News from July 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: Portland, Maine: U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank and the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation division (CI) today 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 10, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A former National Football League (NFL) player pleaded guilty today to orchestrating a conspiracy to defraud the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) of over $300,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Michael Walker, 29, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of racketeering conspiracy and assault with a dangerous weapon in aid of racketeering, was sentenced to 120 months imprisonment by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: FBI Media Update: Man Charged with Robbing Albuquerque Bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A former National Football League (NFL) player pleaded guilty today to orchestrating a conspiracy to defraud the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) of over $300,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Douglass Gordon Doggett, 43, of Anchorage, has been charged with sexual exploitation of children, distribution of child pornography, receipt of child pornography, possession of child pornography, and illegal possession of a firearm as a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: Louisiana State University Receives $88,229 Grant for School Safety Project.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - Christopher Dobbins has pleaded guilty to the charge of reckless damage to a protected computer for deleting and modifying his former employer’s electronic shipping and other business records. Dobbins’s former employer is a medical packaging company that ships, among other things, personal protective equipment (“PPE") to healthcare providers. Dobbins’s conduct delayed the shipment of PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Wirt County woman pled guilty to a bank fraud charge today, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Melissa Evans, 49, of Palestine, pled guilty to one count of bank fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: Hōnaunau, HAWAI‘I - Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historic Park is increasing public access. The National Park Service (NPS) is working service wide with federal, state and local public health authorities to closely monitor the COVID-19 pandemic and using a phased approach to increase access on a park-by-park basis.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: Torrey, UT - Capitol Reef National Park is joining with neighboring land managers to implement fire restrictions in central Utah. Drought conditions are occurring in the region creating the potential for destructive fires.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: A Cedar Rapids man who escaped from a residential reentry center where he was ordered by a federal court was sentenced today to more than 2 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: For Conspiracy to Distribute Heroin. SOUTH BEND - Isaiah Whitmore, age 27, of South Bend, Indiana, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge Jon E. DeGuilio upon his plea of guilty to conspiracy to distribute heroin, announced United States Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II. Mr. Whitemore...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: Florida Man Charged with COVID Relief Fraud and Health Care Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Randolph man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for distributing fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: The Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Oklahoma today 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 10, 2020
News Release: GUILITY PLEA - FLOYD ALLEN HAWKINS.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - U.S. Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert and Michael J. De Palma, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), Miami Field Office, made the announcement today in an effort to remind taxpayers of the July 15 filing and payment deadline and warned against an increase in tax and COVID-19 scams.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that a grand jury indicted ASHTON J. RYAN, age 72, of Kenner; WILLIAM BURNELL, age 70, of Kenner; ROBERT BRAD CALLOWAY, age 60, of Metairie; and FRANK J. ADOLPH, age 60, of Kenner, for defrauding First NBC Bank, the New Orleans-based bank that failed in April 2017.
