News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: Russian National Indicted for Conspiracy to Introduce Malware into a Computer Network.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: The FBI is Seeking Information in the Shooting Death of Cleveland Police Detective James Skernivitz.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: Also Ordered to Pay $312,014.18 in Restitution to Victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: At approximately 7:30 p.m. PST on Sept. 3, members of the U.S. Marshals Service Pacific Northwest Violent Offender Task Force were involved in a line-of-duty shooting in Olympia, Washington. The task force was attempting to arrest Michael Forest Reinoehl, wanted by Multnomah County Circuit Court (Oregon) on a charge of murder.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Daniel Lipinski (D-IL) announced the Subcommittee will hold a hearing titled, “Amtrak’s Response to COVID-19."
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: House Ways and Means Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee Chairman Mike Thompson announced today that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing on “Consequences of Inaction on COVID Tax Legislation" on Friday, Sept. 11, 2020 at 12 P.M.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert for the District of the Virgin Islands announced that a complaint has been unsealed which charges Romeo Walter with Felon in Possession of a Firearm; Possession of a Firearm with an Obliterated Serial Number; Possession of a Firearm within...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: Three additional men pleaded guilty this week for their roles in a heroin trafficking operation with ties to Mexico’s New Generation Cartel, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Aaron Robert Schupp, age 36, of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma was sentenced to 3 years of probation for Making Counterfeit Obligation, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 471. The charges arose from an investigation by the Broken Arrow Police Department and the United States Secret Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: Distributed more than 10 pounds of methamphetamine within 1000 feet of Cook Park in Sioux City.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Chief U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday today sentenced Samuel Friedman (45, Land O’ Lakes) to four years in federal prison for health care fraud. The court also ordered Friedman to forfeit his interests in real property as well as a bank account containing nearly $475,000, which were traceable to proceeds of the offense. Restitution was ordered in the amount of $3.42 million.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: How It Works: President Trump’s Payroll Tax Deferral Executive Order.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: A Texas National Guardsman was sentenced to two years in federal prison and order to repay a $75,000 fine for theft of government money, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Paul Patrick Piper, 58, of Ludington, Michigan, was sentenced to 63 months’ imprisonment today on charges of bank fraud and filing a false federal income tax return. The sentencing hearing took place in the United States District Court in Grand Rapids, Michigan, before Chief...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - Clinton Towles, 39, has been sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the sentence today.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) released a request for information on handheld, portable, and desktop explosives trace detectors (ETDs) that can analyze wipe samples collected from surfaces of packages, baggage, automobiles, or other...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: Bilked Gibson County Coal and Bridgestone Firestone out of over $244,683.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Specialty Disposal Services, Inc., a controlled substance disposal company with its principal place of business in New Jersey, will pay $137,500 and enter into an administrative memorandum of agreement with the Drug Enforcement Administration to resolve allegations that the company negligently failed to complete required records regarding the disposal of certain controlled substances.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, and Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, Committee Member, sent a letter to Acting Secretary Chad Wolf, Department of Homeland Security, and Director James Murray, U.S. Secret Service, regarding the concerning detention of India Johnson and Yasmeen Winston on the National Mall.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA - Burgess Green, 41, of Ocala, Florida, was sentenced on Sept. 1, 2020, to a total of 9 years in federal prison after pleading guilty on Sept. 19, 2019, to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute more than 50 grams methamphetamine and possessing a firearm...
