News from February 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: Defendant Handled Cases In Court Under Stolen Attorney Identities And Applied Successfully For Coronavirus Relief Funds With a Fraudulent Application.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams announced today that, effective Feb. 28, 2021, he will step down as U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and David Sundberg, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced that two men have been charged for their alleged involvement in the kidnapping and murder of a Massachusetts...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: Owner of Recycling Plant Bribed Former San Francisco Department of Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru With A $36,000 Rolex Watch, Then Lied Repeatedly to FBI Agents.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance, Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance, and Possession of Firearms by a Prohibited Person.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: Postal Inspection Service intercepts more than six pounds of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: DENVER - The Denver Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration in partnership with Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, Arvada Police Department, and the 17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office, today announced the dismantling of an international drug trafficking ring and a related money laundering enterprise operating throughout Colorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: BISMARCK - United States Attorney Drew Wrigley announced that a federal grand jury has indicted Barry Christopher Brown, Jr., age 28 of Taylor, MI, for Conspiracy to Distribute Controlled Substances and Possession with Intent to Distribute Controlled Substances (oxycodone, fentanyl, and fentanyl-related substance), and Forfeiture Allegation ($66,000 in US Currency).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced he will resign as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia effective Feb. 28, 2021. Stuart’s resignation letter to President Joseph Biden is attached.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: ATLANTA - Kevin Perry, who ran an investment fraud scam that began when he was a teenager and resulted in more than $430,000 in losses to investors, has been sentenced to three years and five months in federal prison.
By State Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
Release: More information about Malawi is available on the Malawi Page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Yesterday, WILSON GRAMAJO-MALDONADO, 30, of Oklahoma City, was sentenced to serve 27 years in federal prison for child sex trafficking, announced United States Attorney Timothy J. Downing. In a related case, on Oct. 21, 2020, ERI LEONARDO CIFUENTES-LOPEZ, 40, of Oklahoma City, was...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) released the following statement on Trump impeachment lawyers’ false claims just now that the violent law enforcement crackdown against unarmed civilians at Lafayette Square on June 1, 2020, was a response to violence among the protesters.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Robert Costello, 53, of Bethlehem, PA, was arrested and charged by Indictment with three counts of receipt of child pornography, one count of access with intent to view child pornography, and one count of possession of child pornography. The defendant made his initial appearance in federal court this afternoon and will remain in custody until a detention hearing on Feb. 17, 2021.
By State Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
Release: More information about Malawi is available on the Malawi Page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Queens man has been charged with using hundreds of stolen and false identities to defraud a ride sharing business of over $500,000 in delivery driver referral benefits, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Matthew Zachariah Humphrey (26, Daytona Beach) has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and possessing a firearm in furtherance of that offense. He faces a minimum penalty of 5 years, and up to 40 years, in federal prison for the drug conspiracy and an additional 5 years’ imprisonment for possessing the firearm in furtherance of the conspiracy offense. Humphrey’s sentencing hearing is scheduled for April 27, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Matthew Zachariah Humphrey (26, Daytona Beach) has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and possessing a firearm in furtherance of that offense. He faces a minimum penalty of 5 years, and up to 40 years, in federal prison for the drug conspiracy and an additional 5 years’ imprisonment for possessing the firearm in furtherance of the conspiracy offense. Humphrey’s sentencing hearing is scheduled for April 27, 2021.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation is making nearly $2 billion in federal grant funding available to help airports affected by COVID-19 under the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Airport Coronavirus Response Grant Program.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: IOD MOCA/TUZI-VRP. Administrative Order #[21-001] [02/2021]. Closures, restrictions, and public use limits: Restrictions and Public Use Limits: Under the authority provided to the Superintendent in 36CFR I.5(a)(2) the following activities are restricted in Montezuma Castle National Monument (including...
