News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Christian Dunbar, 40, of Philadelphia, PA, the current Philadelphia City Treasurer, was arrested this morning and charged by Criminal Complaint with embezzlement by a bank employee, conspiracy to commit marriage fraud, and fraudulent procurement of citizenship. U.S. Attorney McSwain detailed the charges at a press conference this afternoon in front of the James A. Byrne U.S. Courthouse in Philadelphia.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX) released the following statement on President Donald Trump’s health care announcement.
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: Washington and Nevada Resident Sentenced in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Former financial planner James A. Young III, 50, of Milton, was sentenced today to 51 months in federal prison after having pled guilty to wire fraud and failure to file tax returns. The sentence was announced by Lawrence Keefe, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
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: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - An Akron, Ohio man has been sentenced for a gun crime, according to United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Devon Alexander, 30, was sentenced to 84 months in federal prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release. Alexander was convicted by a federal jury in December 2019 of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) wrote to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler today demanding answers for EPA’s indefinite suspension of racism sensitivity training and an environmental justice speaker series.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: St John, US Virgin Islands - Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, and in accordance with the Governor’s Executive Order lifting previous restrictions beginning Sept. 19, 2020, Virgin Islands National...
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 DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - First Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams and Acting Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Bossert Clark announced that Linde GmbH and its U.S. subsidiary Linde Engineering North America LLC (LENA) (together, “Linde") have agreed to pay the United States more than...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Christian Michael Stutes, 24, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to receipt and distribution of child pornography. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 20 years, and a $250,000 fine.
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 DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: A man who urged investors to “profit off" the COVID-19 pandemic has been charged with commodities fraud, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: CAÑON CITY, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management Royal Gorge Field Office is considering a proposal to reroute a severely damaged section of the single-track, motorized use Rainbow Trail near Coaldale, from the adjacent San Isabel National Forest to BLM-managed land. The trail was damaged in flooding that occurred after the 2016 Hayden Pass fire.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: Filed Dozens of Fraudulent Tax Returns Seeking Over $160,000 in Refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: An illegal alien was sentenced yesterday to 18 months’ in federal prison for assaulting a federal officer, announced United States Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON -- U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Representative Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Chairwoman, House Committee on Oversight and Reform, introduced legislation that will build climate change preparedness, mitigation, and resilience into all aspects of federal government operations. Senator Tina...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior United States District Judge John Antoon II today sentenced Jonathan Cruz Carino (28, Ocala) to two and a half years in federal prison for possession of a firearm affecting commerce by a convicted felon. Carino had pleaded guilty on June 22, 2020.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: MARINA, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Central Coast Field Office has released its Cotoni-Coast Dairies proposed Resource Management Plan Amendment and Environmental Assessment for the California Coastal National Monument that will provide management direction for Cotoni-Coast Dairies public lands in Santa Cruz County. Today’s announcement begins a 30-day protest period and 60-day Governor’s consistency review.
