News from July 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore, of the Southern District of Alabama, announces that Alabama Orthopaedic Clinic, P.C. (AOC) and Dr. Russell A. Hudgens, have agreed to pay $74,000 to settle civil allegations that they violated the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). AOC, an orthopaedic clinic located in Mobile, Alabama, also operated a Workers’ Compensation Pharmacy (Pharmacy), where Dr. Hudgens served as the registrant with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Nestor Cordero-Hernandez, age 43, of Fort Ann, New York, was sentenced today to 87 months in prison for conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute more than 500 grams of cocaine and more than 50 grams of methamphetamine.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 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 Region 10 League for Economic Assistance and Planning, Montrose, Colorado, to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2020
News Release: The Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of North Carolina reminded taxpayers of the July 15 filing and payment deadline and warned against an increase in tax and COVID-19 scams.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Nascent Devices, Inc. (Nascent) has agreed to pay the United States $70,000 to resolve potential liability under the False Claims Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that BRADLEY EDWARD CORLEY, age 45, a resident of Marrero, Louisiana, was charged July 10, 2020 in a two-count Indictment with receipt and possession of images and videos depicting the sexual exploitation of children, including children as young...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2020
News Release: A man who illegally returned to the United States after being deported two times was sentenced today to eight months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that WILLIAM S. PALMIERI, 56, of Bethany, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to three years of probation, the first six months of which Palmieri must serve in home confinement, for failing to pay all of the federal income taxes he owed over several years. Judge Underhill also ordered Palmieri to perform 150 hours of community service.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2020
News Release: Defendant has also been charged in Hennepin County with second-degree intentional murder and second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 13, 2020
News Release: Last night, Sunday, July 12, park rangers were notified that a 55-year-old man from Estes Park, Colorado, had taken a 75-foot tumbling fall below the summit of McHenry Peak on the west face at an elevation of 12,900 feet. He was traveling from the summit to Stone Man Pass when he fell. He was traveling from the summit to Stone Man Pass when he fell. He received numerous serious injuries. Park rangers reached him early this morning and provided advanced medical care.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 13, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) is offering to the community Chicago’s first ERO Citizens Academy, scheduled to begin Sept. 15.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 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 Southeast Idaho Council of Governments, Inc., Pocatello, Idaho, to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2020
News Release: MEMPHIS, TN - Antonio Buntyn, 45, has been sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a three-count indictment charging Priscilla Vogelbacher, 37, of Oregon, Ohio, with one count of enticement of a minor and two counts of interstate travel with the intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2020
News Release: Fugitive Taken Into Custody at Miami InternationaI Airport.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 13, 2020
News Release: MIAMI - A 51-year-old unlawfully present Mexican national subject to mandatory detention under federal law in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Glades County Detention Center (GCDC) in Florida died Sunday afternoon at a Palm Beach County hospital, where he had been receiving treatment for several weeks. The preliminary cause of death is undetermined at this time.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 13, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON - Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Chair of the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Appropriations Committee's markup of the fiscal year 2021 Labor-HHS-Education bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams announced today that a Texas man has been charged with assaulting a U.S. Marshals Service deputy with a construction hammer during weekend protests at the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse in downtown Portland.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 12, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Last week, the U.S. Department of Labor took a range of actions to aid American workers and employers as our nation combats the coronavirus pandemic.
By Labor Gazette | Jul 12, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Last week, the U.S. Department of Labor took a range of actions to aid American workers and employers as our nation combats the coronavirus pandemic.
