News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: Attorney General William P. Barr Announces the Designation of Antoinette T. Bacon as Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau is sending an additional paper questionnaire to over 16.2 million households in low-responding census tracts. About 84.9% of households have completed the 2020 Census with 65.2% self-responding online, by phone or by mail.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - An accountant has agreed to plead guilty to a federal charge that he ran a $3.3 million Ponzi scheme that falsely promised generous returns for foreign exchange currency investors, and he facilitated the scheme in part with money he embezzled from his former employer, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: William Harrell Also Ordered to Pay $907,669.75 in Restitution to the IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Jeremiah Lee Carr, of Glenville, West Virginia, was sentenced today to six months of incarceration to be followed by six months of home detention for his involvement in a methamphetamine distribution operation, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Ventura County man was arrested today by FBI special agents on a five-count federal grand jury indictment charging him with using the Skype internet messenger service to pay facilitators overseas to livestream the sexual and physical abuse of female minors.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: TAOS, N.M. - With the easing of public health and safety restrictions enacted by the State of New Mexico health officials, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announces that the Taos Field Office is increasing access to the Orilla Verde Recreation Area and some areas of the Wild Rivers Campgrounds. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA: A U.S. Army major assigned to the U.S. Army Cyber Command at Fort Gordon, Ga., has admitted to producing child pornography.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL) wrote to Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Dan Brouillette today demanding answers for DOE’s delay in implementing the survey and other procedures that serve as the basis for the upcoming 2021...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL) wrote to Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Dan Brouillette today demanding answers for DOE’s delay in implementing the survey and other procedures that serve as the basis for the upcoming 2021...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) wrote to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar today to express concern following several drug manufacturers’ ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Two Santa Clarity Valley residents were arrested today on a federal indictment accusing them of scheming to defraud a company out of more than $1.7 million earmarked for diversity recruitment by using two fake businesses that billed for services that were never performed.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Man Tat Le, aka Asian Le, pleaded guilty to distribution of methamphetamine Wednesday morning and was sentenced to 84 months in federal prison. U.S. District Judge Dale A. Kimball imposed the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - Daniel Moore, 33, has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for being a convicted felon in possession of ammunition. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Sept. 1, 2020, Earnest Lee Pittman, Jr., age 45, of Cresco, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury on online child enticement charges.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: BISHOP, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Bishop Field Office has issued a temporary emergency closure for BLM-managed public lands on the western slope of Antelope Valley, and all of Little Antelope Valley and Slinkard Valley in Mono County, due to wildland fire suppression operations within and adjacent to the Slink Fire.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for distributing fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Pennsylvania medical assistant today admitted participating in a conspiracy to receive bribes and kickbacks in exchange for ordering genetic tests, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, and Rep. Jimmy Gomez, Vice Chair of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, sent a letter to the Department of Justice requesting an investigation into the actions of a violent contingent of...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was charged yesterday with being a felon in possession of a loaded semi-automatic pistol.
