News from July 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Timothy J. Bush, 49, of Fort Edward, New York, appeared on July 23, 2020 in federal court on charges that he attempted to patronize a child under the age of 14 for a commercial sex act, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and Thomas F. Relford, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
By DOL Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: House Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA), Senate Health Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA), House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), and Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today released the following statement on the White House’s call for Congress to pass legislation ending the practice of surprise medical billing...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Hurley Dewayne Pitts, age 46, of Tahlequah, Oklahoma entered a guilty plea to Felon In Possession Of Firearm & Ammunition, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1), 924(a)(2)...
By State Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
Release: Overview. Prior to World War II (WWII), the Jewish community in the territory comprising present-day Republic of North Macedonia enjoyed significant levels of autonomy and religious freedom and prospered in commerce, medicine, and government. According to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, there were ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An employee of a public university in New Jersey today admitted his role in a scheme to defraud public and private health benefits programs of at least $5.3 million for the billing of medically unnecessary compounded prescriptions, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: Winnemucca, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today released a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) analyzing the potential impacts of the proposed Thacker Pass Lithium Project in Humboldt County, Nevada. If approved, the project would develop lithium reserves within the Thacker Pass deposit, the largest and highest-grade known sedimentary deposit of this critical mineral in the United States, and the second largest in the world.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Scott Lampert, the Special Agent in Charge for the New York Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS-OIG"), announced today the entry of two settlements in a Medicaid...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man pled guilty today to federal charges related to three drug transactions, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Levi Kennith Carter, 30, pled guilty to two counts of distribution of heroin, fentanyl and methamphetamine, and one count of distribution of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury in Maryland has indicted four MS-13 gang members today on federal charges in connection with their MS-13 gang activities, specifically for conspiracy to destroy and conceal evidence in connection with a murder. Charged in the three-count indictment are Jose...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform; Senator Gary Peters, the Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee; Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, the Chairman on the Subcommittee on Government Operations; and Senator...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Drug Enforcement Administration urges its DEA-registered practitioners and members of the public to be cautious of telephone calls by scammers posing as DEA employees attempting to defraud and extort victims. The schemers call the victims, spoofing DEA phone numbers in order to appear...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Eight Pittsburgh-area residents have been charged in six separate indictments for criminal activity perpetuated during a civil disorder in the City of Pittsburgh, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today. The alleged criminal acts occurred while Pittsburgh Police officers were...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: The Census Bureau today released new data from the experimental Household Pulse Survey. The Household Pulse Survey is the result of an effort by the Census Bureau and other federal statistical agencies to document temporal trends in how individuals are experiencing business curtailment and closures, stay-at-home orders, school closures, changes in the availability of consumer goods and consumer patterns, and other abrupt and significant changes to American life.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By State Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
Release: Overview. Before World War II, Italy had a population of about 50,000 Jews, of whom approximately 8,000 were killed in the Holocaust. According the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, approximately 28,000 Jews live in the country today. Italian Jews, including those who had converted to Catholicism ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - Atlanta City Councilman Antonio Brown has been indicted on multiple fraud charges in connection with Brown’s attempts to defraud several financial institutions by taking out loans and making credit card purchases - and then falsely claiming that he was the victim of identity theft and was not responsible for the charges or repaying the loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Kurtis Walter, age 27, of Troy, New York, was sentenced today to serve 78 months in prison for distribution and receipt of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, and Thomas F. Relford, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Albany Field Office.
By State Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
Release: Overview. There were approximately 100 Jews in Cyprus in the early 20th century. After the rise of Nazism in 1933, hundreds of European Jews escaped to Cyprus, which was a British colony at the time. Axis forces never attempted to take over the island. Between August 1946 and January 1949, the British ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Steven Williams, age 48, of York, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on July 28, 2020, to 30 months’ imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release, by Chief District Court Judge John E. Jones, III, for stealing government property and conspiring to commit that offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA - Lucas Isaiah Newton-Grant, a California man who previously lived in the City of Charlottesville, was arrested yesterday in California and charged with threatening to bomb Charlottesville City School buildings. United States Attorney Thomas T. Cullen and David W. Archey, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Richmond Division made the announcement.
