News from March 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - United States Attorney Aaron L. Weisman joined Attorney General William P. Barr, FBI Director Christopher A. Wray, and Chief Postal Inspector Gary R. Barksdale today in announcing the largest coordinated sweep of elder fraud cases in history. This year, prosecutors charged more than 400...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - A record amount of freight was processed through the Hanford Site central warehouse in the last fiscal year, a key indicator of the increase in cleanup momentum across the site.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: DAYTON - Aaron Johnson, 32, and Timothy Banks, 22, caught the attention of law enforcement when they fell asleep in a U-Haul van with the engine running at a gas pump in Miami County.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-On Monday, March 2, 2020, Gary Peck, 44, of Clark County, Washington, was sentenced to 36 months in federal prison and 3 years’ supervised release for his role in a credit card fraud ring that operated in the greater Portland metropolitan area from February 2017 to February 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: TAOS, N.M. - Beginning March 4, and continuing for up to 30 days, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will be conducting prescribed burns in the Río Grande del Norte National Monument on the Guadalupe Mountains south of Cerro, N.M., and on Pot Mountain approximately 7 miles west of Cerro, N.M. Smoke may be visible from highways NM 522, US 285, and US 64.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: Geovanny Daniel Fuentes Ramires Allegedly Conspired with High-Ranking Honduran Politicians and Members of the Honduran National Police to Operate a Cocaine Lab in Honduras and Distribute Cocaine Using Air and Maritime Routes.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: Opening remarks, as prepared, of Subcommittee on Aviation Ranking Member Garret Graves (R-LA) from today’s hearing entitled, “The Airline Passenger Experience: What it Is and What It Can Be":
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: Overbilled the VA for Prescription Shoes and Lied to Win National Contract.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: Manzanar National Historic Site will sponsor an 8-week long Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) program this summer. Youths 15 to 18 are encouraged to apply, provided they do not reach their 19th birthday before July 31, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Trent Shores of Northern District of Oklahoma joined Attorney General William P. Barr in announcing today the Department of Justice’s National Nursing Home Initiative, which will coordinate and enhance civil and criminal efforts to pursue nursing homes that provide grossly substandard care to their residents.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced that three different defendants appeared in federal court during the past week to plead guilty to sex offenses involving minors.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander today sentenced Lisa Fore, age 48, of Hampstead, Maryland, to 45 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for mail fraud and aggravated identity theft related to a scheme to embezzle almost $1 million from her employers. Judge Hollander also scheduled a hearing on April 20, 2020, at 10:00 a.m. concerning the requested restitution.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: (LEWISTOWN, Mont.) - The Bureau of Land Management North Central District is planning five prescribed burn operations throughout the field season when fuel conditions and weather permit safe operations.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Vienna man pleaded guilty today to multiple charges related to his possession of images of child sexual abuse and attempted transfer of obscene material to minors.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - The mother of Syed Rizwan Farook, the male shooter in 2015 San Bernardino terrorist attack, has agreed to plead guilty to a federal criminal charge of intending to impede a federal criminal investigation by shredding a map her son generated in connection with the attack.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: Knoxville, Tenn. - U.S. Attorney J. Douglas Overbey joined Attorney General William P. Barr in announcing today the Department of Justice’s National Nursing Home Initiative, which will coordinate and enhance civil and criminal efforts to pursue nursing homes that provide grossly substandard care to their residents.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
Release: Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee and the State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on the Fiscal Year 2021 budget request for the United States Agency for International Development.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A federal judge in Santa Fe, New Mexico sentenced Sharon A. Moore, 64, of Albuquerque to 20 years in federal prison on March 2 for conspiracy and other financial crimes committed in connection with the operation of Ayudando Guardians, Inc., a non-profit corporation based in Albuquerque...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Glendale man who defrauded banks out of $2.1 million by conspiring to steal the identities of at least 11 dentists, opening sham dentist offices, and filing fraudulent claims to banks that offer lines of credit to dentists - was sentenced today to 37 months in federal prison.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: Committee Also Reports FERC Nominee to Full Senate
