News from November 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - KalScott Engineering, Inc., and its president, Thomas Sherwood, and Vice President Suman Saripalli, will pay $672,352 to settle allegations that the company submitted false claims to obtain grant funds from the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer Programs, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said today.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 23, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey, Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney, Appropriations Committee’s Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee Chairman Mike Quigley, and Oversight and Reform Committee’s Government Operations...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 23, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued the following statement after the General Services Administration (GSA) Administrator Emily Murphy granted the Biden-Harris Transition Team access to critical services and facilities specified in the Presidential Transition Act of 1963, and millions of dollars in funding that Congress appropriated on Oct. 1, 2020, for transition activities under the Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - The United States Attorney’s Office announced, on Nov. 20, 2020, the indictment of 31 individuals related to a test score-fixing scheme at a United States Coast Guard exam center.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, Susan A. Gibson, and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Craig Carpenito announced a Paterson, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 70 months in prison for conspiring to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin, and distributing a quantity of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2020
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Three individuals are charged with travel within the United States with intent to deal firearms without a license in a complaint unsealed Thursday. The charges allege the defendants were involved in purchasing or attempting to purchase 27 firearms in Utah between Aug. 1, 2020, and Nov. 4, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2020
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020, charging Nathaniel O. Cox, 29, of Dallas, Texas, with Hobbs Act robbery, brandishing a Kel-Tec SUB-200 rifle during the commission of a crime of violence, and being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. Lawrence Keefe, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, and Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan announced the indictment today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2020
News Release: SEATTLE - A federal felon, arrested for violating his supervised release, faces new prison time following his guilty plea to drug and gun possession charges. Joshua Lobben, 32, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute and possession...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2020
News Release: The owner of a for-profit trade school has been charged with defrauding the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and student veterans, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 23, 2020
News Release: Dear Administrator Murphy: I am increasingly troubled by your continued delay in providing President-elect Biden, Vice President-elect Harris, and their staffs with the critical resources necessary to begin the transition for their incoming administration. Your agency’s mission is to ensure the federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2020
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart today announced that Quandale Turk, also known as “Q", 43, of Detroit, Michigan, entered a guilty plea to an indictment charging him with two counts of aiding and abetting the distribution of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2020
News Release: Faces mandatory minimum 15-year prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2020
News Release: HUNTINGTON W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart today announced that Vernon Eugene Mitchell, 31, of Detroit, Michigan, was sentenced to 111 months in federal prison for distribution of fentanyl and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2020
News Release: Florida and Tennessee Pain Clinic Owner Extradited from Italy to the United States to Face RICO Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2020
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - A Cincinnati man, Dontez Justice, 33, was sentenced to 192 months in federal prison on Friday, by U.S. District Judge David Bunning, for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Derrick Adams, of New Martinsville, West Virginia, has admitted to a heroin charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2020
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury in Greenbelt, Maryland, returned an indictment today charging Temple Hills tax return preparer Anita Fortune, age 56, with one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and thirty-nine counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2020
News Release: Former Co-Owner of Long Island Company Defrauded Medicare and Medicaid of Millions of Dollars for Medical Supplies Never Provided to Patients.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2020
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - A dual U.S.-Italian national was extradited from Italy to the United States on November 20. The U.S. Marshals Service effectuated the transportation of Luigi Palma from Lamezia Terme, Calabria to Knoxville, Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Lorenzo Clark, of Wheeling, West Virginia, has admitted to a drug charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
