News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: Received Over 1,000 Images and Videos of Child Pornography, Some Containing Depictions of Prepubescent Girls Involved in Sex Acts with Adults and Animals.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that FRED ELM, a/k/a “Frederic Elmaleh," the founder and manager of Elm Tree Investment Advisors LLC (“ETIA"), was sentenced today to 85 months in prison for participating in a scheme to defraud investors...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams announced today that a White River Junction, Vermont man has been charged with repeatedly charging at police officers while holding a shield as officers were engaged in lawful crowd dispersal during a civil disorder event.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) released the following statement today in response to Senate passage of H.R. 4779, a bill to extend the U.S. SAFE WEB Act...
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: 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: 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: Jackson, TN- Following a week-long trial with proper COVID-19 health and safety protocols, a federal jury has convicted Charles Ray Smith, 71, of Crump, Tenn., of defrauding three banks in Tennessee and Alabama. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the guilty verdict today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - On Sept. 24, 2020, United States District Court Senior Judge James E. Gritzner sentenced Kenneth Jay Still, age 71, of Council Bluffs, to 10 years in prison, the statutory maximum, for felon and domestic abuser in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Marc...
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 EPA Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) released the following statement today in response to Senate passage of H.R. 4779, a bill to extend the U.S. SAFE WEB Act...
By Commerce 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...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that on Sept. 15, 2020, a federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment against Casey Welk (age: 23) of Appleton, Wisconsin.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn announced that two individuals, including a Chinese national, were sentenced for wire fraud in a scheme to falsify education credentials to obtain massage therapy licenses. The Denver Division of the FBI joined in this announcement.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) released the following statement today in response to Senate passage of H.R. 4779, a bill to extend the U.S. SAFE WEB Act...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 25, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 88 at-large aliens from Aug. 24 to Sept. 19 as part of an immigration enforcement action focused on public safety threats in the Chicago metro-area. Targeted individuals were arrested for immigration violations and have a variety of pending...
By EPA 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 USDA Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
Release: The U. S. Department of Agriculture’s National Rabies Management Program (NRMP) has released a video in support of World Rabies Day, Sept. 28, a global day of action and awareness for rabies prevention. A unit in the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), the rabies program works to stop the spread of rabies in land-dwelling wildlife and eventually to eliminate rabies in wildlife populations.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Ismael Huazo-Jardinez, 34, a Mexican citizen previously residing in Yuba City, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. to 15 months in prison for possessing a firearm while being an alien unlawfully in the United States, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
