News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: Indianapolis - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today, Levi Alexander Walters, 28, Westport, Ind., was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for three counts of sexual exploitation of a child.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: CINCINNATI - U.S. Attorney David M. DeVillers announced today that landlord John Klosterman and his wife, Susan Klosterman, will pay $177,500 total to resolve a Fair Housing Act lawsuit alleging that John Klosterman sexually harassed female tenants since at least 2013 at the 55 residential properties the couple owned in Sedamsville.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: Hawaii CEO Charged with COVID-Relief Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Sept. 29, 2020, Michael Sean Riley, age 52, of Ocala, Florida, was sentenced to 72 months’ imprisonment and ordered to forfeit up to $800,000, by United States District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner for his role in a money laundering conspiracy involving $800,000 in drug proceeds.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: Today, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Republican Leader of the Committee on Education and Labor, issued the following statement on the China Task Force’s release of a detailed report highlighting the generational threat of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: It’s typical during an election season to hear Democrats try to scare people into believing that Republicans want to destroy programs that Americans rely on for health and security.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Valerie Chu (619) 546-6750.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: SEATTLE - Administrator Steve Dickson fulfilled his promise today to pilot the Boeing 737 MAX before the Federal Aviation Administration approves the aircraft’s return to service.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced today that MATTHEW CUOMO, age 55, of Kansas City, Missouri, pleaded guilty to Forgery, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 513, before United States District Judge Lance M. Africk today. CUOMO faces a maximum...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a federal indictment charging GERALD SEAN CLARK, 49, with one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm and two counts of being a felon in possession of ammunition. CLARK will make his initial appearance in U.S. District Court at a later date.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: First Federal Criminal Jury Trial Conducted in Bay Area Since COVID-19 Shutdown.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: Barstow, Calif. - Today, the Bureau of Land Management approved the Southern California Edison Lugo-Victorville Remedial Action Scheme (LVRAS) project allowing for the installation of telecommunications facilities within three Southern California Edison rights-of-way that cross public lands in California and Nevada.
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: ST. LOUIS, MO - United States District Judge Audrey G. Fleissig sentenced Jorge Alexander Betances, Jr., on Tuesday, to 28 months in prison. The 24-year-old Philadelphia, Pennsylvania resident previously pleaded guilty to possession of device-making equipment.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian C. Rabbitt of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Assistant Administrator Tim McDermott of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Assistant Director Calvin Shivers of the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division, and Deputy Inspector General Gary...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. - A local area man suspected of a drive-by shooting that left one man dead on Monday surrendered himself the following afternoon to local law enforcement. Multiple federal agencies, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Douglas office, the U.S. Border Patrol, and the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office, assisted in this ongoing investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS, MO - The Drug Enforcement Administration, United States Marshals Service and Homeland Security Investigations arrested 10 people Tuesday, including seven in the St. Louis area and three in Phoenix, on charges that include conspiracy to distribute cocaine, methamphetamine, and marijuana. Defendants are expected to be presented in federal court today. Among those charged were.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2 million grant to the city of Woodward, Oklahoma, to make building renovations at the Woodward Industrial Airpark to attract and support businesses following devastating fires in 2018. The EDA grant will be matched with more than $1.2 million in local investment.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that YASIL SANTOS, also known as “Lilo," 25, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for distributing fentanyl and crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Yevgeniy Alexandrovich Nikulin was sentenced to 88 months in prison for hacking into LinkedIn, Dropbox, and the now-defunct social networking company formerly known as Formspring, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and FBI Special Agent in Charge John L. Bennett. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable William H. Alsup, U.S. District Judge.
