News from June 2020
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: SANTA ANA, Calif. - A Chinese national was sentenced in absentia today to 37 months in federal prison for participating in a large-scale birth tourism scheme that engaged in visa fraud that allowed foreign nationals to come to the United States and give birth so their children would receive U.S. birthright citizenship.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao announced today that the Trump Administration will award nearly $800 million in airport safety and infrastructure grants through the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to 46 states, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Marshall Islands.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: Households May Receive Calls or In-Person Visits Over Next Several Months.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS - EM’s cleanup contractor for the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS), Navarro Research and Engineering, Inc. (Navarro), has earned 96 percent of the available fee for its most recent contract evaluation period, according to recently released information.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has upheld the convictions of Dr. David M. Pon on 20 counts of healthcare fraud. The Eleventh Circuit also rejected Pon’s challenges to his 121-month sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Thomas P. Barber has sentenced Ceveghnta Billvon Guyden, a/k/a “Chop," (42, St. Petersburg) to 17 years and 6 months in federal prison for conspiring to distribute cocaine. He had pleaded guilty on March 24, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Martin Nicholson, age 32, of Geddes, New York, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Hon. Thomas J. McAvoy to serve 15 years in federal prison for willfully causing the Sexual Exploitation of a Child, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, Thomas F. Relford, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and New York State Police Superintendent Keith Corlett.
By State Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Republican Leader Michael McCaul and Chairman Eliot Engel, and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman James Risch and Ranking Member Bob Menendez, released the following statement in support of diplomatic negotiations at the United Nations...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
Release: FOR INFORMATION AND ACTIONDA-2020-136/30/2020To: State and Territory Agricultural Regulatory Officials
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging seven defendants with conspiracy to commit bank fraud, 17 counts of bank fraud, and 8 counts of aggravated identity theft. The indictment was announced by Lawrence Keefe, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: HARTFORD, Conn. - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that Suburban Pharmacy LTC. Inc. (“Suburban Pharmacy"), a pharmacy located in West Hartford, Connecticut, has entered into a civil settlement with the federal government in which it will pay a penalty of $150,000 to resolve allegations that it violated civil provisions of the Controlled Substances Act.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: “Under President Trump’s leadership and direction from the Secretary, this proposed mine may reduce the vulnerability to disruption of critical mineral supplies. If the plan of operation is approved, you can rest assured knowing that development and production of critical minerals is done in an environmentally...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Ophthalmic Consultants, P.A. (Sarasota, FL) and Dr. Robert K. Snyder- collectively, Ophthalmic Consultants - has agreed to pay $4.8 million to resolve allegations of healthcare fraud. Specifically, the government alleged that Ophthalmic...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a federal criminal complaint against MATTHEW SCOTT WHITE, 31, charging him with arson. MATTHEW WHITE, who was arrested on June, 29, 2020, made his initial appearance earlier today before Magistrate Judge Hildy Bowbeer in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Mexican national has pleaded guilty in federal court to illegally possessing the firearm he used in a drive-by shooting.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Suffolk man was sentenced today to 30 years in prison for assault with intent to commit murder and discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence, stemming from a May 2019 shooting in the Great Dismal Swamp, a National Wildlife Refuge.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: Today the Finance Committee meets for its annual oversight hearing on the tax filing season. This year it also involves the COVID-19 response. I want to start on that issue, because when it comes to active cases, this country appears to be right back where it was in the spring. Tens of thousands of newly...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a federal criminal complaint against MOHAMED HUSSEIN ABDI, 19, charging him with arson. ABDI, who was arrested on June, 29, 2020, made his initial appearance earlier today before Magistrate Judge Hildy Bowbeer in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security, sent a letter to the Department of State, U.S. Agency for International Development, Department of Homeland Security, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Inc., USA was charged for conspiring to fix prices for generic drugs, the Department of Justice announced today.
