News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: CINCINNATI - Cin-Air LP pleaded guilty and was sentenced in U.S. District Court today for violating the Clean Water Act by causing and mishandling a jet fuel leak in March 2019 at Lunken Airport.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) and Education and Labor Committee Chairman Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (VA-03) sent a letter to Department of Labor (DOL) Secretary Scalia and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Azar demanding increased protections for our nation’s frontline workers as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: Estolides may not be a household name yet, but Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and their industry partners are working on it.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that physical therapist HATEM BEHIRY was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Lorna G. Schofield to 24 months in prison for his participation in a $30 million scheme to defraud Medicare and the New York...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ARNO SMITH, 57, of Hartford, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to a federal robbery offense connected to a carjacking in 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - Two former New Jersey state public education system employees were sentenced today to prison terms for defrauding New Jersey state health benefits programs by submitting fraudulent claims for medically unnecessary compounded prescriptions, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: Jersey/Swiss Financial Services Firm Admits to Conspiring with U.S. Taxpayers to Hide Assets and Income in Offshore Accounts.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS, Mont. - The Bureau of Land Management has opened a 15-day public scoping period for nominated oil and gas lease parcels located in Montana and North Dakota. The scoping period runs through Oct. 21, 2020 and is intended to solicit public input on nominated lease parcels for the March 23, 2021 lease sale, including the preliminary recommendations and stipulations.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Jason Pantone, age 34, of Hyde Park, New York, pled guilty today to conveying false information and hoax letters in connection with envelopes containing white powder he mailed to federal offices throughout Upstate and Central New York, and the Southern Tier.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Seamus Murphy, 38, formerly of Milford, pleaded guilty in federal court to bank robbery, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, today announced that Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew E. Krause has been appointed to serve as a United States Magistrate Judge. He will sit in White Plains.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - The final unneeded structure at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) has been torn down, bringing an end to demolition activities that have removed more than 13 million square feet of facilities. By completing this last teardown, Oak Ridge becomes the first site in the world to remove an entire uranium enrichment complex.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - While upholding and safeguarding the nation’s maritime interests across eleven distinct mission areas, United States Coast Guard (USCG) personnel often interact with non-English speakers, making it challenging to quickly assess and respond to a variety of situations. To better equip USCG...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - The founder of an Erie non-profit organization and a resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of wire fraud and false writing or document to the government, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: Dr. Geoffrey Girnun Used Government Funds to Make Personal Mortgage and Tuition Payments.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - U.S. Marshal Tyreece Miller announces the capture of an accused violent fugitive from Milwaukee, Ladarian Coffee.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Seamus Murphy, 38, formerly of Milford, pleaded guilty in federal court to bank robbery, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: St. Louis, Missouri - Christopher Walton, 27, of St. Louis, Missouri, was sentenced to 46 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. He appeared in federal court today before U.S. District Judge Henry E. Autrey.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that Gilbert Chrispin Noel Jr., 56, of Wayland, Michigan, was sentenced to serve a total of 36 months in the Federal Bureau of Prisons for two counts of credit union robbery and one count of bank robbery. U.S. District Judge Paul Maloney also imposed a period of supervised release of 3 years and ordered Noel to pay $22,489.00 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - Husband and wife Mehulkumar Manubhai Patel and Chaitali Dave have pleaded guilty to laundering over $500,000 on behalf of India-based phone scammers.
