News from December 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
News Release: Mae Ava Carse Properties, LLC, PHP Property Managers, LLC, Claude E. Phillips Properties, LLC, and Deborah J. Payne (Defendants) have agreed to pay the United States $150,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729-3733, by knowingly and unlawfully collecting...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
News Release: In El Paso today, federal authorities arrested 23-year-old El Paso police officer Monica Garcia for allegedly helping a local drug distributor to further his criminal enterprise, announced U.S. Attorney Gregg N. Sofer; Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Kyle Williamson, El Paso Division; and El Paso Police Chief Greg Allen.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man was sentenced today to 14 months in federal prison for illegally structuring nearly $350,000 in cash deposits in an effort to evade federal reporting requirements.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the winners of the American-Made Solar Prize Round 3 and the 20 semifinalist teams selected to advance to the next phase of Round 4. Through the Solar Prize, DOE works to bring hardware technology innovations to market faster and to bolster American competitiveness in solar hardware manufacturing.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement regarding the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) November 2020 jobs report...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - WILLIAM STANLEY, 59, of Massachusetts, an inmate at the Federal Transfer Center, has been sentenced to serve 78 additional months in federal prison for the assault of a Federal Bureau of Prisons officer causing bodily injury, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr. announced today that Freedom Lee, 26, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, was sentenced to serve 69 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J.- A Bronx, New York, man was charged for his participation in a scheme to steal and alter checks from the mail and engage in bank fraud, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 4, 2020
News Release: ELY, Nev. - In keeping with the Department of the Interior’s priority of sustainably and responsibly developing our the nation’s natural resources, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Ely District has prepared a draft environmental impact statement analyzing a proposal to expand the Robinson Mine located...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2020
News Release: McALLEN - A 42-year-old man from Edcouch has pleaded guilty to aiming a laser pointer at an aircraft, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - An Illinois man was arrested today and charged in federal court in Boston with producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Dec. 1, 2020, Daniel Gologan, age 31, of Romania, was sentenced to 40 months’ imprisonment by United States District Judge Robert D. Mariani, for bank fraud and identity theft offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2020
News Release: Flagstaff, AZ - On Dec. 02, 2020 the U.S. Marshals Service led Arizona WANTED Violent Offenders Task Force, working in conjunction with deputies in Las Vegas, Nevada and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, arrested Ashley Thomas (29) and Shawn Johnson (45) on the felony charge of abduction of a child from a state agency.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2020
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - Senior U.S. District Judge Michael M. Mihm today sentenced William Armstrong, 25, of the 1100 block of Falcon Dr., Rantoul, Ill., to serve 90 months in federal prison for transportation and possession of child pornography. Judge Mihm noted the violent nature of the images of infants and toddlers in violent and sadistic depictions.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Monmouth County, New Jersey, man today admitted being a felon in possession of a firearm and unlawfully possessing a machinegun, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2020
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. -The U.S Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Kentucky has resolved its Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliance review of the Kentucky Horse Park’s Covered Arena. The United States Attorney’s Office initiated the compliance review after receiving a complaint from a private citizen about barriers to access at the Covered Arena for individuals with disabilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2020
News Release: The Department of Justice’s U.S. Trustee Program (USTP) has entered into a settlement agreement with global consulting firm McKinsey & Company (McKinsey) requiring McKinsey to forego payment of fees in the Westmoreland Coal bankruptcy case pending in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2020
News Release: A former correctional officer at the Hawaii Community Correctional Center pleaded guilty to three felony offenses yesterday for assaulting an inmate; for failing to protect the inmate from being assaulted by three other correctional officers; and for conspiring with those officers to cover it up.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2020
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that it filed a lawsuit against Facebook Inc. for discriminating against U.S. workers. The lawsuit alleges that Facebook refused to recruit, consider, or hire qualified and available U.S. workers for over 2,600 positions that Facebook, instead, reserved for temporary ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2020
News Release: Ergonomic office furniture maker Workrite Ergonomics LLC, a Delaware company, and its parent, Knape & Vogt Manufacturing Co. (collectively, Workrite), have agreed to pay $7.1 million to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act that they overcharged the federal government for office furniture under ...
