News from September 2020
By Interior Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: MOAB, UT- The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Moab Field Office is seeking comments on the Lisbon Valley Mining Company Plan of Operations Modification for a 30-day public comment period on Sept. 29, 2020 and ending on Oct. 29, 2020.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
Release: Washington, DC, Sept. 29, 2020 - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced today that low-income California residents dealing with the ongoing wildfires could be eligible for a helping hand from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (D-SNAP).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Jersey City police officer today admitted to conspiring to defraud Jersey City by obtaining compensation for off-duty work that she did not perform, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that PAUL A. RINFRET was sentenced in Manhattan federal court today to 63 months in prison for participating in a Ponzi scheme in which he obtained approximately $19 million in total from victims through a...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The former acting business administrator for the Township of Orange, New Jersey, who had previously been indicted for multiple acts of corruption and fraud, was indicted today on additional conspiracy, wire fraud, and kickback-taking charges in a superseding indictment, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: Miami, Fl. -- A Florida attorney and former outside counsel for 1 Global Capital LLC (1 Global), has been charged today with conspiring to commit wire fraud and securities fraud in connection with an investment fraud scheme that, as alleged, impacted more than 3,600 investors in 42 different states, and involved him personally and fraudulently raising more than $100 million from investors.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) applauded the House Democrats’ newly-released COVID-19 relief package for including multiple provisions offered by the Committee, including critical relief for aviation workers. The relief package also includes much-needed aid to sustain public transit, Amtrak, and airports, all of which have seen passenger traffic drop precipitously amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement regarding recent New York Times reporting on President Trump’s tax information...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A Bessemer man pled guilty today to child pornography charges, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent in Charge Robert Hammer.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Kevin Vigil, 54, of Española, New Mexico, was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Sept. 22 for sexually abusing a six-year-old child.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Rian Patterson, age 23, a former U.S. Army solider previously stationed at Fort Drum, New York, was sentenced today to serve 30 months in federal prison for the burglaries of two federally licensed firearms dealers in Northern New York, announced Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon and John B. DeVito, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Richard Tingler, age 56, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to the federal charges of armed bank robbery and brandishing of a firearm during a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A man identified as a member of the Heath Street Gang was sentenced yesterday for distributing crack cocaine in a public housing development.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: Miami, Fl. -- A Florida attorney and former outside counsel for 1 Global Capital LLC (1 Global), has been charged today with conspiring to commit wire fraud and securities fraud in connection with an investment fraud scheme that, as alleged, impacted more than 3,600 investors in 42 different states, and involved him personally and fraudulently raising more than $100 million from investors.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
Release: Washington, DC, Sept. 29, 2020 - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced today that more than 100 million food boxes have been distributed in support of American farmers and families affected by the COVID-19 pandemic through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Farmers to Families...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a White River, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault With a Dangerous Weapon and Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A South Texas doctor has agreed to pay $3,234,900.50 to resolve allegations he fraudulently submitted claims to the Medicare program for medically unnecessary tests and procedures, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The leader of an international money laundering organization in the Dominican Republic was arraigned in New Jersey today after being extradited to the United States, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: NEW YORK CITY - Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Raymond P. Donovan, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, announced that Richard Mendoza was charged in an indictment with conspiring to...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: Partnership Results in Multiple Drug Dealers Federally Indicted, Taken Off Streets.
