News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two Essex County, New Jersey, men - a compliance safety and health officer (CSHO) with the U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and his brother - are scheduled to appear today on charges that they conspired to extort $6,000 in cash from a general contractor, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - U.S. Attorney Robert M. Duncan Jr., of the Eastern District of Kentucky, announced that Anderson County Board of Education, Fayette County Board of Education, and Whitley County Board of Education will receive $26,794, $499,355, and $356,651, respectively, from the Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) School Violence Prevention Program (SVPP).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Anita Vijay, 50, of Sacramento, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to pay and receive illegal kickbacks in exchange for Medicare beneficiary referrals and to soliciting kickbacks in exchange for Medicare beneficiary referrals, United States Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - Reclamation announces a virtual open house website for the Shasta Lake Water Resources Investigation Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - United States District Court Judge Francisco A. Besosa sentenced Ángel Figueroa-Cruz to 10 months in prison followed by a supervised release term of three years and 150 hours of community service for his participation in a scheme to defraud the government, announced W. Stephen Muldrow, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. Figueroa-Cruz pleaded guilty on Oct. 15, 2019 to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: SHREVEPORT, LA - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Christus Shreveport-Bossier Health System in Shreveport, Louisiana, for failing to ensure employees wore proper protective equipment. OSHA has proposed $13,494 in penalties, the maximum allowed by law for a serious citation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - United States Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger was recently honored at the 24th Annual Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Awards ceremony with the Director’s Award, the ATF’s most prestigious award.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Wa1demar Martinez, a/k/a Crazy, 44, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine, was sentenced to serve five years in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Suffolk man was sentenced today to 70 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A registered sex offender from Southeast Texas pleaded guilty Wednesday to receiving child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Lowell man pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Jorge Luis Velasquez, 33, of Mexico, Omar Velazquez Landeros, 27, of Bakersfield, and Victor Romero Galvan, 29, of Mexico, were indicted today for conspiring and possessing with intent to distribute over 10,000 counterfeit oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl and approximately 10 pounds of methamphetamine, and for carrying firearms in furtherance of these crimes, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments yesterday. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) called for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to begin notifying non-filers eligible for economic impact payments (EIPs) immediately, rather than waiting until the end of the month. In his letter to IRS Commissioner Charles...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: CLEVELAND - U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman announced today that seven individuals were charged for using stolen identities of United States citizens from Puerto Rico and falsified identification documents to fraudulently purchase and finance vehicles and watercrafts from dealerships in Northern Ohio. The charges were made public in a forty-count indictment unsealed today in a federal court in the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: Misled government about materials used to pave roads.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Wilmington man was sentenced today to 100 months in prison for his role in the receipt, possession, and distribution of child pornography. The man was also sentenced to a five year term of supervised release and will be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A federal grand jury has returned a 16-count indictment charging a physician and pharmaceutical sales representative with defrauding New Jersey state health benefits programs and other insurers out of more than $2.5 million by submitting fraudulent claims for medically unnecessary prescriptions, as well as unlawfully obtaining and disclosing individually identifiable patient health information protected by HIPAA, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - In addition to radios and cell phones, first responders must carry myriad sensors and peripheral devices that can require different power sources and may need to be charged at different intervals. To address this challenge, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments yesterday. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
