News from December 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Natick psychiatrist was arrested today in connection with charges that he billed Medicare and private insurance companies for over $10 million in treatments he did not provide and then obstructed justice in an attempt to conceal his crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a 74-count indictment charging Philip M. Close, 42, of Rochester, NY, with 61 counts of production of child pornography, and 13 counts of possession of material containing child pornography involving prepubescent minors. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in prison, a maximum of life in prison, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: PLATTSBURGH, NEW YORK - Mario Flores-Arias, age 32, and a citizen of Mexico, was arrested on December 5 and charged by criminal complaint with alien smuggling.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, the Subcommittee on Government Operations held a hearing about the presidential transition of power. In his opening statement, Subcommittee Ranking Member Jody Hice (R-Ga.) outlined the historic precedent for determining an apparent president-elect and criticized Democrats and others for the abhorrent treatment of General Services Administrator Emily Murphy as she followed the law in making a determination.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: Paniagua-Trejo had previous drug convictions in Iowa and Minnesota.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after President-elect Joe Biden nominated Katherine Tai to serve as the next U.S. Trade Representative...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - The Bureau of Reclamation notified Congress today of its intent to transfer ownership of the Provo River Project South Branch Canal to the Utah Lake Distributing Company (ULDC). This action continues the Trump Administration’s commitment to transferring appropriate water-related facilities...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: ROANOKE, Va. - A Texas man, who was involved in a traffic accident in Wythe County, Virginia on Feb. 10, 2020, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Roanoke to trafficking aliens, Acting United States Attorney Daniel P. Bubar announced.
By State Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Representatives Michael McCaul, Lead Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the committee, today released the following statement commemorating International Human Rights Day, the 72nd anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - Aaron Whitley, 21, has been sentenced to 240 months in federal prison for multiple Hobbs Act business robberies and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to those crimes of violence. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the sentence today.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON-Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-La.) issued the following statement in response to the Democrats’ false claims of political interference at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC):
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: Today the U.S. Census Bureau released new 5-year statistics. For the first time, data from the 2015-2019 American Community Survey (ACS) will allow users to compare three nonoverlapping sets of 5-year data: 2005-2009, 2010-2014 and 2015-2019. The ability to analyze separate datasets is important for identifying trends for small communities and geographies which is critical for planning future investments and services.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: Pain Clinic Medical Providers Sentenced for Their Roles in Operating Pill Mills in Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: Payments Are the Sixth Distribution in a Series of Payments That Together Will Constitute the Largest Payment of Forfeited Funds in the History of the Department of Justice’s Victim Compensation Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Muhammad Cheema, MD, 47, of Pittsford, NY, who was convicted of health care fraud, was sentenced to serve 18 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa. The defendant was also to pay restitution totaling $813,495.48 to the victim health care benefit programs that he defrauded.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA -Arthur Cofield and two others have been indicted for conspiracy to commit bank fraud and money laundering. Cofield is currently serving a prison sentence in a Georgia Correctional facility in Butts County, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: Defendant Reoffended while on Supervised Release for Federal Child Pornography Conviction.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected 14 projects to receive $8.7 million in Federal funding for cost-shared research and development under Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) DE-FOA-0002185, Coal-Derived Materials for Building, Infrastructure, and Other Applications, with the goal of fostering new uses for domestic coal resources.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: El Dorado, Arkansas - David Clay Fowlkes, First Assistant United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Justin Tyrone Seguin, age 37, of Camden, Arkansas, was sentenced today to 100 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release on one count of Possession...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: 147-Count Indictment Includes Inmates Orchestrating Murder, Kidnapping, Drugs and Firearms Distribution from Prison.
