News from March 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Cleophat Tanis, 52, of Naples, Florida, was sentenced today to one month in prison and seven months of home detention for his role in a scheme that caused the District of Columbia’s Department of Disability Services to be defrauded out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Tanis conspired...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Joseph Williams, age 31, of Watertown, New York, was sentenced on Wednesday to serve 160 months in prison for receiving and possessing child pornography, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, Susan Ferensic, Acting 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 DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man and a Mission, South Dakota, woman have been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine and Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Florida man appeared in court today on charges that he laundered funds related to a $30 million wire fraud scheme, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: “Thank you to our witnesses, who are appearing across two panels today.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes a $79,500 civil penalty against the King Salmon Airport in King Salmon, Alaska, for allegedly violating federal aircraft rescue and firefighting regulations.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, along with Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), introduced the Supporting Students in Response to Coronavirus Act to support students, teachers, and other school staff as the spread of coronavirus continues to cause school closures across the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN -"The Department of Justice is comprised of about 40 components that have a broad array of national security, law enforcement, and criminal justice system responsibilities. Therefore, a significant portion of the Department’s mission relates to the safety of human life and the protection of property.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Five felons appeared in federal court on gun charges this week, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A physician who operated private family practices in Perryopolis, Pennsylvania, and Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of unlawfully dispensing controlled substances and health care fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: “Thank you, Chairman Davis. “I appreciate your holding this hearing today on how to address child poverty in America. First, I want to acknowledge we are all thinking of those impacted by coronavirus across the country, and I want to thank the witnesses for still joining us today. “I’m glad this subcommittee...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Zoobia Shahnaz was sentenced to 13 years’ imprisonment by United States District Judge Joanna Seybert for providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization, specifically more than $150,000 to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), and attempting to travel to Syria to join ISIS. Shahnaz pleaded guilty in November 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Roque Gonzalez-Segura, 30, of Cozad, Nebraska, was sentenced today to 30 months in prison by United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. for being an alien in possession of a firearm. There is no parole in the federal system. In addition to his prison term, he will serve two years of supervised release following his release from prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Three Energy and Commerce Committee leaders wrote to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Joseph Simons today urging him to take immediate action to prevent deceptive advertising and dangerous misinformation related to the coronavirus global pandemic.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - As COVID-19 continues, Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH) praise the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s Keep Americans Connected pledge and the steps taken by individual private companies to make sure Americans have access to internet during this time.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: (DILLON, Mont.) - The Bureau of Land Management Dillon Field Office is planning several prescribed burns in Beaverhead and Madison counties during the upcoming spring months.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
Release: Washington, DC, March 13, 2020 - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue issued this statement following President Donald J. Trump’s Declaration of a National Emergency in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) -Yesterday, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, joined Senators Tina Smith (D-MN), Gary Peters (D-MI), Ron Wyden (D-OR), and Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in leading a number of their Democratic Senate colleagues in introducing the Free COVID-19 Testing Act, which would expand free tests to confirm coronavirus (COVID-19) infections.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney John H. Durham, Inspector in Charge Joseph W. Cronin of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service’s Boston Division and J. Russell George, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, today announced that, on March 11, 2020, a federal grand jury in New Haven returned an 11-count...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - Federal agents have arrested twenty-four individuals for their involvement in a large-scale fraud and money laundering operation that targeted citizens, corporations, and financial institutions throughout the United States. Business email compromise schemes, romance fraud scams, and retirement account scams, among other frauds, duped numerous victims into losing more than $30 million.
