News from July 2020
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 20, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - Two Ukrainian nationals pleaded guilty Friday to conspiracy to smuggle and distribute counterfeit cancer and hepatitis drugs into the United States.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 20, 2020
News Release: Dear Mr. Horowitz and Mr. Cuffari...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2020
News Release: Seattle ‑ The U.S. Department of Justice and Sterling Healthcare Opco, LLC d/b/a/Cordant Health Solutions (Cordant), today settled a civil suit alleging Cordant illegally paid kickbacks to generate urine testing business from government insured consumers. Cordant has agreed to pay various government...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 20, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation proposes an amendment to Santa Barbara County Water Agency Contract No. I75r-1802R, dated April 14, 1996, to add renewal language and extend the contract term up to three years.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2020
News Release: Chemicals manufactured or distributed in Rhode Island were earmarked to be exported to a company with ties to the Chinese military.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 20, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released a proposal to significantly expand the availability of telehealth services in Medicare on a permanent basis. The bill comes as the use of telehealth services has greatly increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, offering a safe option for at-risk populations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Matthew Holland, 28 of Newark, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with production, receipt, and possession of child pornography, and online enticement of a minor. The charges carry a minimum penalty of 15 years in prison, a maximum penalty of life, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Hassan Raheem, age 43, of Uniondale, New York, was sentenced today to 106 months in prison for possessing and intending to distribute crack cocaine, and possessing a loaded firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2020
News Release: Madison, Wis. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Dao Thao, 40, Saint Paul, Minnesota, was sentenced on July 17 by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to five years in federal prison for distributing methamphetamine. Thao pleaded guilty to this charge on March 2, 2020.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 20, 2020
Release: INDIANAPOLIS - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers at an Indianapolis International Airport (IND) checkpoint stopped a male passenger from bringing a disassembled firearm through a security checkpoint yesterday. Airport police confiscated the firearm and ammo and cited the man, who resides in Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty plea of WAYNE ROBERT DAHL, JR., 51, to one count of mail fraud. DAHL entered his guilty plea today before Chief Judge John R. Tunheim in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Holyoke man was sentenced on Friday, July 17, in federal court in Springfield for drug possession and distribution charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - Last week, Jaime Rene Calderon, 28, of Prescott, Arizona, was sentenced by United States District Judge Steven P. Logan to three concurrent terms of 150 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release. In December 2019, a federal jury found Calderon guilty of three counts of aiding and abetting the sale of heroin on three separate occasions.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 20, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) issued a request for information (RFI) to understand workforce development needs within the high-performance materials supply chain.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 20, 2020
News Release: On June 11, 2020, the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) announced over $33 million in funding for 82 projects supported by the Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF). The Office of Electricity contributed nearly $1.3 million in support of seven of these projects.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams announced today that Matthew Hogan Peters, 36, of Dana Point, California, has been charged by superseding information with healthcare fraud and tax evasion.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 20, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $400,000 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Southern Tier East Regional Planning Development Board, Binghamton, New York, to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2020
News Release: Miami, Fl. - Today, U.S. District Judge Darrin P. Gayles, sentenced 44-year-old Lester Lavin to 51 months in federal prison for his role in a computer fraud scheme that he and his co-workers created and used to steal over $5 million from their casino employer, Miccosukee Indian Gaming. Judge Gayles also sentenced Lavin’s girlfriend, Anisleydi Vergel Hermida, 31, of Miami Beach, to six months’ imprisonment for helping Lavin launder his cut of the stolen money.
By State Newswire | Jul 20, 2020
News Release: Moscow and Beijing are callously restricting humanitarian aid to Syria’s suffering civilians as part of their campaign to prop up Bashar al-Assad.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2020
News Release: Jackson, TN - Nakeia Shakiece Smith, 27, has been sentenced to federal prison for 18 months for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, cocaine base and cocaine. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the sentence today.
