News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - An Indian national has admitted to a federal court judge in Rhode Island that he sought to misappropriate funds from bank accounts of victims across the United States, using personal and banking information obtained from the victims earlier in the course of an India-based telemarketing scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - An Illinois man, who previously lived in Massachusetts, was sentenced today in connection with a wire fraud scheme whereby victims were told they owed money to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: FBI Media Alert: Albuquerque Carjacking Suspect Wanted by the FBI.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau released the total number of 2020 Census paid temporary workers that earned any pay Aug. 30 - Sept. 5, 2020. The data tables include national totals for all 50 states and the District of Columbia by Census Bureau regional geography. A weekly number of paid temporary workers for Puerto Rico is also available. The weekly release will occur 10 days after the end of the weekly period.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey (D-N.Y.), House Administration Committee Chairwoman Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Education and Labor Committee Chairman Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (D-VA), Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Financial Services...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Seven members of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of New Jersey, are among those who were honored by the Department of Justice’s 36th Annual Director’s Awards this year, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Drew H. Wrigley announced today that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of North Dakota completed its investigation and entered into settlement agreements with Joe Black’s Bar and Grill and the Hub Pub to resolve allegations that these restaurants violated the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 ("ADA"). Both restaurants are owned and operated by Dennis Blackmun and Joe Schneider and are popular establishments in downtown Grand Forks.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - A Texas woman has been taken into custody on allegations she fraudulently obtained more than $1.9 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick and Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian C. Rabbitt of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Modeling results for the Colorado River Basin operations released today by the Bureau of Reclamation indicate continued drought and an increased chance of potential water shortages by 2025. The Colorado River Basin is in its 21st year of an extended drought. As reservoir levels decline, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: Project Guardian: Local Efforts Increase. SHREVEPORT, La. - Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook, along with Caddo Parish District Attorney James E. Stewart, Shreveport Police Chief Ben Raymond and Caddo Parish Sheriff Steve Prator, and agents from the ATF, FBI and DEA, held a press conference...
By State Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, this evening released correspondence between the State Department and the State Department Office of Inspector General (OIG), provided by the OIG in response to a request by Chairman Engel, detailing the Department’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Two California men today admitted to participating in a conspiracy to broker patients as part of a multi-state patient scheme in which one of them directed recruiters to bribe drug-addicted individuals to enroll in drug rehabilitation and the other paid referral fees from his rehabilitation center in exchange for those patient referrals, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - FEMA, in coordination with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), has released the “Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) Program Planning Toolkit." It will assist new and existing state, local, tribal and territorial alerting authorities to create and support an effective program for alerts, warnings and notifications.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man has been arrested on a federal drug charge for allegedly selling wholesale quantities of heroin and fentanyl in the West Loop neighborhood of Chicago.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey today announced an agreement with the Borough of Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, to resolve allegations that the Borough violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) by denying zoning approval for an Orthodox Jewish congregation to construct a worship center on its property.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: Sold Firearm, Stolen from a Police Officer, to Undercover Agent.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: Defendant admitted to participating in a June 2019 shooting.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - United States Attorney Lawrence Keefe of the Northern District of Florida today marked the one-year anniversary of his office’s Public Trust Unit, highlighting the impact of almost 20 cases of public corruption and other wrongdoing that his office has pursued since he took the oath of office.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA- A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of conspiracy, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)-in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate-has awarded Cummins, Inc. approximately $1 million in federal funds to develop H2Rescue, a hydrogen fuel cell truck that will travel to disaster relief sites and provide power, heat, and water.
