News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: Anthony Bueno had already received 30 months in prison for bribing a federal official.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Federal grand juries in Delaware and Maryland have returned indictments charging alleged members of the racially motivated violent extremist group “The Base" with firearms and alien-related charges. Both federal indictments charge Brian Mark Lemley, Jr., age 33, of Elkton, Maryland...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander today sentenced William E. Tyler, age 56, of Fairfield, Pennsylvania, to a year and a day in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for the illegal transfer and possession of a machine gun. Tyler is the former Chief...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Jan. 28, 2020 - Nine persons have been indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with conspiracies to distribute heroin, fentanyl and cocaine in the Clarksville, Tennessee area, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee. The indictments, the last ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - A 31-year-old Houston resident has been sentenced for obtaining kilogram quantities of cocaine from Mexican suppliers and distributing them to various customers in the Houston area, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: Miami-Hard Rock Stadium near Miami is a “No Drone Zone" for Super Bowl LIV on Feb. 2, 2020. Drones also are prohibited around the Miami Beach Convention Center for the NFL Super Bowl Experience and Bayfront Park for Super Bowl Live during the days leading up to the event.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - The National Park Service (NPS) South Atlantic-Gulf Regional Director Robert A. Vogel today announced the selection of Nigel A. Fields as superintendent of Virgin Islands National Park and Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument, effective February 16. Fields has served as the acting superintendent of both park units since December 2018.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
Release: USDA Kicks Off Awareness Efforts in the United States
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - A United Kingdom man in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Enforcement (ICE) at the Baker County Detention Center in Macclenny, Florida, passed away Saturday evening at the facility.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: USDA Kicks Off Awareness Efforts in the United States WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 27, 2020 – Plants make the oxygen we breathe and give us 80 percent of the food we eat. But plants are under attack by invasive pests. These pests destroy up to 40 percent of the world’s food crops and cause $220 billion ...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, Jan. 27, 2020 – Today, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Sonny Perdue announced USDA will begin taking applications for the second round of $550 million in ReConnect Program loan and grant funding on January 31. These funds will enable the federal government to continue to partner ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen issued the following statement: “Sadly, in 2017, more than 1,000 Americans died every two weeks from fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances. In an effort to combat this deadly drug epidemic, DOJ’s Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in February 2018 issued ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: A currently imprisoned Florida businessman was sentenced to an additional 20 months in prison today for willfully omitting assets from a pre-sentencing financial disclosure form he provided to the Justice Department, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman and of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez for the Middle District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: A federal court in Columbus, Georgia, permanently barred Stacy Lee and Heather Lee from preparing tax returns for others and from owning, operating, or franchising a tax return preparation business, the Justice Department announced today. The court also ordered Stacy Lee and Heather Lee to close their tax return preparation stores. Stacy Lee and Heather Lee consented to the relief.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: Two West Virginian business owners were sentenced to prison today for conspiring to defraud the United States of employment and income taxes, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Michael B. Stuart for the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: Practice Fusion Inc. (Practice Fusion), a San Francisco-based health information technology developer, will pay $145 million to resolve criminal and civil investigations relating to its electronic health records (EHR) software, the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: Today at the Judicial Studies Institute (JSI) in San Juan, Puerto Rico, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor addressed 24 judges from El Salvador, Mexico, and Panama as part of a Department of Justice (DOJ) training program for the judiciaries of the Western Hemisphere. Justice Sotomayor stressed ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: Earlier today, U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr met with the Attorney General of Guatemala Maria Consuelo Porras Argueta in Washington, DC. They discussed ways to strengthen efforts to combat transnational organized crime and reduce illegal migration to the United States through increased cooperation ...
By Commerce News Now | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: Introduced by Tina Wei Smith, Executive Director of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
By Labor Gazette | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: SOLON, IA – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD), E & J Electric Inc. – based in Solon, Iowa, and operates as both E & J Electric Inc. & E & J Geothermal Inc. – has paid $126,420 in back wages to 25 current and former employees for violating the overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
