News from December 2020
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury has returned a 35-count indictment alleging that a Fashion District outfit was at the center of two schemes, one that avoided the payment of more than $10 million in customs duties on imported clothing, and a second “Black Market Peso Exchange" scheme in which the company laundered narcotics proceeds and failed to report on tax returns over $17 million derived from cash transactions.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: GUILTY PLEA - VANCY BRIDGES. On December 4, Vancy Bridges, 76, plead guilty to misprision of a felony. Bridges worked as a doctor and supervised nurse practitioners for in-home patients. Bridges was unaware that that a co-worker had been previously convicted of healthcare-related fraud and had no medical...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that an Indictment was unsealed today charging four defendants with the murder of Philadelphia Police Corporal James “Jimmy" O’Connor, posthumously promoted to Sergeant, and related drug trafficking and firearms offenses. The defendants...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in Boston in connection with fraudulently using the identity of a U.S. citizen.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: MISSOULA - A Plains man who admitted creating and transporting child pornography videos was sentenced today to 240 months in prison following by 10 years of supervised release, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif Johnson said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - The former owner of Providence Home Health and Providence Hospice has agreed to pay $1.05 million to settle claims she knowingly and willfully paid improper kickbacks for referrals of Medicare patients to her businesses, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick along with Special Agent in Charge Miranda Bennett of the Department of Health and Human Services - Office of Inspector General (DHHS-OIG).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Edward Bean, 53, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced on December 9, 2020 in federal court for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute. United States District Judge Brian C. Buescher sentenced Bean to 130 months’ incarceration to be followed by five years of supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $35 million in funding for bioenergy feedstock technologies and algae research and development. This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) supports the White House priority for advancing the domestic bioeconomy, as well as the Bioenergy Technologies Office’s goals of improving the performance and lowering the cost and risk of technologies that can be used to produce biofuels, biopower, and bioproducts.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Jay Jay William Hedrick, of Petersburg West Virginia, has admitted to a firearms charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was sentenced in federal court in Boston for heroin and fentanyl trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RONEY SOSA, 24, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 87 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release for his role in a heroin and fentanyl trafficking ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: Federal, state and local authorities have arrested eight individuals on federal drug trafficking charges, including 41-year-old Texas Syndicate Lieutenant Hilario Nieto whose sentence President Barack Obama previously commuted, announced U.S. Attorney Gregg N. Sofer; Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Steven S. Whipple, Houston Division; and Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Director Steven McCraw.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) will launch its first Homeland Security Startup Studio in January. The innovative program is a partnership with FedTech, aimed at commercializing federally funded breakthrough technologies to support homeland security missions.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $33 million in funding to support innovative hydrogen and fuel cell research & development (R&D), infrastructure supply chain development and validation, and cost analysis activities. This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) builds upon existing...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky. - A Montgomery County, Ky., man, Scotty Allen Jones, 48, was sentenced on Thursday to 268 months in federal prison, by U.S. District Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove, for distributing a fentanyl and heroin mixture, possessing acetylfentanyl with intent to distribute, possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, and being a felon in possession of firearms.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: West Side of Rocky Mountain National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: HARTFORD, Conn. - DEA New England Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Roney Sosa, 24, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 87 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release for his role in a heroin and fentanyl trafficking ring.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued a subpoena to Commerce Secretary Wilbur L. Ross for the full unredacted set of internal Census documents requested by the Committee last month relating to data errors and delays with the 2020 Census.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today issued the following statement after Oversight Democrats needlessly issued a subpoena to an already cooperative Census Bureau.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: Defendant Admits Receiving Nearly $2M for Defunct Business.
