News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Morgantown man pled guilty today to federal gun crimes, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Robert William Moats, 34, pled guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession of a firearm with a removed serial number.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - A Cary man was sentenced today in federal court in Greensboro for distributing heroin to a Durham resident who later died of an overdose, announced United States Attorney Matthew G.T. Martin of the Middle District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The former co-owner of a New Jersey marketing company today admitted her role in a scheme to defraud public and private health benefits programs of at least $8.8 million for the billing of medically unnecessary compounded prescriptions, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Ron Wyden (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Finance Committee, released their response to Senate Republicans’ failed effort to manufacture dirt on Vice President Joe Biden...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: Michigan Man Pleads Guilty to Using Threats to Obstruct Free Exercise of Religious Beliefs.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: EL PASO, TX-The Federal Bureau of Investigation El Paso Division wants to warn the public about “virtual kidnapping" extortion calls in West Texas communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that BARBARA MEYZEN, a/k/a "Bobbie Meyzen," the former owner and operator of La Cremaillere Restaurant in Banksville, New York, was sentenced in White Plains federal court to two years in prison for fraud...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Passaic County, New Jersey, man today admitted conspiring to distribute heroin and to distributing a quantity of fentanyl, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A San Gabriel Valley man who allegedly drove his truck into a crowd of peaceful demonstrators on May 31 in Pasadena was arrested today on a federal criminal complaint charging him with conspiring to violate firearms laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: PLATTSBURGH, NEW YORK - Bradley W. Price, age 44, of Ausable, New York, Leah M. Cross, age 30, of Ausable Forks, New York, Carl J. Estes, age 35, of Keeseville, New York and Andrew J. Barber, age 28, of Plattsburgh, have been indicted for conspiring to manufacture methamphetamine and possessing pseudoephedrine with the intent to manufacture methamphetamine.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-La.) opened today’s Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis hearing by re-emphasizing China’s active deception with the emergence of the coronavirus, Democrats’ unwillingness to hold the country accountable for the pandemic, and America’s ability to fully recover economically.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Jose Salvador Gonzalez-Campos, 30, was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 472 months in prison for participating in murders on behalf of an MS-13 racketeering conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Redford, Michigan, has been sentenced in federal court to 120 months in jail on his conviction of violating federal drug laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Romanian national was sentenced today to 33 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to steal bank account information from thousands of customers by installing secret card-reading devices and pinhole cameras on ATMs throughout New Jersey and elsewhere, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Misty Dawn Bacon, 44, of Morristown, was sentenced by the Honorable Clifton L. Corker in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Greeneville.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: Yosemite National Park will reopen to all park visitors on Friday, Sept. 25, 2020 at 9:00 am. Some visitor services will be available and other visitor services will open incrementally over the weekend.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced it has approved Critical Decision 1 for the Versatile Test Reactor (VTR) project, a one-of-a-kind scientific user facility that would support research and development of innovative nuclear energy and other technologies.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Jose Salvador Gonzalez-Campos, 30, was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 472 months in prison for participating in murders on behalf of an MS-13 racketeering conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Shaquelle Coleman, 27, of Jamestown, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Nigerian national was sentenced today to 36 months in prison for his role in a computer hacking and identity theft scheme that defrauded vendors of nearly $1 million of office products after “phishing" e-mail login information from government employees, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
