News from July 2020
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: BALTIMORE - A man arrested for sexual abuse of a minor was released from police custody in Montgomery County, Maryland, June 23, despite a request from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers to hold him so he could be arrested also for violating U.S. immigration laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: Defendants Allegedly Facilitated $28 Million in Bribes Paid from Odebrecht S.A. to the Official.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: International Operation Targeting Individuals Sexually Abusing Children and Distributing Child Sexual Abuse Materials.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Gary Peters (MI), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Debbie Stabenow (MI) requested that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) explain why a company called Fillakit...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn, New York charging Luis Enrique Martinelli Linares (Luis Martinelli Linares) and Ricardo Alberto Martinelli Linares (Ricardo Martinelli Linares), for their roles in a massive bribery and money laundering scheme involving Odebrecht S.A.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House Appropriations Committee today released the draft fiscal year 2021 Legislative Branch funding bill, which will be considered in subcommittee tomorrow. The legislation funds the Legislative Branch of the U.S. government, including the U.S. House of Representatives, Congressional Budget Office, and Capitol Police.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: Two Defendants Charged for Their Role in Bribery and Money Laundering Scheme Involving Former High-Ranking Government Official in Panama.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated five Oregon counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Clackamas, Deschutes, Multnomah, Washington, and Yamhill counties who suffered losses due to recent drought, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies today approved by voice vote its fiscal year 2021 bill. Total discretionary funding in the legislation is $23.98 billion, an increase of $487 million above the FY 2020 enacted level.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: Four former supervisory correctional officers at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana - Daniel Davis (43), Scotty Kennedy (52), John Sanders (34), and James Savoy Jr. (42) - were sentenced on July 2, for their roles in assaulting an inmate who was handcuffed, shackled, and not resisting...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
Release: Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, delivered the following remarks at the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee's markup of its fiscal year 2021 bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: Stephen Belongia Named Special Agent in Charge of the Buffalo Field Office.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, CO. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today announced the appointment of two career professionals to the agency’s senior law enforcement leadership team based out of the new Headquarters in Grand Junction, CO. Shannon Tokos has been named the Deputy Director of the BLM Office of Law Enforcement and Security (OLES) and Brian Richards as the BLM’s Law Enforcement Supervisory Criminal Investigator and the Bureau’s Policy and Programs Office Chief.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Wednesday, July 1, 2020, the U.S. District Court entered a civil Consent Judgment against defendants William J. Cruz and Medscan, P.S.C. whereby the defendants agreed to pay one million dollars to the United States resulting from an investigation conducted by the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General and the FBI, announced U.S. Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, W. Stephen Muldrow.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - Bibi Tasleyma Sattar, D.O., and her practice, Oakmont Wellness Center, PA, (collectively, “Dr. Sattar") have agreed to pay $210,000 to resolve False Claims Act allegations involving accepting payments for patient referrals in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute, as well as claims otherwise improperly billed to federal healthcare programs for laboratory testing, announced Eastern District of Texas U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, woman convicted of Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person was sentenced on July 6, 2020, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - A Princeton man was sentenced to federal prison for his participation in a drug trafficking organization (DTO) operating between New York and Mercer County, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. David Simmons, 51, of Princeton, was sentenced to 24 months in prison, to be followed...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) announced today the selection of The George Washington University to lead a new Center of Excellence (COE) that will deliver a pilot Master of Business Administration program focused on security technology...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that TELEMAQUE LAVIDAS, an entrepreneur and pharmaceutical company executive, was sentenced on July 2 to one year and one day in prison for his role in an international insider trading scheme. LAVIDAS was convicted...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn today announced that Kristin Martin, age 39, of Littleton, Colorado, was sentenced to serve 33 months in federal prison followed by 3 years of supervised release for mail fraud and tax evasion related to selling fraudulently obtained items on eBay. Martin was also ordered to pay $872,337.68 in restitution for the fraud to her former employer and $161,864 to the IRS for the tax evasion.
