News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Lynn man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with receiving and laundering approximately $1.4 million fraudulently obtained from a Korean company.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: MIAMI - On February 4, 2020, Ariana Fajardo Orshan, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami Division, and Roland D. Pandolfi, Chief of Police, Miccosukee Police Department, announced the convictions of all eight (8) defendants in United States v. Michel Aleu, et al. Case No. 19-20435-Cr-Gayles.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: In San Antonio today, 41-year-old Karen Mgerian admitted to conspiring to launder millions of dollars of purported drug proceeds through a scheme that included the sale of luxury cars, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash, Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Goss, Houston Field Office and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge Steven S. Whipple, Houston Division.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $18.8 million toward the research and development (R&D) of innovative subsurface geothermal technologies. DOE’s Geothermal Technologies Office (GTO) will fund up to six projects focused on two topic areas.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has announced up to $4 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development (R&D) projects under the funding opportunity announcement (FOA) DE-FOA-0002190, Research for Innovative Emission Reduction Technologies Related to Coal Combustion Residuals.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Keith Edward Ross, of Oak Hill, West Virginia, has admitted to heroin distribution, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By State Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), ranking member of the Subcommittee on Europe and Regional Security Cooperation, today met with Mr. David Zalkaliani, foreign minister of Georgia.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An active duty Air Force colonel was sentenced today to five years in prison for receiving images of child sexual abuse.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: Grand Teton National Park is developing an environmental assessment to address proposed improvements to a concessions contract which provides visitor services at Colter Bay Village, Jackson Lake Lodge, Jenny Lake Lodge, and other locations in the park. The park is encouraging public comment on the proposed improvements by March 5, 2020.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: Gulf Breeze, Fla. - Gulf Islands National Seashore plans to conduct small controlled burns within the Naval Live Oaks (NLO) Area near Gulf Breeze, Florida. Longleaf pine areas of Naval Live Oaks depend on regular fire to maintain this ecosystem type, which is important for gopher tortoises and many other species.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Tom Wynne has pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit tax evasion, one count of tax evasion, and seven counts of money laundering. He faces a maximum penalty of 5 years in federal prison for each of the tax-related counts and up to 10 years in federal prison for each money laundering count.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ARCADIO DONES, also known as “Gordo," 45, of Hartford, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to fentanyl distribution and firearm possession offenses.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS - The EM Nevada Program shared its Operation Clean Desert learning materials with educators at the Nevada State Science Teachers Association conference held Feb. 1 at Rancho High School in Las Vegas. The free materials, including classroom activities, recount the history of the Nevada National...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Celebrate Black History Month at the Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site (NHS) and the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site (NHS). The National Park Service invites you to visit these historic sites in Northwest DC. Both sites are open on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays year-round. Admission is free.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - A local area man was sentenced to 10 years to the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADOC) Jan. 29, for sexual exploitation of a minor following an investigation lead by special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Cassandra Elaine Riggs, of Hedgesville, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 57 months incarceration for a firearms charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of New Castle, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal firearm and narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Sedalia, Missouri, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for tax evasion.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Hill City, South Dakota, woman convicted of Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person was sentenced by Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Federal authorities this morning arrested two defendants charged in a scheme that generated millions of dollars through an Orange County compound pharmacy that submitted fraudulent bills to the military’s TRICARE health plan and a labor union health plan for medically unnecessary compound cream prescriptions. Two other defendants named in a 48-count grand jury indictment are expected to surrender tomorrow.
