News from December 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: Hot Springs, Arkansas - David Clay Fowlkes, First Assistant United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced today that Alejandro Aurioles, age 32, of Hot Springs, Arkansas, was sentenced today to 97 months in federal prison without the possibility of parole followed by 10 years...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: Boulder City, Nev. - The Bureau of Reclamation is coordinating with the Bureau of Indian Affairs to lower the water level of Lake Moovalya to facilitate annual maintenance on the Colorado River Indian Tribes’ canals. The water level will be lowered by approximately one foot in elevation for about three weeks beginning in early-January. Lake Moovalya is the small body of water upstream of Headgate Rock Dam north of Parker, Arizona.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A 24-year-old New York man who admitted that he befriended then engaged in sexually explicit communications online with a 15-year-old Rhode Island boy, and who then relocated to Rhode Island and repeatedly engaged in illicit sexual activity with the minor, was sentenced today to five years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: A Sanford woman was sentenced today in federal court for conspiring to distribute fentanyl and cocaine, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: Today the U.S. Census Bureau published new data for Puerto Rico as part of the 2017 Economic Census of Island Areas. This program provides comprehensive information on employer businesses in American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - Former Postal employee Markeyta McAllister pleaded guilty to Obstruction of United States Mail for stealing cash and gift cards from more than 15 letters.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - United States Attorney Lawrence Keefe, of the Northern District of Florida, today announced that Colin Fisher, a citizen of the United Kingdom, was sentenced to two and a half years in federal prison on charges related to his attempt to export power generating equipment to Iran.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - Yesterday, the United States Attorney's Office unsealed a complaint against Dale L. Hipes, 39, of Scottsdale, Arizona, charging him with wire fraud and money laundering in connection with an alleged scheme to defraud by falsely claiming to be a distributor of 3M face masks.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: A darkweb cocaine and heroin trafficker has pleaded guilty to drug conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on RRD Produce Co. (RRD), Los Angeles, Calif., for violating the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA). These sanctions include barring the business and the principal operators of the business from engaging in PACA-licensed business or other activities without approval from USDA.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: Advanced Care Scripts agrees to pay $1.4 million to resolve allegations that it conspired with Biogen to pay kickbacks through the two foundations.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
Release: Because federal government agencies will be closed on Thursday, Dec. 24, the scheduled Export Sales Report for the week ending December 17 will be published on Wednesday, Dec. 23, at 8:30 a.m. EST.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Stephen H. Wong (619) 546-9464.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Ricardo Glenn was sentenced to 57 months in prison for conspiring to distribute fentanyl, acetyl fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, and crack cocaine, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $21 million in funding for three projects supporting offshore wind energy technology demonstration and resource characterization. These projects will support offshore wind development by demonstrating innovative technologies not previously commercially used in the United States for offshore wind, and by improving the ability to forecast energy production.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, today requested IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig provide an immediate briefing on whether taxpayer data was compromised in the SolarWinds hack.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey man was sentenced today to 24 months in prison today for possession with the intent to distribute heroin, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today introduced legislation to better address conflicts of interest for the president and other high-ranking government officials by modernizing business and debt disclosure requirements.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: BANGOR, Maine: A Waterville man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to three drug-related offenses, including conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MICHAEL GRAMINS, 38, of North Carolina, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny to two years of probation, the first six months of which Gramins must spend in home confinement, for defrauding mortgage-backed securities customers of Nomura Securities International, where he was employed. Judge Chatigny also ordered Gramins to perform 300 hours of community service.
