News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A former PG&E employee pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud and admitted to receiving kickback payments from a Stockton transportation company owned by his cousin, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Casey Warren Lang, of Huttonsville, West Virginia, is facing drug and firearms charges, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A former captain in the Kansas City, Missouri, Fire Department pleaded guilty in federal court today to charges related to illegally selling 77 firearms over a five-year period, and to selling firearms to convicted felons.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Washington - As part of its efforts to enforce the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) and ensure fair trading practices within the U.S. produce industry, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative complaint against Martinez Fresh Produce LLC. The company, operating from Texas, allegedly failed to make payment promptly to eight produce sellers in the amount of $155,508 from April 2017 through March 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A federal grand jury in Providence has returned a superseding indictment charging six individuals with allegedly laundering millions of dollars gained through multi-faceted fraud schemes run out of Nigeria, primarily targeting elderly U.S. citizens.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: HONOLULU - Hamada Suisan Co. Ltd., the owner of a Japanese-flagged fishing vessel, was charged in federal court today with aiding and abetting the attempted export of shark fins out of Hawaii in violation of the Lacey Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Dr. Donald Yorlets, age 66, of New Oxford, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Court Judge Jennifer P. Wilson to defrauding the U.S. Department of Agriculture between 2016 and 2019 by submitting...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Santa Barbara County man was sentenced today to 36 months in federal prison for orchestrating a years-long scheme that defrauded investors out of more than $3.4 million with false promises to use their money to purchase shares of Facebook and Twitter prior to the companies’ initial public offerings.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: ABINGDON, VIRGINIA - Timothy Baxter, the former global medical director of Indivior, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Abingdon to a one-count misdemeanor information charging him with causing the introduction into interstate commerce of the opioid drug Suboxone Film, which was misbranded in violation of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Indivior’s former chief executive officer, Shaun Thaxter, recently pleaded guilty to a similar charge.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, sent a memorandum notifying all Committee Members of her intent to issue a subpoena to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy for documents he has been withholding from Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Lexington, Ky., man, Tyzon Zavonne Edwards, 22, was sentenced in federal court on Monday, to 140 months in prison, by Chief U.S. District Judge Danny Reeves, for possession with intent to distribute 40 grams of or more of fentanyl and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Andrew Joseph Sanders, 28, of Las Vegas, was sentenced on Friday, Aug. 28, by Chief U.S. District Judge Miranda Du to five years in federal prison for lighting two separate fires at The Drew Las Vegas, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich of the District of Nevada and Special Agent in Charge Patrick Gorman of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
By USDA Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated three Colorado counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Eagle, Washington and Yuma counties who suffered losses due to recent drought, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Park staff have observed that three peregrine falcon chicks have fledged from their nest on Devils Tower. The confirmation of chicks leaving the nest means that all rock climbing routes have reopened on the Tower. Each year, some climbing routes are temporarily closed during the spring and summer to protect falcon nesting sites and to protect climbers from adult falcons who will defensively dive to protect their young.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar today sentenced Stewart Williams, age 37, of Baltimore, to 77 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for a federal robbery charge in connection with a series of four robberies of video game stores committed...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: BOISE, Idaho -The Bureau of Reclamation is seeking proposals to develop pumped-storage hydroelectric power utilizing Lake Roosevelt located in Grand Coulee, Wash. Proposals must be submitted by Jan. 28, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Florida Man Sentenced for Racially-Motivated Interference with Election in Charlottesville, Virginia and for Cyberstalking in Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Aleksandr Pikus was sentenced by United States District Judge Ann M. Donnelly to 13 years’ imprisonment for his role in a massive healthcare kickback and money laundering conspiracy. Pikus was also ordered by the Court to pay restitution in the...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Following today's U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruling in the House Judiciary Committee v. McGahn case, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: WEST GLACIER, Mont. [Aug. 31, 2020] - On Saturday, August 29 at approximately 5:42 p.m., Glacier National Park rangers responded to a report of CPR in progress near Glacier Rim on the North Fork of the Flathead River.
