News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: Employee stole over $770,000 from Indianapolis-Based Business.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: (BILLINGS, Mont.) -The Bureau of Land Management Billings Field Office will conduct prescribed burns in Musselshell and Yellowstone Counties this spring when fuel and weather permit safe operations.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: Dear Secretary Azar and Acting Secretary Wolf...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: SODA SPRINGS, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management Idaho Falls District and Caribou-Targhee National Forest today released a Final Environmental Impact Statement analyzing different alternatives for expanding the phosphate mine at Smoky Canyon, east of Soda Springs. The agencies are seeking public input...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - Utility Workers Union of America, Local 369 has rerun its 2017 election of officers under the supervision of the Department of Labor as part as a settlement resolving allegations that Local 369 failed to guarantee its members the right to vote.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Jose Mendoza, 32, and Natalie Mendoza, 35, of Medanales, New Mexico, Ryan Rodriguez, 27, of Chamita, New Mexico, Andrea Rodriguez, 28, and Edvardo Carlson, 39, of Espanola, New Mexico, and Bridget Archuleta, 31, of San Juan Pueblo, New Mexico appeared in federal court today for arraignment...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -This week, Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security, held a hearing and received testimony from U.S. servicemembers who allege they were exposed to chemical and radiological hazards when they were deployed to Karshi-Khanabad (K2) Air Base in Uzbekistan after Sept. 11, 2001.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Pennsylvania resident has been charged for allegedly kidnapping and killing a woman whom he led to believe was his girlfriend, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada and Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse for the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: Justice Department Settles Disability-Based Housing Discrimination Lawsuits with Owners and Developers of 11 Apartment Complexes in Puerto Rico.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: (BELLE FOURCHE, S.D.) - The Bureau of Land Management will be conducting prescribed burns this spring on the Fort Meade Recreation Area near Sturgis as soon as conditions permit.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Malcolm Cunningham, 24, of Washington, D.C. was sentenced today by Judge Ronna Beck to 18 years’ incarceration, suspending all but 15 years of incarceration for the murder of his great grandmother’s common-law-husband, David Norwood, U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Shea announced. Cunningham previously pled guilty to one count of second degree murder while armed with a sentencing range of 12 to 18 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced today that pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis U.S., LLC (“Sanofi"), has agreed to pay $11.85 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by paying kickbacks to Medicare patients through a purportedly independent charitable foundation, The Assistance Fund (“TAF").
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A white supremacist and former member of the Atomwaffen Division was sentenced today to one year in prison for possessing firearms while being an unlawful drug user and making a false statement in order to illegally purchase a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Custodio Ibarra Nunez, 37, of Merced, was arrested pursuant to a federal arrest warrant today. On Jan. 30, 2020,a federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment against Nunez, charging him with conspiracy to cultivate marijuana, marijuana cultivation, and depredation of public lands in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - A San Bernardino County man who worked as a bankruptcy petition preparer (BPP) was arrested today on federal criminal charges that allege he acted as an unlicensed attorney in bankruptcy cases, charged fees well over those permitted by law and then repeatedly lied to the United States Bankruptcy Court.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: FARMINGTON, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management Farmington Field Office, in coordination with the Bureau of Indian Affairs Navajo Regional Office, has prepared a joint Draft Resource Management Plan Amendment (RMPA) and Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to analyze resource management issues for lands in San Juan, Rio Arriba, McKinley, and Sandoval counties, including lands surrounding the Chaco Culture National Historical Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: Portland, Maine: An Auburn man was convicted yesterday following a two-day jury trial of possessing a firearm after being convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: FREMONT, NE - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Interstate Commodities - based in Troy, New York - for grain handling violations after an employee was fatally engulfed in a grain bin at the company's Fremont, Nebraska, facility in September 2019. The company faces $228,592 in penalties, and has been placed in OSHA's Severe Violator Enforcement Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA - Three Tampa Bay-area men entered guilty pleas yesterday to defrauding.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES -- On Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Riverside Office, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department and the Inland Regional Narcotics Enforcement Team (IRNET) conducted a joint operation targeting a local drug trafficking organization. During the...
