News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: Today, the expansion of Operation Legend was announced in Memphis and St. Louis. Operation Legend is a sustained, systematic and coordinated law enforcement initiative in which federal law enforcement agencies work in conjunction with state and local law enforcement officials to fight violent crime. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: Charges were unsealed today against a former official at Citgo Petroleum Corporation, a Houston-based subsidiary of Venezuela’s state-owned and state-controlled energy company Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: A project manager employed by a major retailer has pleaded guilty to bank fraud charges for filing fraudulent bank loan applications seeking more than $8 million in forgivable Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, Audrey Strauss, the Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Jonathan Carson, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of Export Enforcement (OEE), announced ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: A Houston, Texas, attorney was sentenced to 24 months in prison for conspiring to defraud the United States and tax evasion, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick for the Southern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: The United States filed two civil forfeiture complaints today in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida alleging that commercial real estate in Louisville, Kentucky, and Dallas, Texas, both acquired using funds misappropriated from PrivatBank in Ukraine, are subject to forfeiture based on violations of federal money laundering statutes.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: Five individuals were charged in an indictment with fraudulently obtaining more than $4 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans and using those funds, in part, to purchase luxury vehicles. Authorities have seized a Range Rover worth approximately $125,000, jewelry, over $120,000 in cash, and over $3 million from 10 bank accounts at the time of arrest.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: The owner of a biofuel company was sentenced to seven years in prison followed by a three-year term of supervised release and ordered to pay $10,207,000 in restitution for defrauding multiple federal agencies and customers.
By Fed Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced a cease and desist order against Capital One Financial Corporation of McLean, Virginia. The enforcement action is the result of a significant data breach from March 2019 at the firm's national bank subsidiaries affecting the personal information of Capital One credit card customers and applicants for credit card products.
By Fed Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced details of the FedNow℠ Service, a new 24x7x365 interbank settlement service with clearing functionality to support instant payments in the United States.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) today announced the signing of an agreement with Bank of America N.A. that implements systemic changes enhancing the employer’s working environment by taking defined steps to accommodate the reasonable break time for nursing ...
By Labor Gazette | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) today announced the signing of an agreement with Bank of America N.A. that implements systemic changes enhancing the employer’s working environment by taking defined steps to accommodate the reasonable break time for nursing ...
By DOE Gazette | Aug 6, 2020
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Aug. 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 6, 2020
The US Transportation Department published a three page proposed rule on Aug. 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 6, 2020
The US Transportation Department published a three page proposed rule on Aug. 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 6, 2020
The US Transportation Department published a one page proposed rule on Aug. 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 6, 2020
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Aug. 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | Aug 6, 2020
The US State Department published a one page notice on Aug. 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 6, 2020
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Aug. 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Aug 6, 2020
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Aug. 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
