News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced today that Michael M. Karmo (40) and Cody E. Smith (33) of Missouri have been charged by criminal complaint with illegal possession of firearms after being arrested on Sept. 1, 2020, at a hotel in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: Justice Department Reaches Settlement With City of San Antonio for Illegally Auctioning Servicemembers' Vehicles.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Pennsylvania medical assistant today admitted participating in a conspiracy to receive bribes and kickbacks in exchange for ordering genetic tests, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON-The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) wants to reassure passengers that it has taken aggressive steps to ensure aviation security while protecting them from COVID-19 in anticipation of Labor Day air travel. TSA’s ongoing “Stay Healthy. Stay Secure." campaign is designed to help...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman, Youngstown Mayor Jamael Tito Brown and Police Chief Robin Lees announced today the launch of Operation Red-Zone in the city of Youngstown over the Labor Day holiday weekend. Joining the U.S. Attorney, Youngstown Mayor and Police Chief today were representatives from the ATF, DEA, FBI, U.S. Marshals, Mahoning County Prosecutor, Mahoning County Sherriff and the Ohio State Highway Patrol.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: DETROIT - On July 8, 2020, Attorney General William P. Barr announced the launch of Operation Legend, a sustained, systematic and coordinated law enforcement initiative in which federal law enforcement agencies work in conjunction with state and local law enforcement officials to fight violent crime. The initiative is named in honor of four-year-old LeGend Taliferro, who was shot and killed while he slept early in the morning of June 29 in Kansas City.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LEON CLINEDINST, 37, formerly of Ocala, Florida, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to one count of burglary of a U.S. Post Office, and one count of interstate transportation of a stolen vehicle.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Chasib Hafedh Saadoon Al Fawadi, age 35, of Syracuse, was charged yesterday by indictment with making false statements in connection with his application to obtain a green card.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Massachusetts man who failed to appear in federal court in Rhode Island and who allegedly faked his own death after being charged and arraigned on fraud and conspiracy charges for his alleged participation in a conspiracy to file bank loan applications fraudulently seeking more than a...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza today sentenced Edgar Johan Diaz-Colon (34, Zephyrhills) to 150 years in federal prison for sexually exploiting children. Diaz-Colon had pleaded guilty on April 22, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Sept. 1, 2020, Earnest Lee Pittman, Jr., age 45, of Cresco, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury on online child enticement charges.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated five Virginia counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Caroline, Essex, Hanover, King and Queen and King William counties who suffered losses caused by freeze that occurred from March 1 through May 11, 2020, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: Tucson, Ariz. - In a new letter to Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior Casey Hammond, Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) thoroughly rebuts the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) arguments for giving away more than $177 million to soda ash producers, a recently announced decision with no...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Melissa Madera, 27, of Reading, PA pleaded guilty before United States District Court Judge Joseph F. Leeson, Jr. to multiple child exploitation and pornography offenses.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement in response to the Department of Education’s recent announcement that states will have to carry out assessments this school year, as required by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - Daniel Moore, 33, has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for being a convicted felon in possession of ammunition. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the sentence today.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: DALLAS - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Dallas, Texas, recovered a 19th century painting Wednesday that was stolen from the Abbey of Santa Maria in Sylvis in Sesto al Reghena, Italy, in May 2002. The painting called “the Assumption of the Virgin Mary" was created by Italian artist Giuseppe Pappini in August 1851.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Massachusetts man who failed to appear in federal court in Rhode Island and who allegedly faked his own death after being charged and arraigned on fraud and conspiracy charges for his alleged participation in a conspiracy to file bank loan applications fraudulently seeking more than a...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Middlesex County, New Jersey, man and two Brooklyn, New York, men were charged today with bank fraud and identity theft, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Two Santa Clarity Valley residents were arrested today on a federal indictment accusing them of scheming to defraud a company out of more than $1.7 million earmarked for diversity recruitment by using two fake businesses that billed for services that were never performed.
