News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man was charged in federal district court with Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person and Threats Against the President.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Following a two-day trial, a federal jury in Albuquerque returned a guilty verdict on Sept. 22 against Quentin Veneno, Jr., 34, of Dulce, New Mexico, an enrolled member of the Jicarilla Apache Nation, on two counts of Domestic Assault by a Habitual Offender and one count of Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury. United States District Judge Kea W. Riggs presided.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Sept. 22, 2020, Jonathan Griffin (age: 28); Jason Spinks (age: 37); Shakie Davis (age: 25); and Treon Dennis (age: 36) of Fond du Lac, were indicted with conspiracy to make a false statement to a licensed firearms dealer and possession of firearms by felons, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 371, 922(g)(1) & 924(a)(2).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: BOISE - Douglas Wold, 48, of Meridian, was indicted on Sept. 10, 2020, by a federal grand jury sitting in Boise on eleven counts of wire fraud, one count of mail fraud, and one count of money laundering, announced U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Julie Keller, 55, of Corfu, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with mail fraud. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, or both.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, released a report that revealed millions of dollars in questionable financial transactions between Hunter Biden and his associates and foreign individuals, including the wife of the former mayor of Moscow and individuals with ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Justin Arthur Davis, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, has admitted to his part in an illegal firearms distribution operation, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - First Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Miguel Gonzalez Segovia, 31, of Veracruz, Mexico, was sentenced to ten years in prison, five years of supervised release by United States District Court Judge Joseph F. Leeson Jr. for trafficking drugs in the Lehigh Valley in November 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man was arrested today on a federal criminal charge for allegedly cyberstalking and harassing a former romantic partner.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS - Juan LaSalle Chase was sentenced to more than nine years in federal prison today. The 49-year-old resident of St. Louis previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute cocaine and marijuana and possession with intent to distribute cocaine and marijuana.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $3 million grant to the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, Red Lake, Minnesota, to construct the tribe's Adaawe-Wigamig Business Center. The EDA grant, to...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - An admitted drug dealer was sentenced today to 156 months in federal prison for selling a fatal dose of the powerful opioid fentanyl to a 19-year-old man who had been residing at a sober living home.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: TYLER, Texas -A 54-year-old Tyler, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - Erik Macklin, 24, has pleaded guilty to possessing a stolen gun. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the guilty plea 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 Interior Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: An investigation by US Park Rangers and Special Agents with the National Park Service (NPS) Investigative Services Branch has concluded in a prison sentence for a man who committed weapon violations in Saguaro National Park. Michael A. Romero, age 34, has been ordered to serve 18 months in prison followed by 36 months of supervised release.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today released new data from the second phase of the experimental Household Pulse Survey. The Household Pulse Survey is the result of an effort by the Census Bureau and other federal statistical agencies to document temporal trends in how individuals are experiencing business curtailment...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: The Defendants' Son Pretended to Be a New York Mobster as Part of Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: Three defendants made initial appearances in federal court Tuesday after being charged with the sex trafficking of children, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By State Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today released a summary of the 16,000-plus pages that the Department of State produced to the Committee last week reiterating the baselessness of the Senate Republicans’ dirty campaign against the President’s...
