News from July 2020
By DOL Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: MOULTRIE, GA - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Southern Wood Components LLC - based in Moultrie, Georgia - for exposing employees to hazardous energy and caught-by hazards after an employee fatality at the company's saw mill. The wood product manufacturer faces $55,326 in penalties.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Mississippi businessman pleaded guilty Thursday for his role in a multi-million dollar scheme to defraud TRICARE, the health care benefit program serving U.S. military, veterans, and their respective family members, as well as private health care benefit programs, by paying kickbacks to...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Gary Peters, Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, joined his colleagues in calling on the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to share information on premium and retention pay policies for medical employees working on the front lines...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Maryland Darknet vendor and a Nebraska pharmacist pleaded guilty today to charges related to a conspiracy to use explosives to firebomb and destroy a competitor pharmacy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Springfield man was indicted yesterday with racketeering offenses relating to the promotion of commercial sex.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: KREMMLING, Colo. - Stage 1 fire restrictions begin Friday, July 10 for Bureau of Land Management administered lands in Jackson County, Colorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: Ten defendants were indicted this week on felony charges, including federal firearms violations, under the umbrella of the Department of Justice’s Project Guardian.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: FILLMORE, Utah - On July 15, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Fillmore Field Office will begin gather operations to remove excess wild horses from within and outside of the Swasey Herd Management Area (HMA) in Millard and Juab counties. The gather is expected to last approximately sixteen days.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS - The former president of Custom Carbon Processing, Inc. was sentenced today to 18 months in prison, three years of supervised release and fined $50,000 for his actions related to an explosion that injured three workers at the company’s oil processing plant in Wibaux, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
Release: I’m pleased to present the 2021 appropriations bill written by our Legislative Branch subcommittee. I very much appreciate the hard work and collegial attitude of all the members of this subcommittee, and particularly the contributions and cooperation of our Ranking Member Ms. Herrera-Beutler, it is a pleasure working with you.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: JACKSONVILLE, Florida - A Florida man was charged counts of sex trafficking children and four counts of using a cellular phone to entice children to engage in unlawful sex acts in a grand jury indictment Thursday. This case was investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Clay County Sheriff’s Office, and the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) released the following statement after the Department of Health...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: Ten defendants were indicted this week on felony charges, including federal firearms violations, under the umbrella of the Department of Justice’s Project Guardian.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: CARSON CITY, Nev. - The Bureau of Reclamation proposes to authorize long-term federal irrigation facility use in the Newlands Project on a new Truckee Canal site to divert, measure and convey municipal surface water to the City of Fernley.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Ion Antonescu, 36, of Anaheim, California and Ramona Ghiocel, 37, of Bueno Park, California were sentenced in federal court in Albuquerque on July 9 for access device fraud offenses. Antonescu received a sentence of 30 months in prison and Ghiocel received a sentence of 24 months in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: A Mississippi businessman pleaded guilty Thursday for his role in a multi-million dollar scheme to defraud TRICARE, the health care benefit program serving U.S. military, veterans, and their respective family members, as well as private health care benefit programs, by paying kickbacks to practitioners...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: (BUTTE, Mont.) - The Bureau of Land Management is offering a reward of up to $500 for information leading to the identification, arrest and conviction of those responsible for dumping more than 30 pails of oil on BLM-managed public land near Hauser Lake.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Jared Bishop Heisey, age 30, of Etters, Pennsylvania, was indicted on July 1, 2020, for abusive sexual contact without consent and simple assault.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that JOSHUA JENKINS, 27, of Hartford, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Jeffrey A. Meyer to distributing fentanyl and crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Nihad Rosic, aka Yahya Abuayesha Mudzahid, 32, of Utica, New York, appeared today before U.S. District Judge Catherine D. Perry. Rosic was sentenced to 96 months in prison for conspiring to provide material support to terrorists and providing material support to terrorists. Rosic was remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshal to begin his sentence immediately.
