News from October 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2021
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced that a federal jury has found Tashe Goins, 32, of Chicago, Illinois, guilty of possession with intent to distribute cocaine after a two-day trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2021
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A transient man living in Savannah has been sentenced to federal prison for setting a February fire at a Savannah hotel.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Jason Lawrence Green, age 40, of Salisbury, Maryland, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute heroin, which he sold on the dark web (a part of the internet that is only accessible by using specific software the disguises the true location and identity of computers using the software to communicate). The guilty plea was entered on Oct. 12, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Richard G. Frohling of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that on Oct. 12, 2021, Natalie J. Ticho (age: 25) of Wausau, Wisconsin, was sentenced to 90 months in federal prison by Senior United States District Judge William C. Griesbach for distribution of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - William S. Thompson took the oath of office today to become the United States Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia. President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. announced Thompson’s nomination on Aug. 10, 2021, and the United States Senate confirmed him on October 5, 2021. Thompson was sworn in by Chief United States District Judge Thomas E. Johnston in a private ceremony.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A North Carolina man was sentenced yesterday in connection with a scheme to defraud his former employer, a Massachusetts-based uniform-supply company, by falsifying invoices.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2021
News Release: Law Enforcement Discovered Gun While Investigating Traffic Incident.
By DOJ Gazette | Oct 13, 2021
“IN RECOGNITION OF JOHN ROSENBERG“ was published in the Extensions of Remarks section on page E1079 on Oct. 8
By USDA Wire | Oct 13, 2021
“CELEBRATING HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH AND HONORING AMY MERCADO“ was published in the Extensions of Remarks section on page E1078 on Oct. 8
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Jan Sharp announced that Jackie Major, 46, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced today in federal court for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and using a firearm during a drug trafficking offense. United States District Judge Brian C. Buescher sentenced Major to consecutive...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that DEMETRIA MYERS SILVIO, age 32, of New Orleans, Louisiana, pled guilty on Oct. 13, 2021 to Wire Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2021
News Release: A Texas man pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of adulterating a drug that was used in cataract surgeries.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2021
News Release: In recognition of World Mental Health Day, today the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) jointly issued a fact sheet to support students with mental health disabilities, their families, and their schools in the era of COVID-19. Along with the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2021
News Release: A North Dakota man, formerly the executive vice president of U.S. operations at a publicly traded Canadian oil-services company, pleaded guilty today to perpetrating a scheme to fraudulently inflate the company’s reported revenue that resulted in shareholder losses in excess of $886 million. According ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2021
News Release: A Florida man pleaded guilty today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with a scheme to deceive banks and credit card companies into processing credit and debit card payments on behalf of merchants involved in prohibited and high-risk ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2021
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has opened a statewide investigation into the conditions in the five secure juvenile correctional facilities run by the Texas Juvenile Justice Department. The investigation will examine whether Texas provides children confined in the facilities reasonable ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2021
News Release: A Florida man pleaded guilty today in the District of New Jersey to fraudulently obtaining more than $4.6 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, and subsequently laundering the loan proceeds through a series of illicit financial transactions.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2021
News Release: A Georgia man was sentenced today to 18 months in federal prison for fraudulently obtaining $285,742 through a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2021
News Release: The owner and operator of a pipeline have agreed to pay a $1.5 million civil penalty under the Clean Water Act and $7.2 million in damages and mitigation to resolve federal and state Oil Pollution Act and Clean Water Act claims arising from a 2010 spill of over 1,800 barrels of oil into a globally rare ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2021
News Release: Daniel Jenkins, 22, of Dallas was sentenced today for committing violent crimes as part of a conspiracy to target users of the dating app Grindr. Jenkins was sentenced to a federal prison term of 280 months for his involvement in the scheme to target gay men for violent crimes. He is the last of four defendants to be sentenced in this case.
