News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY - Aug. 31, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Miami, Fl. -- South Florida federal prosecutors have charged 28-year-old Brandon Kevin Campbell with cyberstalking after he allegedly made repeated threats by telephone call and text message to injure or kill his victims, including a former girlfriend.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Hawaii Businesswoman Pleads Guilty to Facilitating Back-Channel Lobbying Campaign to Drop 1MDB Investigation and Remove a Foreign National to China.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Eugenio Menez, a former physician of Fairmont, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 48 months in prison following a drug charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Company Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering Violation as Part of Scheme to Circumvent North Korean Sanctions and Deceive Banks, Agrees to Pay Forfeiture and Fine.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Washington - As part of its commitment to ensuring fair and competitive markets for the livestock, meat, and poultry industries, on Aug. 26, 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued a complaint against Richard Gresham, doing business as H & D Cattle (Gresham) of Cushing, Texas, for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) urges response crews and residents in areas affected by Hurricane Laura to be aware of hazards created by flooding, power loss, structural damage, fallen trees and storm debris.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: A Kittery man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Portland to two counts of interstate travel to violate a protection order, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C., Aug. 31, 2020) – Deputy Undersecretary for Research, Education, Economics Dr. Scott Hutchins announced today that USDA has named Dr. Spiro Stefanou to lead the Economic Research Service (ERS) as its new Administrator.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, Aug. 31, 2020 – United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development Bette Brand today announced that USDA is implementing the OneRD Guarantee Loan Initiative , releasing new information on rates and terms that will help lenders apply for loan guarantees to support rural businesses, infrastructure and community facilities and increase private investments in rural America.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Summer meal programs can continue operating as funding allows (Washington, DC, Aug. 31, 2020) – Today, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will extend several flexibilities through as late as Dec. 31, 2020. The flexibilities allow summer ...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: USDA ReConnect Funding to Connect 3,005 Households in Scott County to High-Speed Broadband GATE CITY, Va., Aug. 31, 2020 – The Trump Administration today announced that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $9 million to provide broadband service in unserved and underserved rural areas in Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: A North Carolina man pleaded guilty today to perpetrating three schemes between March and July 2020 connected to the COVID-19 pandemic, through which he defrauded consumers and the federal government’s relief programs. Brandon Lewis, 34, of Greensboro, North Carolina, pleaded guilty to a criminal information ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Daniel McMahon, 32, was sentenced today in federal court in the Western District of Virginia to 41 months of imprisonment for threatening an African-American Charlottesville City Council candidate because of his race and because he was running for office, and for cyberstalking a separate victim through ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Yang Ban Corporation, a company established in the British Virgin Islands in 2014 that operated in South East Asia pleaded guilty today to conspiring to launder monetary instruments in connection with evading sanctions on North Korea and deceiving correspondent banks into processing U.S. dollar transactions. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: A Brooklyn man was sentenced to 156 months in prison today for his role in a vast multimillion-dollar health care kickback and money laundering conspiracy, the Department of Justice announced today. Aleksandr Pikus, 45, of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Ann M. Donnelly of the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Each weekday, the Department of Justice will highlight a case that has resulted from Operation Legend. Today’s case is out of the Western District of Missouri – the district where the Department of Justice launched Operation Legend, in honor of four-year-old LeGend Taliferro who was shot while he slept in his home in Kansas City, Missouri. Since its inception, Operation Legend has yielded close to 1,500 federal, state, and local arrests.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: An American businesswoman with international ties pleaded guilty today for her role in facilitating an unregistered lobbying campaign of the Administration of the President of the United States and the U.S. Department of Justice on behalf of foreign principals in exchange for millions of dollars.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: The United States announced today that Indianapolis Power & Light Company (IPL) has agreed to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Air Act and Indiana law by undertaking measures to improve its environmental compliance at the Petersburg Generating Station, in Pike County, Indiana. The State of Indiana is also a party to today’s agreement.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: A federal grand jury in Greensboro, North Carolina, returned an indictment today charging two tax preparers with conspiring to defraud the United States and assisting in the preparation of false client tax returns, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Matthew G.T. Martin for the Middle District of North Carolina.
