News from September 2020
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement regarding President Trump’s pre-election gimmick to provide a one-time $200 drug discount card to Medicare beneficiaries...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A man who pointed a laser pointer at a Louisville Metro Police Department helicopter blinding the pilots has been charged by federal criminal complaint, announced United States Attorney Russell Coleman. Following the temporary blindness from the beam of the laser pointer, the two officers immediately encountered headaches that impaired their ability to safely pilot the helicopter.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew today sentenced Richard Franklin Jensen, III (34, Atlanta), a licensed attorney in Georgia, to 12 years and 7 months in federal prison for attempting to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity, and attempting to transfer obscene material to a minor. The court also ordered Jensen to forfeit the electronic devices he had used in the commission of the offenses.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: Omaha, Neb. - National Park Service (NPS) Regional Director Herbert C. Frost announced the selection of Leigh Welling as the new superintendent of Wind Cave National Park located in Hot Springs, South Dakota. Welling will begin serving in the position November 8, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: A Milan, Michigan resident was sentenced to 72 months in federal prison after having pleaded guilty to charges of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in a scheme to defraud Amtrak and others, along with firearms offenses, announced United States Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - The former city clerk in Everton, Missouri, has been sentenced in federal court for her role in a money-laundering conspiracy related to methamphetamine trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On Sept. 17, 2020, United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger sentenced Michael James Hidlebaugh, age 38, of Perry, to 97 months in prison for Receipt of Child Pornography, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Hidlebaugh was ordered to serve five years of supervised release to follow his prison term, pay $21,000 in restitution, and comply with sex offender registry requirements upon release.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - The former owner of a child placement agency in Houston has been ordered to prison following her convictions on multiple counts in an adoption fraud scheme, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick along with Special Agent in Charge Perrye K. Turner of the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: Following Conviction for Racketeering Conspiracy. HAMMOND- Angelina Vilella, 21, of Chicago, Illinois, was sentenced to 60 months of imprisonment following her guilty plea to conspiracy to participate in racketeering activity as an associate of the Latin Dragons Nation street gang, announced U.S. Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - Matthew David Lambert, 26, of Renick, was sentenced to 100 months in federal prison for attempted receipt of child pornography. Upon release from prison, Lambert will serve a 25 year term of supervised release and be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: Tried to Ditch the Sawed-Off from the Passenger Side of a Car While.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: Anthony Hopper Sentenced for RICO Conviction that Included Murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams announced today that two men have been charged with Fraud crimes against the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, Oregon.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - In September 2020, the Department of Energy’s Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) announced cooperative agreements totaling $12 million over a three-year period to develop and deploy cyber and cyber-physical solutions for distribution and municipal...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Daniel M. Passero, Jr., age 35, formerly of Herkimer County, New York, was sentenced today in federal court in Binghamton to serve 20 years in prison for receiving and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis today sentenced James Aaron Anderson, Jr. (37, Jacksonville) to 15 years in federal prison for possessing ammunition as a convicted felon. Anderson had pleaded guilty on July 2, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: (BUTTE, Mont.) - The Bureau of Land Management’s Butte Field Office has rescinded an Emergency Closure Order issued earlier this month temporarily restricting camping, day use, road access and hunting in the Little Whitetail and Hay Canyon areas in Jefferson County due to the State Creek Fire.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - An former attorney was sentenced today in federal court in Springfield in connection with attempting to defraud and defrauding clients, investment firms and commercial lenders.
By State Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, recently welcomed five new committee interns for the fall term.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Raymond P. Donovan, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA"), Peter C. Fitzhugh, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Office of Homeland Security Investigations...
