News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: Baltimore Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake today sentenced Lance Andre Lucas, age 44, of Baltimore, Maryland, to 18 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for federal honest services wire fraud and use of an interstate facility to carry on unlawful activity, also known as the Travel Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Tony Merksick, 43, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was sentenced today in Omaha, Nebraska by Chief United States District Judge John M. Gerrard to three years’ probation for Filing a False Tax Return. Merksick’s probation will include special conditions that Merksick...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: Also Settles Civil Claims Arising from Improper Ketamine Prescriptions and Recordkeeping.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Jerry Zweitzig, 71, of Hatboro, PA, was sentenced to 200 years in prison and lifetime supervised release by United States District Court Judge Wendy Beetlestone for manufacturing and attempted manufacturing of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: The Charges Stem from the Alleged Improper Handling, Transportation & Storage of Lead-Contaminated Soil from the City’s Firing Range.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, N.Y. - Scott McMahon, age 52, of Queensbury, New York, pled guilty today to distributing controlled substances outside the course of professional practice and for no legitimate medical purpose, and to misusing personal information in the course of fraudulently obtaining controlled substances. McMahon also agreed to pay $43,225.24 to settle civil penalty claims arising from his improper prescribing of ketamine and failure to keep proper records of ketamine treatment.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Charges were filed today in a criminal complaint alleging that Alan Varela and Bill Gilmartin, the president and vice president, respectively, of a Bay Area civil engineering and construction firm, bribed Mohammed Nuru, formerly San Francisco’s Director of Public Works, announced United...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Ryan Kee Jones, 25, of Yatahey, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, appeared in federal court on Sept. 16, 2020, on a criminal complaint charging him with aggravated sexual abuse of a minor in Indian Country.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that ARVIND “MIKE" VIRA (“VIRA"), age 74, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, pled guilty today to a years-long conspiracy with First NBC Bank president Ashton J. Ryan to defraud the New Orleans-based bank that failed in April 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - A former Harris County judge has admitted to embezzling funds received during her re-election campaigns, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick and Special Agent in Charge Perrye K. Turner of the FBI Houston Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A Louisville, Kentucky, man, who fired the shot that killed a 7-year old child on May 21, 2017, has been sentenced to 70 months, followed by 3 years supervised release by U.S. District Judge Claria Horn Boom. Judge Boom also sentenced Williams to 24 hours per year of community service speaking about gun violence in this community. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JONELL BONILLA, 26, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant to 46 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for operating a counterfeit check bank fraud scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: SUSANVILLE, Calif., -- Volunteers are welcome to help spruce up the Bizz Johnson National Recreation Trail when the Bureau of Land Management and Lassen Land and Trails Trust host a National Public Lands Day project, Saturday, Sept. 26.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A Savannah man has admitted to killing the wife of a deployed U.S. Army soldier on post at Fort Stewart.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: House Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Chairman John B. Larson announced today that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing entitled “Save Our Social Security Now," on Thursday, September 24th, at 1:00 PM EDT.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An indictment was unsealed today charging three computer hackers, all of whom were residents and nationals of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Iran), with engaging in a coordinated campaign of identity theft and hacking on behalf of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a designated foreign terrorist organization, in order to steal critical information related to United States aerospace and satellite technology and resources.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today sounded the alarm on an imminent crisis for Medicare - the program’s trust fund will be insolvent in fiscal year 2024. That means Medicare may only be able to pay for a fraction of the earned benefits that seniors count on.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: During today’s debate of H.R. 2694, Democrats opposed an amendment offered by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee, that would protect religious organizations from being forced to make employment decisions that conflict with their faith.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Robert Benjamin Nelson, 28, of Scottsdale, Arizona, made an initial appearance in federal court today on charges of attempted murder of a federal officer and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence.
