News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - A Ghanaian citizen residing in Tamale, Ghana, has been extradited to stand trial for an indictment charging him with wire fraud, money laundering, computer fraud and aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, PA, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of violating federal fraud laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - A man has admitted he filed a tax return alleging there were no taxes owed, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - A 37-year-old Houston man has been handed a significant sentence following his conviction of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A San Gabriel Valley man was sentenced today to 34 months in federal prison for fraudulently submitting more than $62 million in claims to the military’s TRICARE health care benefit program for bogus compounded medications prescriptions largely generated by the payment of large referral fees to marketers.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Vale, South Dakota, woman was charged in federal district court with thirty counts of Wire Fraud, ten counts of Money Laundering, and one count of Bank Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: Birmingham, Ala. - A federal jury today convicted two individuals for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and heroin, announced U.S. Attorney Prim Escalona, Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent in Charge Robert Hammer, and Secretary of the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency Hal Taylor.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Senate Aging Committee Ranking Member Bob Casey, D-Pa., today highlighted worsening shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) reported by nursing homes across the country in recent weeks.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) sent a letter to the Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Admiral Karl L. Schultz, calling for a formal review of USCG certified training materials after the Chairs learned of an offensive mnemonic device circulating in such material.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Federal charges were unsealed today in a case involving a Hampton-based business, its owner and employees, and their alleged involvement in an extensive procurement fraud scheme involving millions of dollars in government contracts targeting the Department of Defense and other federal government agencies.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: Miami Neighbors Charged with COVID-Relief Fraud after Falsely Claiming to be Farmers.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of ADAM LEE REITZ, 30, to 324 months in prison for producing child pornography. REITZ, who pleaded guilty on Oct. 29, 2019, was sentenced earlier today before Judge Nancy E. Brasel in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota. REITZ’s co-defendant SHAHLA MARIE THOMPSON, 28, pleaded guilty on July 13, 2020, to one count of receipt of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - A Ghanaian citizen residing in Tamale, Ghana, has been extradited to stand trial for an indictment charging him with wire fraud, money laundering, computer fraud and aggravated identity theft.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a letter to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue Tuesday, Chairwoman Stacey E. Plaskett of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research ; Committee members Rodney Davis of Illinois and Anthony Brindisi of New York; and Congressman Dan Newhouse of Washington...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A member of the North Carolina House of Representatives pleaded guilty today to making a false statement to a bank and failing to file an income tax return, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Leonardo Dan Almonte-Fernandez, 39, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged by Indictment with one count of malicious damage of a building by means of fire affecting interstate commerce, one count of the use of fire to commit another felony, and three counts of wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: OAKLAND - John Vicencio Vinoya was sentenced today to six years in prison, to be followed by twenty years of supervised release, for attempted receipt of child pornography, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Tatum King. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Kan. -Anthony Contreras, 22, Overland Park, Kan., is charged with one count of unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, one count of distributing fentanyl and one count of possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking. The crimes are alleged to have occurred July 22, 2020, in Wyandotte County, Kan.
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, Saint Paul's Church National Historic Site (NHS) is increasing access to park grounds. 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: DAYTON - Two brothers originally from Dayton and four others were arrested in North Carolina today for their alleged participation in a narcotics conspiracy responsible for distributing bulk amounts of fentanyl and cocaine to Dayton.
