News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two New Jersey residents were charged for their participation in a multi-year $1 million embezzlement scheme, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that earlier today Willie C. Wade (age: 57), a former Milwaukee alderman, was sentenced by United States District Judge Lynn Adelman to four (4) months in prison for executing a wire fraud scheme. Following his term of imprisonment, Wade also must serve three (3) years on supervised release.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
Release: JUMP into STEM , the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) online building energy-efficiency competition, is entering its third year with three new concurrent challenges open to university student submissions starting Aug. 3, 2020. Challenges will be open through Nov. 13, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: Both Properties Worth a Combined $70 Million.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: Today, Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released a statement announcing the Energy and Commerce Committee will launch an investigation into health and dental insurance companies’ business practices following reports that many of the companies are recording record profit margins during the COVID-19 pandemic...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Wood County man was sentenced to 103 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, according to United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Jeromee Todd Donaway, 31, of Parkersburg, also will serve three years on supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. - Several wildland firefighting resources have arrived at the Richard Mountain fire burning approximately 50 miles south of Rock Springs in both Utah and Wyoming. A total of 217 firefighters are now working to keep the fire west of Red Creek, south of Clay Basin Road, East of Highway 191, and north of Browns Park Road.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: Cuyahoga Valley National Park News Release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: PLATTSBURGH, NEW YORK - Jade Martin, age 25, of Cornwall Island, Ontario, Canada, made his initial appearance today in federal court in Plattsburgh, on charges that he knowingly concealed $256,910 in United States currency in his car, with the intent to evade currency reporting requirements, and attempted to transport that currency from the United States into Canada.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: Today, Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released a statement announcing the Energy and Commerce Committee will launch an investigation into health and dental insurance companies’ business practices following reports that many of the companies are recording record profit margins during the COVID-19 pandemic...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA - Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement at the outset of the Rural and Underserved Communities Health Task Force’s bipartisan member roundtable entitled, “Examining the Role of Telehealth during COVID-19 and Beyond"...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - Milton Ayimadu has been arraigned on federal charges of hoarding and price gouging in violation of the Defense Production Act of 1950 (DPA). Ayimadu was charged by a criminal information.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Kyle Kamholtz, 33, of Jamestown, NY, who was convicted of possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine, and possessing of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, was sentenced to serve 152 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: JACKSON, Miss. - Indictments were unsealed Thursday against four individuals who were managers, supervisors or human resources personnel at Mississippi-based companies where federal agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) executed criminal and...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: ALAMOGORDO, NM - Every August, we are treated to the largest and most active meteor shower of the year: the Perseid Meteor Shower. White Sands National Park invites you to join us as we celebrate the meteor shower through a series of online events.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: The owner of a Florida talent management company, two Northeast Ohio men, and six others have been charged via criminal complaint in federal court for their alleged participation in a scheme to file fraudulent loan applications seeking more than $24 million in forgivable Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: Northern District of Ohio entities received $875,000 in fraudulent PPP loans.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: NORTH BEND, Ore. - Beginning Aug. 10, the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service will close 25 miles of road leading into and through the Devil’s Staircase Wilderness in Douglas County to motorized and mechanized use (mechanized use includes bicycles). By taking action to prohibit vehicle use within the wilderness areas, the two agencies are cooperating to advance and preserve the undeveloped character of the area, as required by the Wilderness Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: A Dallas real estate developer has pleaded guilty to bribery of a Dallas City Council Member, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that DAMIAN LABEAUD (“LABEAUD"), age 48, of New Orleans, entered a plea of guilty today to Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371, arising out of staged automobile accidents with tractor-trailers occurring in New Orleans.
