News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Barry Thomas Goldsborough, age 52, of Laurel, Maryland, with receipt, transportation, distribution, and possession of child pornography. The indictment was returned on Sept. 21, 2020, and unsealed yesterday at Goldsborough’s initial appearance in the U.S. District Court in Greenbelt. At that hearing, U.S. Magistrate Judge Charles B. Day ordered that Goldsborough be detained pending trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss - Melvin “Dogman" Fairman, 36, of Prentiss, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett to 121 months in prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Brad Byerley with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Judge Starrett also ordered Fairman to pay a $9,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: 31% decrease in opioid overdose deaths in Lorain County from 2017 to 2019.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Today, House Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ) requested more information on the Trump Administration’s decision to block the United States Postal Service (USPS) from sending reusable face masks to every American.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, Belleville, New Jersey, was arrested today for allegedly possessing images of child sexual abuse and distributing them on the internet, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - Leonidas N. Mavrogenis, Jr., 62, of Salem, Massachusetts, was sentenced to five years in prison for distribution of child pornography, it was announced by Michael Shea, acting special agent in charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Boston and Scott W. Murray U.S. attorney for New Hampshire in a New Hampshire federal court Sept. 22.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Louisiana man today admitted that he illegally accessed a healthcare company’s online portal and downloaded more than 60,000 laboratory reports belonging to more than 30,000 patients, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - David Clay Fowlkes, First Assistant United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Michelle Friedman, age 38, was sentenced yesterday to 168 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release for Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine. The Honorable Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: Today, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Republican Leader of the Committee on Education and Labor, issued the following statement in response to President Trump’s Executive Order to combat the harmful practice of surprise medical billing...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON- House Agriculture Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry Chair Abigail Spanberger of Virginia delivered the following statement on today's hearing on 2020 wildfires, response and recovery.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A Mongolian woman residing in western Pennsylvania has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal immigration laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, joined Fox News’ Sean Hannity Wednesday to discuss his committee’s newly released report that revealed millions of dollars in questionable financial transactions between Hunter Biden and his associates and foreign individuals.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Marie Antoinette Alcanter, 48, of Sacramento, was sentenced today to four and a half years in prison for access device fraud and aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - A federal grand jury returned indictments yesterday charging two former United States Postal Service employees, Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today released new data from the second phase of the experimental Small Business Pulse Survey. Data collection began Aug. 9, 2020. Results will be released weekly starting Aug. 20 through Oct. 15, 2020. The second phase includes questions on the core concepts from the first phase...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Harley Rouda, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Environment, released a new report entitled, “The Urgent Need for Climate Action: Health Benefits for the State of California if the United States Meets the Goals of the Paris Agreement." The report, released in conjunction...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Lowell man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to fentanyl conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for fentanyl distribution.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - First Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Chip Hackley, 49, of Hermosa Beach, CA, and George Matin, 51, of Los Angeles, CA, were each sentenced to 15 months in prison, to be followed by two years of supervised release, by United States District Court...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2020
News Release: Miami, Fl. - U.S. District Judge Raag Singhal has sentenced 61-year-old Michael Jerome Atkins, a former Florida resident, to five years in federal prison for defrauding a now 68-year-old former schoolteacher out of $425,447.14 -- all of her retirement money. The judge also ordered Atkins to pay that amount back to his victim, as restitution.
