News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Strachans SA in Liquidation has pleaded guilty to conspiring with U.S. taxpayers and others to hide income and assets in offshore entities and bank accounts from the IRS, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: Threatened a Decorah Hospital That Triggered a Two-Day Lockdown.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: SOUTH BEND - Rapheal Seay, age 30, of Michigan City, Indiana was convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Bill Powell speaking at the Martinsburg U.S. Attorney Awards Ceremony.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM and its liquid waste contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) have developed a system that improves protection for workers who handle and dispose of contaminated laboratory waste created at the site’s (DWPF) during the vitrification process.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr., announced today that Harold James Jones, Jr., 49, of Lexington, was sentenced to ten years in federal prison after pleading guilty to possession with intent to distribute marijuana.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX - The Bureau of Land Management in cooperation with the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry will resume wild horse and burro adoptions and sales from the Wild Horse and Burro Training and Holding facility located in Florence, AZ, starting Oct. 26, 2020. These private...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: Daquan Dowdell, Terry Linen, and Deshawnte Waller Sentenced for RICO Convictions.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 30-year-old resident of Laredo has been indicted for allegedly importing 1.26 kilograms of meth into the United States, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Rojae A. Crosse, 23, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 5 months in prison for possessing a firearm as a felon. When imposing the sentence, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez today announced $1,095,330 in Department of Justice grants to improve services for crime victims in the Middle District of Florida. The grants, awarded by the Department’s Office of Justice Programs, are part of over $144 million distributed to enhance the district's response to victims of crime throughout the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - U.S. Attorney Robert M. Duncan, Jr., announced on Tuesday $1,892,160 in Department of Justice grants to improve services for crime victims in the Eastern District of Kentucky. The grants, awarded by the Department’s Office of Justice Programs, are part of over $144 million distributed to enhance the response to victims of crime throughout the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: Defendant Worked at General Services Administration.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: Gering, NE - Effective Sunday, October 11th, Scotts Bluff National Monument will begin winter operating hours. The Visitor Center is currently closed. The Summit Road will open at 8:30 a.m., close at 4:00 p.m. and all vehicles must be down by 4:30 p.m. Pedestrians and cyclists may use the Summit Road...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Andrew Medina, 29, of Niagara Falls, NY, with conspiring to possess with intent to distribute, and distributing, 500 grams or more of methamphetamine; attempting to possess...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, sent letters to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requesting information about the control over public health messaging and information exercised by non-experts in the White House.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Workers recently moved three enclosures that make up a system that will pretreat Hanford Site tank waste for processing to their permanent home onsite.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - Just as Oak Ridge crews have removed unneeded buildings at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP), they also have disposed of wastes stored there, a critical step to completing cleanup at the site.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: MONROE, La. - George M. “Trey" Fluitt, III, 53, of Monroe, made his initial appearance in United States District Court today, Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced. Fluitt, the owner and operator of Specialty Drug Testing, LLC (“Specialty") in Monroe, was indicted by a federal grand jury for paying bribes and kickbacks in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute, resulting in improper billings to Medicare of approximately $117 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS - United States District Judge Audrey G. Fleissig sentenced Shannon Rennee Bradley to 132 months in prison and ordered her to pay restitution jointly with the co-defendant in the amount of $8,500.
