News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A St. Albans man was sentenced today for his role in a drug crime that spanned several states, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. John Harvey Bush Jr., 27, was sentenced to 51 months in prison to be followed by four years of supervised release. Bush had previously pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute five grams or more of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: An indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Javier Aguilar with conspiring to violate the anti-bribery provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and money laundering conspiracy for his involvement in a scheme to pay approximately $870,000 in bribes to Ecuadorian...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An illegal alien and admitted MS-13 gang member was sentenced today to 28 months in prison for serving as a getaway driver for three men associated with MS-13 who had just committed an armed robbery.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON -Today, U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, issued the following statement regarding the agreement on the continuing resolution.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - A 61-year-old Mexican man briefly in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) following his release from federal prison passed away Monday at the Piedmont Columbus Regional Hospital in Columbus, Georgia. The preliminary cause of death was reported by hospital medical officials to be cardiopulmonary arrest, secondary to complications of coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Maryland man was sentenced today to six years in prison for aggravated identity theft and conspiring to defraud over 20 financial institutions.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - At a signing ceremony today in the U.S. Capitol, U.S. Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Congressman Hal Rogers formally established Mill Springs Battlefield National Monument in Nancy, Kentucky, as the 421st unit of the National Park System. Mill Springs was the site of the first major victory for the Union Army during the Civil War.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Nigerian man was sentenced today to over five years in prison for trafficking more than 30 kilograms of heroin intended for importation into the United States.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - An Ecuadorian national charged with assault and battery on a pregnant victim and strangulation/suffocation, and a Trinidad and Tobago national convicted of capital sexual battery and lewd and lascivious molestation, are two of the most egregious cases of detainers placed in August by local...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - As part of an international effort to disrupt narcotics trafficking on the darknet, special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and members of the Los Angeles Joint Criminal Opioid and Darknet Enforcement (JCODE) Task Force...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the unsealing of an Indictment in Manhattan federal court charging...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - At a press conference in Milwaukee today, Attorney General William P. Barr announced updates on Operation LeGend. He was joined by Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, who announced charges against 26 defendants who allegedly operated a violent drug trafficking organization in Milwaukee. Law enforcement resources allocated by Operation LeGend contributed to the investigation and today’s enforcement operation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - During the first three weeks of September, the U.S. Marshals Service’s Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force, along with USMS personnel from Superior and District Courts, partnered with the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department and several other agencies to lead Operation Washout, ...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after the House of Representatives passed H.R. 991, the Extension of the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act, which reauthorizes the U.S. Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act (CBTPA) until 2030...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: Sargeant Marine Inc. Pleads Guilty and Agrees to Pay $16.6 Million to Resolve Charges Related to Foreign Bribery Schemes in Brazil, Venezuela, and Ecuador.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) expressed their serious concerns with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) lack of transparency...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of McKeesport, PA, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal law relating to the sexual exploitation of children, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. And where there’s a real-world technical challenge, there’s the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) to provide an innovative solution.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that DANIEL IGNACIO MEJIA-CASTILLO (MEJIA), age 31, a citizen of the Honduras, was charged on Sept. 18, 2020 in a one-count indictment for possession of fraudulent immigration documents, in violation of 18 U.S.C. ' 1546(a).
By DOE Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced plans to make available $122 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development under the funding opportunity announcement (FOA) Carbon Ore, Rare Earth, and Critical Minerals (CORE-CM) Initiative for U.S. Basins.
