News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: The Bank of Nova Scotia Agrees To Pay $60.4 Million in Connection with Commodities Price Manipulation Scheme.
By State Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today sent a letter to Prime Minister al-Kadhimi of Iraq ahead of his official visit to the United States later this week. The senators express their continued support for a robust partnership between the U.S. and Iraq, and their desire to deepen that relationship for the benefit of both U.S. and Iraqi security and prosperity.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: The founder and chairman of a multinational investment company and a company consultant were sentenced to prison today for orchestrating a bribery scheme involving independent expenditure accounts and improper campaign contributions.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - JEREMY BALLEW, 43, of Tyler, Texas, and DANIELLE MONSERRATE, 40, of Rowlett, Texas, have been sentenced to serve federal prison terms of 57 months and 12 months respectively for the burglaries of three pharmacies in Kansas and Oklahoma, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ga. - A veteran who reaped federal monetary benefits for faking a mental health condition and who falsely claimed to have earned two of the highest honors bestowed for military service was sentenced to the top of his sentencing guideline range and will pay restitution for his crimes, said Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams announced today that a Portland man has been charged with assaulting a U.S. Marshals Service deputy with a baseball bat during a riot at the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse in downtown Portland on July 27, 2020.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, announced that more than 200 Members of the House of Representatives have now signed on as co-sponsors of H.R. 8015, the Delivering for America Act, which the House will consider on Saturday...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: DNA is not only the blueprint of life; it has become the backbone for making tiny structures that can be inserted into the human body to diagnose and treat disease. In particular, researchers are setting their sights on a technique known as DNA origami, in which they meticulously assemble hundreds of strands of DNA to build a Lilliputian collection of structures that could include drug delivery containers, biosensors and other biocompatible devices.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Francisco Cruz-Pica, a/k/a “Javi," 38, of Allentown, PA was sentenced to 10 years in prison, eight years of supervised release and ordered to pay a $1,200 fine by United States District Judge Jeffrey Schmehl for trafficking drugs and illegally possessing firearms, including a machine gun.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: Defendants Defrauded Victims of Tens of Millions of Dollars.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: NEW BERN, N.C. - A Wilmington man, Tysuan Nash, 31 was sentenced today to 80 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute 28 grams or more of crack cocaine and a quantity of heroin and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: As civil unrest and COVID-19 continue to impact our nation, the Department of Homeland Security remains focused on securing the homeland from foreign and domestic threats. The Department’s component agencies play a key role in the COVID-19 national response by creating, utilizing, and sharing resources, ...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: Today, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, Chad F. Wolf, introduced three new members to the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC): John Clark, Dr. Sharon Cooper, and Daniel Kaniewski. Created by President George W. Bush in 2002 , the HSAC is a Department of Homeland Security federal advisory committee that provides the secretary with independent, informed recommendations, and advice on a variety of homeland security issues.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: The Justice Department today filed a lawsuit in the District of Massachusetts alleging that PRTaylor Enterprises LLC, a company doing business as Father & Son Moving & Storage (Father & Son), violated the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) by failing to obtain a court order before auctioning off the entire contents of a U.S. Air Force Technical Sergeant’s two storage units while he was deployed overseas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: The Justice Department today filed a lawsuit in the Middle District of Florida alleging that Target Recovery Towing Inc. and Target Recovery & Transport Inc. (together “Target”) violated the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA), by failing to obtain a court order before auctioning off a car belonging ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: The United States has filed a False Claims Act complaint against Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. and Teva Neuroscience Inc. (Teva), alleging that they illegally paid the Medicare co-pays for their multiple sclerosis (MS) product, Copaxone, through purportedly independent foundations that the companies ...
By Labor Gazette | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia issued the following statement regarding the first round of awards to Iowa, Arizona, New Mexico, Louisiana, Utah, Colorado, and Missouri as part of the Lost Wages Assistance (LWA) program.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: ST. JOSEPH, MO – After a compliance review by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health USA Inc. – a global pharmaceutical company and federal contractor – will pay $379,089 in back pay and interest to 75 female employees to resolve alleged wage discrimination at its St. Joseph, Missouri, facility.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) today announced an interim final rule that will help workers determine their ability to retire by allowing them to estimate how their current savings in a 401(k)-type plan might translate into lifetime monthly payments.
