, 50, of Bronx, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud affecting a financial institution, was sentenced to time served by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. The defendant was also ordered to pay restitution totaling $790,350.40 to M&T Bank and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments yesterday. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: Defendants Alleged to Have Rigged Police Chief Exam, Misappropriated City’s Confidential Information.
