News from July 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Washington tech executive was taken into custody today and charged with fraudulently seeking over $5.5 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans and laundering the proceeds, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian C. Rabbitt at of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: WEST GLACIER, Mont. [July 23, 2020] - Glacier National Park has identified the victim of a climbing accident in the Logan Pass area on the evening of Tuesday, July 21 as 20-year-old Josh Yarrow of Wichita, Kansas. Yarrow was spending the summer working for a local business in the West Glacier area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: LEXINGTON, KY- A Lexington, Kentucky, woman, Paige Cagle, 26, was sentenced in federal court on Thursday to 300 months in prison, by U.S. District Judge Karen Caldwell, after previously admitting using a minor to engage in explicit conduct for the purpose of producing child pornography.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, the Department of Homeland Security announced it will lift its ban on the Trusted Traveler Program (TTP) for New York residents. After DHS cut off the TTP program in February, Governor Andrew Cuomo and the state legislature amended the law that prevents sharing of information to federal law enforcement officers who are working to protect the citizens of New York and the American people.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: The Bottom Line: As they have for the past 54 straight days, violent anarchists continue to riot on the streets of Portland as federal law enforcement officers work diligently and honorably to enforce federal law by defending federal property and the lives of their fellow officers.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: USDA is expanding access to innovative online food purchase program (Washington, D.C., July 23, 2020) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced approval of a request from Arkansas and Hawaii to provide online purchasing of food to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) households. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: A former U.S. Congressman was charged Tuesday in an indictment unsealed today, with conspiring to violate voting rights by fraudulently stuffing the ballot boxes for specific candidates in the 2014, 2015, and 2016 primary elections, bribery of an election official, falsification of records, voting more than once in federal elections, and obstruction of justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON – A federal grand jury in Charlotte, North Carolina returned an indictment yesterday, charging three Charlotte tax preparers with conspiring to defraud the United States, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and First Assistant U.S. Attorney William Stetzer for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that it reached a settlement with Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (Arnold & Porter), a national law firm, and Law Resources Inc. (Law Resources), a Washington, D.C.-based legal staffing company, resolving claims that the companies engaged in hiring discrimination based on citizenship status.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Offices for the Northern, Middle, and Southern Districts of Alabama today concluded that there is reasonable cause to believe that the conditions at Alabama’s prisons for men violate the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution. Specifically, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: Four individuals have recently been charged with visa fraud in connection with a scheme to lie about their status as members of the People’s Republic of China’s military forces, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), while in the United States conducting research. Three of these individuals have been arrested and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is seeking the fourth who is a fugitive from justice currently being harbored at the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: The Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York today filed a civil complaint and proposed settlement agreement to resolve claims that Bank of America, N.A. (Bank) engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination on the basis of disability, in violation of the Fair Housing Act. The settlement agreement is subject to approval by the federal district court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: The United States Department of Justice announced today that it will not challenge proposed efforts by Eli Lilly and Company, AbCellera Biologics, Amgen, AstraZeneca, Genentech, and GlaxoSmithKline (together, the Requesting Parties) to share information about manufacturing facilities and other information that could enable them to expedite the production of monoclonal antibody treatments that are determined to be safe and effective to treat COVID-19.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: A Washington tech executive was taken into custody today and charged with fraudulently seeking over $5.5 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans and laundering the proceeds, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian C. Rabbitt at of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: Hasher Jallal Taheb, 23, of Cumming, Georgia, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for attempting an attack upon the White House. Taheb also planned attacks on the Statue of Liberty, Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, and a synagogue.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: Taro Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. (Taro U.S.A.) has been charged for conspiring to fix prices, allocate customers, and rig bids for generic drugs, the Department of Justice announced today. A two-count felony charge was filed today in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: This week, the President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice held its final hearings, receiving testimony on respect for law enforcement and the rule of law. The hearings were conducted via teleconference and featured expert witnesses who provided testimony and answered questions from the commissioners.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: The United States has filed a complaint to forfeit $2,372,793, announced the Department of Justice.
By Fed Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday broadened the set of firms eligible to transact with and provide services in three emergency lending facilities. Encouraging a broader range of agents for the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF) and counterparties for the Commercial Paper Funding Facility (CPFF) and Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility (SMCCF) will increase the Federal Reserve's operational capacity and insight into the respective markets.
By DOE Gazette | Jul 23, 2020
The US Energy Department published a two page proposed rule on July 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
