News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: SAN JOSE- Marc Marier was sentenced to 29 months in prison and ordered to pay over $1.49 million in restitution for wire fraud and money laundering, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and FBI Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Lucy Koh, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Charles B. King, 36, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa to being a felon in possession of ammunition. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Michael Caraballo, age 37, formerly of Vermont, pleaded guilty on September 4, 2020, before U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani, to assault with a dangerous weapon and possession of contraband in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Attorney General William P. Barr and Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Administrator Timothy J. Shea announced the results of Operation Crystal Shield, 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: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Brian Arnold, 49, of Pine City, NY, who was convicted of embezzlement of union funds, was sentenced, by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr., to serve two years’ probation, to include six months home confinement. The defendant was also ordered to pay $33,224.15 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: A federal grand jury recently returned a fourteen-count indictment charging Elliott Sterling, age 32, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with wire fraud, financial aid fraud, and engaging in monetary transactions involving property derived from specified unlawful activity. Sterling appeared for his arraignment yesterday and pled not guilty to the pending charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS - United States District Judge Audrey G. Fleissig sentenced Charles T. McRoberts to 120 months in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Aleksandar Kavaja, 27, of the Balkan country Montenegro, pleaded guilty before United States District Court Judge Harvey Bartle III to charges of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine on a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Errol Harmon, 47, of Memphis, Tennessee, has been charged in a federal indictment with conspiracy, bribery, and interstate transportation in aid of bribery, announced United States Attorney Mike Hurst, Michelle A. Sutphin, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi, Special Agent in Charge Neil Sanchez with the U.S. Department of Education, Office of the Inspector General, and Mississippi State Auditor Shad White.
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: Los Angeles - Today, Attorney General William P. Barr and Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Administrator Timothy J. Shea announced the results of Operation Crystal Shield, 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: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Salvadoran national pleaded guilty today to failing to update his registration as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - United States Attorney J. Douglas Overbey of the Eastern District of Tennessee announced today, the City of Knoxville, Bradley County School District, and Monroe County Schools received $1,391,296 from the Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Matthew Kummer, 49, Minocqua, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty and was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 10 years in federal prison for possessing child pornography. This term of imprisonment will be followed by 15 years of supervised release.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) announced today that the Communications and Technology Subcommittee will hold a fully remote hearing on oversight of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) with all five commissioners on Thursday, Sept. 17, at 10 a.m. (EDT). The hearing is entitled, “Trump FCC: Four Years of Lost Opportunities."
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: Lexington Man Convicted of Multiple Counts of Sex and Drug Trafficking and Related Offenses, Including Witness Tampering.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: Seven Charged in Connection with a $2.1 Million Money Laundering Scheme that Involved Money from the Paycheck Protection Program.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: 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 with strong ties...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) announced today that the Communications and Technology Subcommittee will hold a fully remote hearing on oversight of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) with all five commissioners on Thursday, Sept. 17, at 10 a.m. (EDT). The hearing is entitled, “Trump FCC: Four Years of Lost Opportunities."
