News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: Former Indiana State Senator and Gaming Executive Indicted for Violations of Federal Campaign Finance Laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: New Scheme Resulted in Alleged Loss to Investors of at Least $7 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Gloucester City, New Jersey, man today admitted conspiring to distribute oxycodone pills and selling Xanax pills, making him the fifth person to plead guilty for his role in a drug trafficking ring operating in and around Gloucester City and Camden, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Chinese national was sentenced today to five years in prison and ordered to forfeit more than $4.2 million for laundering drug proceeds generated by large-scale cocaine trafficking in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - Acting United States Attorney John Childress and Assistant Attorney General Brian Rabbitt of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division announced today that a federal grand jury sitting in the Southern District of Indiana returned an indictment charging a former Indiana state senator and...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: CANTON, Ohio - U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman announced today that Ronald E. Holt, age 54, of East Sparta, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge John R. Adams to 115 months imprisonment, three years supervised release and ordered to pay $8,180 in restitution after Holt pleaded guilty to bank robbery on Sept. 1, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A man identified as a member of the Heath Street Gang was sentenced yesterday for distributing crack cocaine in a public housing development.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury today returned a superseding indictment that charges a San Gabriel Valley woman with sex trafficking five immigrant women by hiring them to work at massage parlors and forcing them to engage in commercial sex acts.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bergen County, New Jersey, was charged today for his role in a conspiracy to file phony tax returns in order to illegally obtain tax refunds, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colorado - As part of an ambitious, multi-pronged strategy to reduce overpopulation of wild horses and burros on public lands, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced today that it will award the first of seven contracts for new wild horse off-range pastures in Kansas, Nebraska...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: COOLIDGE, AZ -Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, Casa Grande Ruins National Monument is increasing access and services. The National Park Service (NPS) is working servicewide with federal, state, and local public health authorities to closely monitor the COVID-19 pandemic and using a phased approach to increase access on a park-by-park basis.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Missouri, man has been sentenced in federal court for his role in a conspiracy to distribute large amounts of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Loretta Darlene Stewart-Cabrera, also known as Loretta Dexter, 55, of Sacramento, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller to 30 months in prison for wire fraud and money laundering, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Oklahoma City attorney Keegan Kelley Harroz, 37, has pleaded guilty today in federal court to one count of being a prohibited person unlawfully in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing. Specifically, Harroz admitted that, on or about August 4, 2019, she possessed a firearm in violation of federal law because she was subject to a state-court victim protective order at the time she possessed the firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - On Friday, Christopher Daniel Jones, 26, of Camp Verde, Arizona, was sentenced by United States District Judge Michael T. Liburdi to 105 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Jones previously pleaded guilty to Carjacking on Feb. 26, 2020.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM has successfully integrated the liquid waste treatment system with the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) at the Savannah River Site (SRS) after 10 years of complex preparatory work.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA: An Appling County man with multiple prior convictions for selling narcotics has been sentenced to nearly two decades in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Michael Moon, of Toledo, Ohio, has admitted to his role in a drug conspiracy, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2 million grant to the Scotland County Economic Development Corporation, Laurinburg, North Carolina, to construct a new business incubator to provide workspace...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: Miami, Fl. - Rewards are being offered for information leading to the arrest or conviction of three former Venezuelan officials who for years have failed to personally appear in the Southern District of Florida to face publicly-filed federal drug trafficking charges.
