News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: CINCINNATI - The Cincinnati City Council President Pro Tem has been arrested and charged federally with honest services wire fraud, bribery and attempted extortion.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal jury has convicted an Indiana man of kidnapping a child from a Calumet City street as she walked home from school.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A California resident has been sentenced in federal court to 151 months’ imprisonment and five years’ supervised release on his conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: Used accounts and passwords of other employees to embezzle digital currency.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: DALLAS, TX - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Damage Prevention Council of Texas (DPC) signed an alliance designed to educate employers and employees in all 254 counties in Texas about the hazards associated with trenching and excavation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. -A former resident of Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to a term of imprisonment of 36 months to be followed by eight years of supervised release on his conviction of Possession of Material Depicting the Sexual Exploitation of Minors, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: SPRINGDALE, UT - Climbing routes on cliffs used by nesting peregrine falcons in Zion National Park will be temporarily closed beginning March 1, 2020. Closures are implemented due to the falcon’s sensitivity to disturbance during the nesting season. If disturbed, the nesting pair may abandon their nest...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: GUILTY PLEA - CHRISTOPHER JO STRINGER.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: Former Hopi Reservation Ranger Sentenced in Arizona on Sexual Assault Charges and Destruction of Evidence.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: Saguaro National Park News Release 20-09.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former Beaver County resident has been sentenced in federal court to 60 months’ imprisonment and 7 years’ supervised release on his conviction of distribution of images depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: West Glacier, Mont. - Glacier National Park is initiating public scoping for an environmental assessment (EA) on a plan to improve telecommunications in the park. The proposed action would correct deficiencies in radio, phone, and computer or data-based communications that support park operations and would also develop guidelines for connectivity in developed areas for non-governmental end-users.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Two men were recently sentenced to federal prison for committing multiple armed robberies across central Alabama, announced U.S. Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: MORGANTOWN, WV - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and PJ Dick Inc. have partnered to promote worker safety during the construction of Reynolds Hall - the future home to the new John Chambers College of Business and Economics at West Virginia University - in Morgantown, West Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BRIAN HERNDON, 45, of New Britain, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 84 months of imprisonment, followed by 10 years of supervised release, for possession child pornography and for violating the conditions of his supervised release from a prior federal conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A urologist was sentenced today to 71 months in federal prison for submitting fraudulent billings totaling more than $700,000 to Medicare for medically unnecessary and nonexistent treatments, sometimes billing for purported patient visits miles apart and occurring at the exact same time.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security today implemented the Inadmissibility on Public Charge Grounds final rule. Under the final rule, DHS will look at the factors required under the law by Congress, like an alien’s age, health, family status, assets, resources, and financial status, ...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: WISDOM, Mont., Feb. 24, 2020 – Today, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development State Director Charles Robison joined Rep. Greg Gianforte to announce USDA has invested $3.3 million in a high-speed broadband infrastructure project that will create or improve rural e-Connectivity for 142 homes, businesses, farms and ranches in Beaverhead County. This is one of many funding announcements in the first round of USDA’s ReConnect Pilot Program investments.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: A West Palm Beach tax return preparer was sentenced to 90 months in prison on Friday for aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns and theft of government funds, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Ariana Fajardo Orshan for the Southern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: A leader of a Guatemalan drug trafficking organization was sentenced today to 23 years in prison for his participation in an international drug trafficking conspiracy, announced Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Special Agent in Charge Wendy ...
