News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: Defendant was converting funds for personal care patients to his personal use.
By State Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairmen and ranking members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, respectively, today released the following statement after holding an all-senator briefing with top administration health officials regarding the novel coronavirus outbreak that was first detected in Wuhan, China:
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: A 12-count indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Daniel E. Russo, a pharmacist, with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute oxycodone, distribution and possession of oxycodone, distribution of oxycodone by a pharmacist without legitimate prescription...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky. - A Beattyville, Kentucky, man, Howard Kirk Hall, 57, who previously pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, was sentenced to 100 months in federal prison on Thursday, by U.S. District Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: WINNEMUCCA, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management is seeking comments on the Environmental Impact Statement and Resource Management Plan Amendment, analyzing the potential impacts of approving the proposed Lithium Nevada Corporation, Thacker Pass Project Mining and further Exploration Plans of Operations...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA- A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 30 months’ imprisonment, three years’ supervised release, and to pay restitution to the victim bank on his bank robbery conviction, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX - During an investigation into the drug trafficking activities of 24-year old Marcelino Ontiveros Quintero, DEA Task Force agents and detectives seized approximately 169,150 lethal fentanyl pills from Quintero and his associate, one of the largest fentanyl pill seizures in the state.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: A Mesquite educator was sentenced today to 14 years in federal prison for child exploitation, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: This January, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is pleased to announce a new industry partnership between the DHS Blue Campaign – the unified voice for DHS’s efforts to combat human trafficking – and American Airlines.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C., Jan. 23, 2020) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today praised the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for defining the Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule with the Navigable Waters Protection Rule: “President Trump is restoring the rule of law and empowering Americans ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that it is requiring ZF Friedrichshafen AG (ZF) and WABCO Holdings Inc. (WABCO) to divest WABCO’s North American steering components business, R.H. Sheppard Co. Inc., as well as other related WABCO assets, in order for ZF to proceed with its proposed acquisition ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: An Ecuadorian businessman living in Miami, Florida, pleaded guilty today in connection with a $4.4 million bribery and money laundering scheme that funneled bribes to public officials of Empresa Pública de Hidrocarburos del Ecuador (PetroEcuador), the state-owned and state-controlled oil company of Ecuador, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Mustafa al-Imam, a 47-year-old Libyan national, was sentenced today to 236 months in prison on federal terrorism charges and other offenses stemming from the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack on the U.S. Special Mission and CIA Annex in Benghazi, Libya. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and U.S. government personnel Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods, and Glen Doherty died in the attack.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Three individuals were sentenced to prison for their roles in an $11 million telemarketing scheme that defrauded primarily elderly victims in the United States from call centers in Costa Rica.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Maria Christina “Meta” Ullings, the former senior vice president of cargo sales and marketing for Martinair N.V. (Martinair Cargo) and a Dutch national, pleaded guilty for her role in a long-running air cargo price-fixing conspiracy, the Department of Justice announced. Ullings’ extradition is the second ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: A 12-count indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Daniel E. Russo, a pharmacist, with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute oxycodone, distribution and possession of oxycodone, distribution of oxycodone by a pharmacist without legitimate prescription ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: A Chicago-area resident was arrested today on a federal grand jury indictment charging him with mail fraud, submitting false claims to the United States for tax refunds, and aggravated identity theft, announced Principle Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: A Russian national pleaded guilty today to charges related to his operation of two websites devoted to the facilitation of payment card fraud, computer hacking and other crimes.
By Commerce News Now | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: On Jan. 21, 2020, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced an affirmative preliminary antidumping duty (AD) circumvention ruling involving imports of unfinished R-32/R-125 of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) from China that are further processed in the U.S., and are circumventing the existing AD order on imports of HFC blends (R–404A, R-407A, R–407C, R–410A, and R–507A) from China.
By Commerce News Now | Jan 23, 2020
The US Commerce Department published a five page rule on Jan. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
