News from September 2020
By DOT News Wire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao announced today that the Trump Administration will award $335 million in airport safety and infrastructure grants through the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to 80 airports in 25 states.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - United States Attorney J. Douglas Overbey of the Eastern District of Tennessee announced today that $150,000 was awarded in Department of Justice grant to address reducing injury and death of missing individuals with dementia and developmental disabilities in the County of Franklin, Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that RUVIM KRUPKIN, a New York state-licensed doctor, pled guilty today to conspiring to illegally distribute large quantities of oxycodone from a medical office in Brooklyn, New York. As part of his guilty...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Vernon Schermerhorn III, 51, of Coeymans Hollow, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with attempted enticement of a minor. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in prison, and a maximum of 30 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - First Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Jason Muzzicato, 43, of Bangor, PA, was sentenced to five years in prison and three years of supervised release by United States District Court Judge Joseph F. Leeson, Jr., for unlawfully possessing firearms...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Xzavier Earl Damon Wilson, 24, of Gulfport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr., 188 months in prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Kurt Theilhorn, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Wilson was also ordered to pay a $5,000 fine and forfeit two firearms.
By State Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today delivered the following opening remarks at a full committee hearing conducting oversight of the United States Agency for Global Media and U.S. international broadcasting efforts...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - Carlos Jones, 21, has pled guilty to armed carjacking and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the guilty plea today.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: “I want to thank Dr. Brad Wenstrup for yielding time to me, and I want to congratulate him and Ms. Sewell for their strong, bipartisan leadership on this important bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - Power Solutions International Inc., a suburban Chicago manufacturing company, has agreed to pay a $1.7 million civil penalty to the Securities and Exchange Commission and continue to cooperate with the government in a criminal prosecution of its former employees as part of a resolution of a fraud investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: Copper Center, AK - Austin Pfeiffer, 22, of Ohio was killed by a grizzly bear in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve late Sunday, Sept. 20 during a moose hunting trip. This is the first recorded fatal bear attack in the park since it was established in 1980. The park and preserve is over 13 million acres in size and the incident occurred in a remote area approximately 50 air-miles from the nearest community of Northway, Alaska and 130 miles from park headquarters.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to time served in prison, five years supervised release, and 180 days of home detention with electronic monitoring on his conviction of armed bank robbery, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: CONCORD, NH - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today that Miguel Vasquez, 26, of Roxbury, Massachusetts, was sentenced to 97 months in federal prison for participating in a drug trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - James Windham, 24, of Petal, pled guilty today before Senior U.S. District Court Judge Keith Starrett to aiding and abetting the carrying and use of a firearm during a drug trafficking crime, resulting in the firearm being discharged, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Brad Byerley with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
By USDA Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on four produce businesses for failing to meet contractual obligations to the sellers of produce they purchased and failing to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA). These sanctions...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued a statement after the president signed a series of executive orders marketed as steps to protect people with pre-existing conditions. In fact, these measures will leave the health care system with massive loopholes for insurance companies to deny people health care, falling well short of the ironclad protections in the Affordable Care Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to time served in prison, five years supervised release, and 180 days of home detention with electronic monitoring on his conviction of armed bank robbery, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - Alexander Knight, 32, of Seminary, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Keith Starrett to 16 months in prison, a $3000 fine, and three years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Michelle A. Sutphin with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Nicholas Adam Owens, of Elkins, West Virginia, has admitted to a drug charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake today sentenced Shannon Stafford, age 50, of Crofton, Maryland, to a year and a day in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally accessing and damaging the computer network of his former employer. Judge Blake also entered an order requiring Stafford to pay restitution in the amount of $193,258.10 to his former employer.
