News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: Taiwan Company Pleads Guilty to Trade Secret Theft in Criminal Case Involving PRC State-Owned Company.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender was sentenced on Oct. 23, 2020, by Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: Imposter Nurse Sentenced to Prison for Fraud and Tax Evasion.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Kashamba John, 32, of Atlanta, GA, was sentenced to 30 years in prison, 10 years of supervised release, and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $23,299 by United States District Judge Eduardo C. Robreno for running a national...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for video recording his sexual abuse of a 15-year-old victim.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: Lawrence County victim service organizations, courts, law enforcement, nonprofit, government, and nongovernmental organizations awarded over $309,000.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: DHS, Trump Administration Protect American Jobs from Unfair International Competition Agency Proposes Prioritizing Higher Wage Levels to Better Protect U.S. Workers WASHINGTON —Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced the transmission to the Federal Register of a notice of proposed ...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: Today’s announcement by Mr. Taylor demonstrates that he was clearly pursuing a self-serving, self-promoting agenda while at the Department of Homeland Security rather than pursuing an agenda aimed at securing the Homeland. Having worked with Mr. Taylor on the President’s immigration and counter-terrorism ...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, Oct. 28, 2020 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced a final Alaska Roadless Rule that exempts the Tongass National Forest from the 2001 provision that prohibited road construction, road reconstruction and timber harvests.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, Oct. 28, 2020 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is reminding communities, farmers, ranchers and small businesses in the path of Hurricane Zeta that USDA has programs that provide assistance in the wake of disasters. USDA staff in the regional, state and county offices stand ready and are eager to help.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: New Schools, Health Clinics and Public Safety Facilities Will Benefit 3.5 Million People WASHINGTON, Oct. 28, 2020 – The Trump Administration today announced that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $871 million to improve critical community facilities to benefit 3.5 million rural residents in 43 states and Guam.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: ReConnect Funding to Connect 642 Rural Households to High-Speed Internet e-Connectivity SOMERSET, Ky., Oct. 28, 2020 – The Trump Administration today announced that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $5 million to provide broadband service in unserved and underserved rural areas in Kentucky. This investment is part of the $550 million Congress allocated to the second round of the ReConnect Program.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: ReConnect Funding to Connect 551 Rural Households to High-Speed Internet e-Connectivity DES MOINES, Iowa, Oct. 28, 2020 – The Trump Administration today announced that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $1.8 million to provide broadband service in unserved and underserved rural areas in Iowa. This investment is part of the $550 million Congress allocated to the second round of the ReConnect Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: A Hoover, Alabama, salesman was sentenced to 24 months in prison yesterday for tax evasion, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona for the Northern District of Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: A Colorado resident was sentenced to 15 months in prison yesterday for his role in a biodiesel tax credit fraud scheme, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: A woman formerly employed by an Ann Arbor, Michigan, health care consultancy was sentenced to 65 months in prison for defrauding employers of over $2.2 million and evading more than $697,000 in taxes, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Matthew J. Schneider for the Eastern District of Michigan.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: A complaint and arrest warrants were unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging eight defendants with conspiring to act in the United States as illegal agents of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Six defendants also face related charges of conspiring to commit interstate and international ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: A former Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) public affairs officer was sentenced today to seven years in prison for defrauding at least a dozen companies of over $4.4 million by posing falsely as a covert officer of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: Today, the Department of Justice announced Standards for Certification that will be used by credentialing bodies so they can begin certifying thousands of law enforcement agencies over the next three months. The Standards of Certification are a result of President Trump’s June Executive Order 13929 , Safe Policing for Safe Communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: Guild Mortgage Company has agreed to pay the United States $24.9 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly breaching material program requirements when it originated and underwrote mortgages insured by the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Federal ...
