News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that the internet sports betting company, 5D Holdings Ltd. (operating under the unincorporated brand name, “5Dimes") and Laura Varela, have agreed to forfeit more than $46.8 million in gambling proceeds as part of a settlement agreement...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: A new study documented migration routes and overwintering areas of Dunlin (a shorebird) that nest in northern and western Alaska, including Cape Krusenstern National Monument. The study was based on 28,000 Dunlin banding records, 747 band resightings, and 71 recaptures of banded birds from 1960 to 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: PLANO, Texas - A Lake Kiowa, Texas man has been arrested and charged with international child exploitation crimes in the Eastern District of Texas announced U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox today.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: Hawaii National Park, HAWAI‘I - Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park announces the following upcoming flight plans.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: Two Montana nurse practitioners indicted in telemedicine fraud scheme for orthotic braces.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Panamanian man residing in Ansted pled guilty to a sex offense involving a minor, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Eugene Enrique Torres, 43, pled guilty to attempted enticement of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: Seattle - A 63-year-old Renton, Washington, man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to lying to federal agents about a fraud scheme carried out by a former Drainage District Commissioner and his wife, announced U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran. DARRELL N. WINSTON pleaded guilty to making a false statement and faces up to five years in prison when sentenced by U.S. District Judge Richard A. Jones on Dec. 18, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - David Clay Fowlkes, First Assistant United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that James Rhodes, age 35, was sentenced today to 120 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release for being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm. The Honorable Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - The Department of Justice Criminal Division today announced a historic nationwide enforcement action involving 345 charged defendants across 51 federal districts, including the Eastern District of Texas. In conjunction with the takedown, CMS Center for Program Integrity announced that...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: Seattle - U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran today announced more than $17 million in Department of Justice grants to improve public safety, serve victims of crime, and support youth programs in tribal communities in the Western District of Washington.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr.'s (D-NJ) remarks as prepared for delivery at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing titled, "Pathway to a Vaccine: Ensuring a Safe and Effective Vaccine People Will Trust," are enclosed below...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Energy and Commerce Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), member of the House Republican China Task Force, released the following statement on the release of the China Task Force report.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: Justice Department Files Housing Discrimination Lawsuit Against Staten Island, New York Rental Agent and Real Estate Agency.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.- Billy J. Williams, U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon, and Russ Burger, U.S. Marshal for the District of Oregon, provide the below statement on ongoing violence in Portland.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: Admits lying to FBI about funneling taxpayer money to former Commissioner and his wife for work never performed.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: Birmingham, Ala. - A federal today yesterday sentenced a former Vestavia Hills doctor to 30 years in prison for producing and possessing child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp, Jr.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), released the following statement on the Congressional passage of a one-year extension of highway funding. The extension was included in the Continuing Resolution, which passed the Senate 84 to 10. The House of Representatives passed the legislation last week.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Aaron Conrad Whavers, 50, of Pass Christian, pled guilty today before Senior U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr. to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, Special Agent in Charge Michelle A. Sutphin of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics Director Steve Maxwell.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that HECTOR LUNA, 32, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 30 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for his role in a cocaine trafficking ring.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today voted for a continuing resolution (CR), which averts a federal government shutdown and includes a full replenishment of the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) to aid agricultural producers. The CR funds the federal government until Dec. 11, 2020, and is now ready for President Trump’s signature into law.
