News from September 2020
By USDA Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated six Nevada counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Churchill, Humboldt, Lincoln, Lyon, Pershing and Washoe counties who suffered losses due to recent drought, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Marcus D. Evans, 26, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced today to 16 ½ years in prison by United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr., following his convictions for two counts of robbery and one count of brandishing a firearm. In addition to his...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: On July 8, 2020, Attorney General William P. Barr announced the launch of Operation Legend, a sustained, systematic and coordinated law enforcement initiative in which federal law enforcement agencies work in conjunction with state and local law enforcement officials to fight violent crime. The initiative is named in honor of four-year-old LeGend Taliferro, who was shot and killed while he slept early in the morning of June 29 in Kansas City.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Attorney General William P. Barr announced today that Antoinette T. Bacon has been designated as the Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 3345(a)(3). Bacon will replace U.S. Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, who announced his resignation upon his appointment as a Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Joshua Wayne Thompson, 25, of Vallejo, pleadedd guilty today to being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2020
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - On Monday, Aug. 31, 2020, defendant, Gary Steven Wykle and Alejandro Cortés-López were arrested and charged in a fourteen-count indictment alleging Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud, Securities Fraud, and Wire Fraud, announced today W. Stephen Muldrow, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. The FBI was in charge of the investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The Department of Justice has reached a settlement of its civil forfeiture cases against assets acquired by Riza Aziz utilizing funds allegedly embezzled from 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), Malaysia’s investment development fund, and laundered through financial institutions in several jurisdictions, including the United States, Switzerland, Singapore and Luxembourg.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The former chief executive officer of a New Jersey-based importer of Italian luxury cars admitted today that he failed to report to the IRS as income kickback payments he received for misallocating limited edition sports cars, Attorney for the United States Rachael Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that WARREN G. TREME (“TREME"), age 55, a resident of Metairie, Louisiana, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to defraud First NBC Bank, the New Orleans-based bank that failed in April 2017.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 2, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) recently issued its on NuScale Power’s small modular reactor (SMR) design. This accomplishment is the first of its kind for a SMR and puts NuScale on track to receive a full design certification from the regulator by August 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2020
News Release: A repatriated ISIS fighter pled guilty to a terrorism charge, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman and Toledo Police Chief George Kral announced today the launch of Operation Red-Zone in the city of Toledo over the Labor Day holiday weekend. Joining the U.S. Attorney and Toledo Police Chief in the announcement were representatives from the ATF, DEA, FBI, U.S. Marshals, Lucas County Prosecutor, Lucas County Sherriff and the Ohio State Highway Patrol.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 2, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials Daniel Lipinski (D-IL) issued the following statements in response to the news that Amtrak will furlough over 2,000 workers due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic as part of its Fiscal Year 2021 Workforce Plan...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2020
News Release: MACON, Ga. - A methamphetamine trafficker caught with a large amount of “ice" methamphetamine was sentenced to serve twelve and a half years in prison today for his crime, said Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2020
News Release: Today, Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim signed a new competition enforcement framework between the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Federal Trade Commission, and competition agencies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. The Multilateral Mutual Assistance and Cooperation ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2020
News Release: A repatriated ISIS fighter has pleaded guilty to a terrorism charge, announced the Department of Justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2020
News Release: The United States has seized “Aletejahtv.com” and “Aletejahtv.org,” two websites, which were unlawfully utilized by Kata’ib Hizballah, a Specially Designated National and a Foreign Terrorist Organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2020
News Release: The Department of Justice has reached a settlement of its civil forfeiture cases against assets acquired by Riza Aziz utilizing funds allegedly embezzled from 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), Malaysia’s investment development fund, and laundered through financial institutions in several jurisdictions, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2020
News Release: A federal grand jury in Las Vegas, Nevada, returned a superseding indictment today charging a Las Vegas man with conspiracy to defraud the IRS, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada, and Special Agent in Charge Tara Sullivan for the IRS-Criminal Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2020
News Release: Each weekday, the Department of Justice will highlight a case that has resulted from Operation Legend. Today’s case is out of the Southern District of Indiana. Operation Legend launched in Indianapolis on Aug. 14, 2020 in response to the city facing record-breaking homicide and non-fatal shooting rates. ...
