News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Miller Wilson, Jr. (50, Sparr), his daughter, Myoshi Wilson (26, Citra), and Erica Wilson (43, Ocala) have each pleaded guilty for their roles a scheme to defraud the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs health care benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, and Eric S. Dreiband, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, confirmed this evening that, as indicated in a press conference held earlier today by Wisconsin Attorney General...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that GARY R. GIBBS (“GIBBS"), age 66, a resident of Niceville, Florida, pled guilty today to conspiracy to defraud First NBC Bank, the New Orleans-based bank that failed in April 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: MACON, Ga. - A convicted felon living in Athens, Georgia was sentenced to serve more than nine years in prison for illegally possessing a firearm, said Charlie Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Lawrence resident pleaded guilty today to sexually exploiting two children under four years of age.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: Boulder City, Nev. - On Thursday, Aug. 27, and Thursday, Sept. 10, the Bureau of Reclamation will reduce releases from Davis Dam in an attempt to decrease the local caddisfly population - following a request from the cities of Laughlin, Nevada and Bullhead City, Arizona.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: North Carolina State Legislator Pleads Guilty to Making a False Statement to a Bank.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $3.2 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to eight EDA Economic Development District organizations across South Carolina to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Allen, South Dakota, woman was charged in federal district court with First Degree Murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors have filed charges against a Fashion District clothing importer and the company’s owner in a scheme to undervalue imported garments and avoid paying millions of dollars in duties to the United States. The cases also allege a tax fraud scheme in which the company’s owner failed to report on tax returns millions of dollars derived from cash transactions.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - Two men have been charged in federal court with looting three pharmacies in Chicago.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden County, New Jersey, man today admitted buying and reselling high-dosage oxycodone pills in Gloucester City, New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: Miami, Fl. - A federal judge in Miami sentenced Roberto Murillo, 44, of North Port, Florida, to 105 months in prison for his role in a massive health care fraud and wire fraud scheme involving fraudulent physical therapy claims. Senior U.S. District Judge Patricia A. Seitz imposed the sentence, which...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Aug. 24, 2020, U.S. District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner upheld the 28-year sentence imposed in 2011 of the former President Judge of the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas, Mark A. Ciavarella, age 70, for accepting millions in bribes and kickbacks from the owner of privately held juvenile detention facility.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: New York, New York - Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, Governors Island National Monument (NM) is increasing recreational access. The National Park Service (NPS) is working service wide with federal, state, and local public health authorities to closely monitor the COVID-19 pandemic and using a phased approach to increase access on a park-by-park basis.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: HARTFORD, Conn. - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Juan Hernandez, 37, of New London, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 48 months of imprisonment, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: Local, State, and Tribal Organizations in Oklahoma Receive $8 million for Domestic Violence Services.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain and Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers announced that the following defendants were indicted on charges of conspiracy, violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (“IEEPA"), and conspiracy to commit money laundering based on their attempt to transact in sanctioned Iranian petroleum.
