News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: MARSHALL, Texas - A 53-year-old Hallsville, Texas, man has pleaded guilty to a federal drug trafficking violation in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox today.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: Dennis Williams, the former President of the international United Auto Workers union, pleaded guilty today to conspiring with other UAW officials to embezzle UAW funds announced U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA -United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Steven Mack, 31, of Philadelphia, PA was convicted today at trial of possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon, arising from an incident during which state parole agents caught Mack with the firearm and ammunition shortly after he was released from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: Birmingham, Ala. - A federal today yesterday sentenced a former Vestavia Hills doctor to 30 years in prison for producing and possessing child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: Knoxville, Tenn. - Gregory Lynn McKnight, Jr., 28, of Clintwood, Virginia, was sentenced on Sept. 29, 2020, by the Honorable R. Leon Jordan, Senior U.S. District Judge, to serve 180 months in federal prison for attempting to coerce a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian C. Rabbitt of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Assistant Director Calvin Shivers of the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division, Deputy Inspector General Gary Cantrell of the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General...

By Homeland Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) are releasing a joint Ransomware Guide meant to be a one-stop resource for stakeholders on how to be proactive and prevent these attacks from happening and also a...

By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: * The parkwide wildland fire danger for Yellowstone has been reduced to HIGH.

By US DOT Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: Opening remarks, as prepared, of Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) and Subcommittee on Aviation Ranking Member Garret Graves (R-LA) from today’s legislative markup, including consideration of the Aircraft Certification Reform and Accountability Act (H.R. 8408):

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Michigan man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Springfield to firearm charges.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: A Waterloo man who unlawfully possessed a firearm and possessed methamphetamine with the intent to distribute was sentenced on Sept. 28, 2020, to almost four years in federal prison.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: EUGENE, Ore.-U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams announced today that a Eugene Springfield Fire Department paramedic has been charged with illegally obtaining controlled substances from a local pharmacy and using them to drug and rape multiple female victims.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Michigan man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Springfield to firearm charges.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, Susan A. Gibson, and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Craig Carpenito, announced a Newark man was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute heroin and crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A Richmond Hill man has admitted that he created fake email addresses and concocted other information to falsely accuse a former acquaintance of committing violations of patient privacy.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: Tried to flee from police. GREENSBORO, N.C. - A Winston-Salem man was sentenced on Sept. 29, 2020, by United States District Court Judge Catherine C. Eagles to 92 months in prison and three years of supervised release for a firearm offense, announced United States Attorney Matthew G.T. Martin of...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS, MO -Lynese Cargill (also known as Lynese Hoffman), 51, formerly of St. Louis County, Missouri, pled guilty to three counts of wire fraud related to her former position as vice president and chief financial officer of Common Ground Public Relations, Inc. Cargill appeared today before U.S. District Judge Audrey Fleissig who accepted her pleas and set sentencing for January 6, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty plea of SHELBY GENE BOSWELL, 28, to illegally possessing and discharging a firearm in a school zone. BOSWELL, who was initially charged on November 6, 2019, entered his guilty plea today before Chief Judge John R. Tunheim in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Box Elder man who admitted having sex with a minor girl and to recording the activity on his cell phone was sentenced today to 10 years in prison and five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: Chief Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl sentenced CHARLES PATRICK JEFFERY, JR. to 360 months imprisonment followed by a lifetime of supervised release. Jeffery entered his plea of guilty to one count of aggravated sexual abuse of a child on July 1, 2020. Jeffery has been and will continue...