News from September 2020
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: Chair Raul M. Grijalva released the following statement on the federal ruling that William Perry Pendley was illegally running the Bureau of Land Management: “The lesson of this ruling is that Gov. Bullock was right to bring this case and Mr. Pendley’s apologists were wrong to support him. His decisions...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Edgar Leonel Soto-Leon, 32, an illegal alien from Mexico, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate to serve 195 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute 2.6 pounds of methamphetamine and 2.1 pounds of heroin, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Brad L. Byerley, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior United States District Judge John Antoon II today sentenced Duvale Lamar Van Dyke (31, Ocala) to 37 months in federal prison for possession of a firearm and ammunition affecting commerce by a convicted felon. Van Dyke entered a guilty plea to the offense on June 17, 2020.
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: 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...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: CODY, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) proposes a conveyance of 228 acres of public land to Park County for the expansion of the Cody Shooting Complex. Working with local communities to enhance access to public lands for recreation and other multiple uses is a BLM priority.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - First Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Michael Salerno, 51, of Mount Laurel, NJ, was arrested and charged by Indictment with twenty-three counts of wire fraud and six counts of mail fraud in connection with multiple, elaborate fraud schemes.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Brittany Nicole Adams, 29, of Landover, MD, and Anthony Benson, Jr., 30, of Washington, D.C., have been indicted and arrested for conspiracy to distribute explosive devices and three counts of distribution of explosive devices. The charges were filed in an indictment unsealed in the U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: Departamento de Justicia. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of California. PARA DIVULGACION INMEDIATA. Viernes, 25 de septiembre de 2020. RESUMEN DEL COMUNICADO DE PRENSA -24 de septiembre de 2020. SAN DIEGO - Melissa Álvarez Torres y José Luis Olmos Hernández, una pareja de Chula Vista que operaba...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: Knoxville, Tenn. - On Sept. 24, 2020, the United States Attorney’s Office filed a federal complaint charging two individuals, Michael Allen Hill, 45, and Heavyn Breanne Thomas, 23, both from Knoxville, TN, with conspiracy to distribute 400 grams or more of a mixture and substance containing a detectable...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A former employee of the Houston Independent School District pleaded guilty today in connection with her involvement in a scheme to use bribery and fraud to facilitate cheating on the ACT and SAT exams.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that VALERIE YOREL MANSON (“MANSON"), age 51, of New Orleans, Louisiana, was charged on Sept. 22, 2020 by a Bill of Information for Theft of Government Funds, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 641.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: Arizona - From August 10 thru Sept. 17, 2020, the United States Marshals Service Arizona WANTED Violent Offender Task Force partnered with Phoenix Police Department and several other agencies to lead Operation Snake Eyes. This operation was presented to Phoenix PD, and the task force partners, as...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A criminal indictment in U.S. District Court charges Eric M. Hill, 44, of Charlotte, with insider trading, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. The indictment was returned by a grand jury last week and was unsealed this morning, following Hill’s initial court appearance.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty plea of MATTHEW SCOTT WHITE, 32, to one count of arson. WHITE, who was arrested and charged on June, 29, 2020, entered his guilty plea today before Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued the following statement after a federal court ruling extended the 2020 Census enumeration to October 31...
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 DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Anthony Hopper, age 33, of Syracuse, was sentenced today to serve 385 months (32 years and one month) in federal prison for violating the Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), announced Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon, Thomas F. Relford, Special...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty plea of MATTHEW SCOTT WHITE, 32, to one count of arson. WHITE, who was arrested and charged on June, 29, 2020, entered his guilty plea today before Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reached a consent decision against James Steven Kemp (Kemp) of Pleasant Shade, Tenn., on Aug. 21, 2020, for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
