News from September 2020
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: Daniel M. Passero Was on Parole for a Prior Child Sex Offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in Boston in connection with drug trafficking activities involving fentanyl and cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment late yesterday charging two men with the armed robbery of multiple convenience stores in the Hampton Roads region.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: BOISE - Jason Harvey, 45, of Parma, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 200 months in federal prison for distribution of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today. U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also sentenced Harvey to a lifetime of supervised release following his prison sentence. Harvey pleaded guilty to the charge on June 24, 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: MINNEAPOLIS, MN-The Minneapolis Division of the FBI conducted a court-authorized law enforcement activity this afternoon/evening of Sept. 25, 2020, at a home located at 635 Asbury Street in St. Paul in support of an ongoing investigation by the Roseville, Minnesota Police Department.
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 Homeland Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, appeared on Fox News’ Bill Hemmer Reports Friday to discuss the revelation that the sub-source for the Steele dossier was believed to have been in contact with Russian intelligence officers and his committee’s recently released interim report on their Biden-Ukraine conflicts-of-interest investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: Spokane - William D. Hyslop, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Misael Reyes-Tajimaroa, age 36, of Michoacan, Mexico, was sentenced after having pleaded guilty to one count of healthcare fraud conspiracy, one count of mail and wire fraud conspiracy, eight counts...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - An Ohio man was sentenced for his participation in an extensive drug trafficking organization (DTO) operating between California, Ohio, Michigan, and the Southern District of West Virginia, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Jason Johnson, 31, of Columbus, was sentenced to...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-A Dallas-area doctor pled guilty this afternoon to obstructing a federal health care investigation. Cody Hiland, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, Michael C. Mentavlos, Special Agent in Charge of the Defense Criminal Investigative Service Southwest Field Office...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 100,000 metric tons of soybean meal for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2020/2021 marketing year.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: Thank you, Mike, for hosting this important hearing. I wanted to take part today because restaurants are hurting. They are hurting throughout my district in central and Western Massachusetts and all over the country-in urban and rural communities. My heart goes out to restaurant owners and their employees and the communities they serve and sustain.
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 Interior Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: FORT LARNED - Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, Fort Larned National Historic Site is offering a scaled down Candlelight Tour this year. 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 25, 2020
News Release: Justice Department Calls on San Francisco Mayor to End “One Congregant" Rule for Places of Worship to Comply with the Constitution.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $10.3 million EDA CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the West Virginia Economic Development Authority, Charleston, West Virginia, to capitalize and administer...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: SENTENCING - DOMINGO SANTIAGO CEDANO-MARTINEZ. On Sept. 18, Domingo Santiago Cedano-Martinez, 24, was sentenced to 8 years in federal prison for possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute. On August 8, 2019, Cedano-Martinez met with a co-conspirator at Town East Mall in Mesquite...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement regarding President Trump’s pre-election gimmick to provide a one-time $200 drug discount card to Medicare beneficiaries...
