News from December 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on December 9, 2020, Rafael Lora, age 45, to Hazleton, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 24 months’ imprisonment and a two-year term of supervised release by United States District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani, for conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: From Dec. 15, 2020 to Jan. 15, 2021, the National Park Service (NPS) will accept public bid applications for twenty-seven Agricultural Special Use Permits for haying of designated fields located within Buffalo National River in portions of Newton, Searcy, and Marion Counties. Through these permits...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - Travis Peterson has been indicted by a federal grand jury on mail and wire fraud charges for operating a fraudulent charity scheme. For years he allegedly used millions of robocalls to urge people to donate vehicles and other valuable items by falsely claiming their donations would go to veterans’ charities and were tax-deductible.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a report today from a School Security Simulation Experiment (SIMEX) focused on current security procedures and technologies to improve both physical and operational security in K-12 schools. The two-week SIMEX, conducted...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - New funding will allow development to continue for cutting-edge technology that keeps the wireless devices of unwanted intruders at bay. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate’s (S&T) Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP), has awarded a Phase 5 Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) to Bastille Networks, an Internet of Things (IoT) technology company located in Atlanta, Georgia, to continue their work with DHS.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: Dear Director Collins:. On December 8, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a hearing titled, “Early Outpatient Treatment: An Essential Part of a COVID-19 Solution, Part II."[1] At the hearing, physicians discussed early outpatient treatments for COVID-19 - using widely...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement calling for the United States to prioritize resuming trade cooperation and negotiations with Europe...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: Defendant Falsified Time Sheets and Invoices to Steal Tens of Thousands of Dollars from Charity.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: Shawn E. Whitecotton, 49, of Herrin, Illinois, pleaded guilty today to a two-count felony information charging him with making false statements on government forms. As part of his guilty plea, Whitecotton admitted concealing from the federal government thousands of dollars he received from a government...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Residents of Los Angeles, California, and Henderson, Nevada, pleaded guilty this week in federal court to charges of healthcare fraud, conspiracy to commit fraud, and conspiracy to violate the federal anti-kickback statutes, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today. Additionally, 16 corporate entities (pharmacies) pled guilty to charges of healthcare fraud, conspiracy to commit fraud, and/or conspiracy to violate the federal anti-kickback statutes.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: Man Who Worked At Local Research Institute For 10 Years Pleads Guilty To Conspiring To Steal Trade Secrets, Sell Them In China.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A 48-year-old Zapata, Texas man has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for drug trafficking crimes in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox today.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: With over 400 miles of trails, Big South Fork National River & Recreation Area is seeking volunteers to assist in keeping them in great shape. If you enjoy the outdoors, and spending time in the park, join the park’s Trail Keepers program today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and David Sundberg, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that ROBERT ECCLESTON, 56, of Canton, was arrested today on a federal criminal complaint charging him with distribution of child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today released new data tables from the 2019 Service Annual Survey (SAS). The SAS table package provides statistics on revenue, payroll, sources of revenue, expenses, exports, inventory, revenue from electronic sources, and other selected industry-specific data for service industries.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $6.4 million grant to the town of Pembroke, North Carolina, to make critical wastewater infrastructure improvements needed to protect and support the community...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: Miami, Fl. -- Two Miami residents accused of stealing 192 U.S. government-owned medical ventilators worth about three million dollars were indicted on federal charges. According to court documents, the ventilators were heading to a COVID-19 intensive care facility in El Salvador as part of a United States Government COVID-19 aid program when they were stolen in South Florida, while in transit.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: NEW YORK - A six-count indictment was unsealed in the Eastern District of New York (EDNY) Thursday charging Dat Tat Ho and Manh Ngoc Nguyen with conspiring to defraud U.S. government agencies and alien smuggling for financial gain, and related crimes. The defendants allegedly smuggled Vietnamese aliens...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the unsealing of a federal indictment charging ANDREW CHARLES WELSH, 41, with intentionally setting fire to his business and submitting a fraudulent insurance claim. WELSH, who was arrested earlier today, made his initial appearance today before Magistrate Judge Kate M. Menendez in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) provided planning considerations to assist the nation’s airports to facilitate the safe and efficient transportation of COVID-19 vaccines.
