News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - The Office of Justice Programs’ Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) has received multiple reports that individuals claiming to represent the Department of Justice are calling members of the public as part of an imposter scam. The Department strongly encourages the public to remain vigilant and not to provide personal information during these calls, which appear to target the elderly.
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: Baltimore, Maryland - Egan Davis, age 40, of Nottingham, Maryland, pleaded guilty today and co-defendant Amin Boyd, age 42, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty on September 8, 2020, to federal drug distribution charges related to their participation in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine and/or fentanyl...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: SOUTH BEND - Five individuals from Elkhart, Indiana were charged by way of a 2 count Indictment with robbery affecting interstate commerce and using a firearm in the commission of a crime of violence, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS - A Billings man accused of strangling a woman at a Crow Agency residence admitted assault charges today, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, released a series of staff reports warning that states with an undercount of just 1% in the 2020 Census could lose hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding they are entitled to every year unless the statutory deadlines are extended to address delays caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: Sept. 10, 2020 - U.S. Attorney Schroder of Alaska announced that Ketchikan Police Department received $248,702 and Nenana City School District received $75,000 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: U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman announced today that 18 individuals were charged for their roles in a drug trafficking conspiracy which involved the illegal distribution of cocaine, crack, heroin, fentanyl, fentanyl analogues and other drugs in the Youngstown-Warren area, including providing a substance...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: Harrison, Ark. - In August 2020, Buffalo National River staff discovered significant damage at Fitton Cave in Buffalo National River in Newton County. Individuals involved in this crime forced their way into a secure entrance of the cave, and damaged, vandalized, and removed many cave formations, such as stalagmites and draperies. These acts destroyed vital pieces of the shared natural resource heritage protected at Buffalo National River.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: Prescribed diabetes drug in exchange for kickbacks.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: FBI San Diego Participates in National Messaging Campaign to Educate Citizens About Election Security and Foreign Malign Influence in Advance of the November Election.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr., announced today that seven individuals were charged in an indictment with laundering over $750,000 of fraudulently obtained funds, including over $390,000 from a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan. The defendants used a variety...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Margaret Everson, Counselor to the Secretary, exercising the delegated authority of the National Park Service Director, today announced the award of a $30.8 million construction contract to repair the historic Ellis Island seawall at the Statue of Liberty National Monument. The National...
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 10, 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), along with 16 other senators and 23 members of the House of Representatives sent a bipartisan letter calling for the inclusion of the Utilizing Significant Emissions with Innovative Technologies (USE IT) Act in the Fiscal Year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (FY21 NDAA).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: COPS Office Public Affairs (202) 514-9079 or cops.office.public.affairs@usdoj.gov.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell, III today sentenced Davon Nelson, age 35, of Baltimore, today to 11 years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for distribution of fentanyl and conspiracy to distribute fentanyl. Nelson, a career offender, had numerous prior state conviction for drug related offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Agustin Alberto Lainez, a Florida man who harassed a Charlottesville-area woman and threatened to physically harm her and expose publicly her personal information, pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court here to federal cyberstalking. United States Attorney Thomas T. Cullen and David W. Archey, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Richmond Division made the announcement today.
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 DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to fentanyl trafficking.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, a bipartisan, bicameral group of lawmakers sent a letter to the bipartisan leadership of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) and Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) calling for inclusion of the Utilizing Significant Emissions with Innovative Technologies (USE IT) Act in the Fiscal Year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (FY21 NDAA).
