News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: Defendant allegedly used two ‘Molotov cocktails’ in attempt to burn police vehicles in downtown Seattle.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: Muscogee (Creek) Nation Awarded $125,000. The Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) this week announced $4.5 million in grants for the Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act Program. These program funds are used to improve the delivery of and access...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A former employee of the IRS Service Center in Andover pleaded guilty today to aiding and assisting the preparation and filing of at least 70 false tax returns for herself and other individuals.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Wheeling Hospital, Inc., an acute care hospital located in Wheeling, West Virginia, has agreed to pay the United States a total of $50,000,000 to resolve claims that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly submitting claims to the Medicare program that resulted from violations of the Physician Self-Referral Law and the Anti‑Kickback Statute, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: 66 defendants charged with federal crimes under Operation Legend in Cleveland.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RANDY MARCHI, 39, formerly of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for his role in a large-scale heroin trafficking ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man has pled guilty to drug crimes, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Maurice D. Grigsby, also known as “Ty," 35, pled guilty to two counts of distribution of crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that an individual received consecutive sentences totaling 180 months following convictions in separate cases for child sexual abuse and abusive sexual contact. The man, Peter Awonohopay (age: 37), formerly lived in Neopit, which is a community on the Menominee Indian Reservation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Charlotte Besumbu Etongwe, 45, of Beltsville, Maryland, pled guilty today in federal court to defrauding the D.C. Medicaid program out of more than a quarter million dollars.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: Today, Wednesday, September 9, at 11:00 a.m. EDT, Acting Secretary Chad F. Wolf will deliver the 2020 State of the Homeland Address at the DHS Headquarters in Washington, DC. The Acting Secretary will cover current threats facing the Homeland as well as a department-wide strategy to defend the American people and our way of life.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: On Wednesday, Department of Homeland Security Acting Secretary Chad Wolf gave the annual State of the Homeland Address. The 2020 State of the Homeland Address covers several different issue areas, all of which make up the Department of Homeland Security’s single, overarching mission: Protecting the American people, the homeland, and our values.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C., September 9, 2020) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced today that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will provide approximately $530 million to support the U.S. seafood industry and fishermen impacted by retaliatory tariffs from foreign governments. The funding will be provided through the Seafood Trade Relief Program and funded through the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC), administered by USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA).
By USDA Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: ReConnect Funding to Connect 1,658 Rural Households to High-Speed Broadband WASHINGTON, Sept. 9, 2020 – The Trump Administration today announced that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing nearly $10 million to provide broadband service in unserved and underserved rural areas ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: A former Senior Correctional Officer at the Federal Correctional Complex (FCC) in Beaumont, Texas, was sentenced yesterday in federal court for assaulting an inmate housed at the facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: Today, at a press conference in Chicago, Attorney General William P. Barr announced updates to Operation Legend.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: Illinois Man Charged with Discharging a Firearm While Carjacking a Vehicle from Two Victims Each weekday, the Department of Justice will highlight a case that has resulted from Operation Legend. Today’s case is out of the Northern District of Illinois. Operation Legend launched in Chicago on July 22, 2020, in response to the city facing increased homicide and non-fatal shooting rates.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: Wheeling Hospital Inc., an acute care hospital located in Wheeling, West Virginia, has agreed to pay the United States a total of $50,000,000 to resolve claims that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly submitting claims to the Medicare program that resulted from violations of the Physician Self-Referral Law and the Anti‑Kickback Statute, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: A Glendale, California lawyer pleaded guilty today in connection with a conspiracy to defraud a bank into processing more than $5 million in credit and debit card payments for a student loan debit relief merchant that had previously been terminated by the bank’s risk department and his attempt to obstruct ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: A Glendale, California attorney pleaded guilty today for conspiring to make and conceal conduit and excessive campaign contributions during the U.S. presidential election in 2016 and thereafter.
