News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: Albany, Ga. - A convicted felon with a violent criminal past was sentenced to 84 months in prison after a federal jury found him guilty of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger announced today that Advanced Pain Management (“APM") has agreed to pay $1 million to settle claims asserting violations of the False Claims Act by paying kickbacks and by performing medically unnecessary laboratory tests. APM is a collection of companies including...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman announced today that Joshua T. Grant, age 28, of Elyria, Ohio was sentenced by Judge John R. Adams to a maximum term of 10 years in prison after Grant pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession of a firearm by a person with a prior misdemeanor domestic violence conviction.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on Sunrise International LLC (Sunrise), Miami, Fla., for violating the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA). These sanctions include barring the business and the principal operator of the business from engaging in PACA licensed business or other activities without approval from USDA.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: A Lubbock man who allegedly plotted a mass shooting pleaded guilty today to making false statements to a federally-licensed firearms dealer, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that on Oct. 1, 2020, JOSE HUMBERTO DELSIB-MARTINEZ (hereinafter “DELSIB"), age 40, a native of Honduras, was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison after pleading guilty in December 2019 to a three-count superseding bill...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: The Defendants’ Conduct Included the Shooting of an Off-Duty Police Officer in October 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - First Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that twelve Chester County Prison inmates and their accomplices were charged federally with fraudulently applying for and obtaining emergency unemployment benefits related to COVID-19. The defendants are charged...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - Three individuals were charged today in connection with a multi-million dollar Medicare fraud scheme, bringing the total number of defendants to six.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Robert H. Hendricks (64, Ponte Vedra) has pleaded guilty to four counts of wire fraud. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison for each count. Hendricks has agreed to pay at least $2,682,924.34 in restitution to his victims. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - A Covington man, Robert Copeland, 43, was sentenced in federal court on Friday, to 63 months in prison, by U.S. District Judge David Bunning, after previously admitting to conspiring with others to distribute crack cocaine.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued temporary guidance for enforcing initial and annual fit-testing requirements related to tight-fitting powered air-purifying respirators. The action marks the Department’s latest step to ensure the availability of respirators and follows President Donald J. Trump’s Memorandum on Making General Use Respirators Available.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: Department of Justice Files Statement of Interest Supporting Capitol Hill Baptist Church's Efforts to Practice its Faith During COVID-19.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - David Clay Fowlkes, First Assistant United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Scott Royal, age 38, of Fayetteville, Arkansas, was sentenced today to 120 months in federal prison without the possibility of parole followed by 15 years of supervised...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - A Covington man, Robert Copeland, 43, was sentenced in federal court on Friday, to 63 months in prison, by U.S. District Judge David Bunning, after previously admitting to conspiring with others to distribute crack cocaine.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Republicans on the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis released a report on President Trump’s whole of America response to protect American lives, reopen the economy, and defeat the virus.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate’s (S&T) Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP) has awarded $157,801 in Phase 1 funding to Kenautics, Inc., of Encinitas, CA, to provide a more reliable system for marking objects in water, under SVIP’s Maritime Object Tracking Technology (MOTT) solicitation.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement announcing Staff Director Mike Bloomquist has departed the committee for the private sector. Deputy Staff Director and E&C veteran Ryan Long will succeed Bloomquist as Staff Director for Committee Republicans, effective immediately.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - The United States Attorney’s Office, in conjunction with the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced today that a federal investigation found insufficient evidence to pursue federal criminal civil rights charges...
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC- Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) issued the following statement after Republicans blocked H.R. 8504, the Payroll Support Program Extension Act, from moving forward. H.R. 8504 would extend the highly successful Payroll Support program to keep hundreds of thousands of workers employed, with benefits, through March 31, 2021. Bill text can be found here.
