News from January 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - The grand jury yesterday returned an indictment that charges David W. Morlan, 66, of Danville, Ill., with failure to register and update his address as required by the federal Sex Offender Notification and Registration Act (SORNA.).
By DOE Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) announced today that the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee will hold a fully remote hearing on Thursday, February 4, at 12 p.m. (EST) entitled “Safeguarding American Consumers: Fighting Scams and Fraud During the Pandemic."
By State Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A registered sex offender from Southeast Texas was sentenced to 17 years in federal prison Thursday for receiving child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - A Hoopeston, Ill., man, Dalton M.C. Burmeister, 27, has been indicted on charges of child sexual exploitation and trafficking of child pornography. The indictment alleges that in September 2020, Burmeister exploited children under the age of six to engage in sexual activity and to create an image of the conduct and that he trafficked images of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a Birmingham man for a carjacking and shooting that occurred in Birmingham in 2019, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Mickey French.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: Justice Department Seeks to Shut Down Southern Florida Tax Return Preparer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: Man Charged with $1.9 Million COVID-Relief Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned an 11-count indictment today against members of a drug trafficking organization, charging them with fentanyl trafficking and other related offenses, United States Attorney McGregor Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned an indictment charging RONNELL ROGERS, 27, of New Haven with narcotics distribution and firearm possession offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Alexander Kawleski, 44, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 18 years in federal prison for producing and possessing child pornography. Kawleski was convicted of these charges on July 17, 2019, following a three-day jury trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Fitchburg man pleaded guilty today to his role in a fentanyl and crack cocaine trafficking conspiracy. The defendant sold drugs to customers in the Fitchburg area and had associates sell drugs on his behalf.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago investment manager who fled the country after being charged in a fraud scheme has been returned to the United States from Indonesia.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
Release: Florida airports are once again in the top airports in the country for flyers bringing guns to the TSA checkpoints in 2020: Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood and Orlando were in the top 10 and Tampa International came in at 11th place, Miami International 13th and Jacksonville International placed at 24th.
By State Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC-Today, Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement today regarding President Biden’s reversal of the Global Gag Rule (GGR). President Trump’s reinstatement and unprecedented expansions of the GGR denied foreign non-governmental...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - athenahealth, Inc. (Athena), a Watertown-based developer of electronic health records (EHR) services, has agreed to pay $18.25 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act (FCA) by paying illegal kickbacks to generate sales of its EHR product, athenaClinicals.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Union County, New Jersey, man convicted of being a felon in possession of a semi-automatic submachine gun with a high capacity magazine was sentenced today to 120 months in prison, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: Federal Court Permanently Bars Southern Florida Tax Preparer from Preparing Returns.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), incoming Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today announced her agenda for the beginning of the 117th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - A federal grand jury indicted 25-year-old Cevone Weeden and 35-year-old Herschell Perkins on one count, each, of discharge of one or more firearms in furtherance of the commission of a drug trafficking crime causing death. The same federal grand jury also indicted Weeden on one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess, with the intent to distribute, controlled substances, including fentanyl.
