News from March 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment in San Diego today charging the owner of a large residential compound in Vista with maintaining a drug-involved premises. The indictment seeks criminal forfeiture of the multi-acre property, which is located at 725 Poinsettia Avenue.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - John R. Lausch, Jr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, today joined Attorney General William P. Barr in announcing 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: OAKLAND - Erick and Kimberly Dominguez pleaded guilty in federal court today to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with their scheme to defraud the Social Security Administration (SSA), announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and SSA Office of Inspector General Special Agent in Charge Robb Stickley. The plea was received by the Honorable Haywood S. Gilliam Jr., U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges related to narcotics trafficking and firearms possession in connection with a large-scale investigation conducted by the Greater Pittsburgh Safe Streets Task Force, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and Ways and Means Committee member Congresswoman Suzan DelBene (D-WA) sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator, Seema Verma, calling on the agency to provide information regarding...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Jacob Dionne, 22, of Manchester, pleaded guilty in federal court to aiding and abetting the making of a false statement during the attempted acquisition of a firearm, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, met with Department of Homeland Security Acting Secretary Chad Wolf to discuss Michigan’s top homeland security needs. Peters released the following statement on the meeting...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: Seattle - A federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment charging former housing authority executive COVA CAMPBELL, aka Cova Hunter with four counts of wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran. According to the indictment, between March 2016 and July 2019, CAMPBELL defrauded the Pierce...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.2 million grant to Concho Valley Council of Governments (CVCOG) in San Angelo, Texas, to purchase a building to serve as CVCOG’s regional headquarters. The facility will provide disaster recovery and economic development services to the region. The EDA grant is expected to be matched with more than $550,000 in local investment.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Stephen C. Crawford, a former inmate at U.S. Penitentiary Hazelton, was indicted today on charges of manslaughter and assault regarding the death of another inmate, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: Former Virginia Tax Preparer Sentenced to Prison for Filing False Returns.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Several employees with Bechtel National, Inc., the EM Hanford Site Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant contractor, volunteered for the “Introduce a Girl to Engineering" event at the Richland Public Library in Washington during the recent Engineers Week. More than 100 students participated...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Abayomi Martin, 43, of Lake St. Louis, MO, pled guilty to one count of wire fraud relative to a scheme to defraud and obtain money from Baltimore Ravens player Brandon Carr. Martin appeared today before U.S. District Judge Catherine Perry who accepted his plea and set sentencing for June 3, 2020.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: Fort Scott National Historic Site is celebrating Women's History Month in March with weekly Saturday interpretive programs. "Though in 1861, the constitution of the newly created state of Kansas includes 'the rights of women to participate in school district elections’, it wasn’t until 1919 that Kansas...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - A startup crew recently operated a hoist that will be used to lift containers of waste turned into glass weighing about 7 tons each for the first time since opening an annex to the Hanford Site ’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) Low-Activity Waste (LAW) Facility last summer.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez of the Middle District of Florida joined Attorney General William P. Barr today in announcing the largest coordinated sweep of elder fraud cases in history. This year, prosecutors charged more than 400 defendants, far surpassing the 260 defendants charged in...
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 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 State Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today met with a group of members and speakers of parliament from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland to discuss the importance of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and continued transatlantic collaboration to counter malign activities from Russia and China.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Michael Jones, 47, of Manchester, pleaded guilty in federal court to drug trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
