News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: Justice Department Obtains $20,000 Settlement Against Tampa, Florida Towing Company for Unlawfully Selling Deployed Servicemember’s Car.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: Locally produced documentary film chronicles Rhode Islanders on their path of opioid addiction.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of tax fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) expressed their serious concerns with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS)...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Atlantic County, New Jersey, woman today admitted that she paid a man that she believed to be a hitman $4,000 in October 2018 to assault her ex-boyfriend, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - EM and its stakeholder and industry partners have responded to COVID-19-related challenges that few if any could have foreseen just six months ago, according to participants at the National Cleanup Workshop.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Sargeant Marine Inc., an asphalt company incorporated and formerly headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, pleaded guilty and agreed to pay $16.6 million to resolve foreign bribery charges stemming from conduct by the company and its employees and agents in...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty plea of RAY GHANSHAM PERSAUD, 21, to calling in a bomb threat to the University of St. Thomas on Sept. 17, 2019. PERSAUD entered his guilty plea this morning before Judge Eric C. Tostrud in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK -Randy Eignor, age 50, of Rotterdam, New York, pled guilty today to attempted online enticement of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard has sentenced Jimmy Ray Lightsey (40, Jacksonville) to 20 years in federal prison for possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, possessing controlled substances with the intent to distribute them, and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. A jury found Lightsey guilty on Jan. 23, 2020.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after the House of Representatives passed H.R. 6210, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which designates all goods produced, wholly or in part, in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region as being produced with forced labor unless U.S. Customs and Border Protection can determine, by clear and convincing evidence, that the good was not produced with forced labor...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Martrel Rayshard Reeves, age 30, of Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty today to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: Today, the Department of Justice, through the Joint Criminal Opioid and Darknet Enforcement (JCODE) team, joined Europol to announce the results of Operation DisrupTor, a coordinated international effort to disrupt opioid trafficking on the Darknet. The operation, which was conducted across the United States and Europe, demonstrates the continued partnership between JCODE and Europol against the illegal sale of drugs and other illicit goods and services.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM has resumed processing high-level waste (HLW) inside the Tank Closure Cesium Removal (TCCR) module at the Savannah River Site (SRS) following an extended maintenance outage.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: Sacramento, California Resident and Troy, New York Resident Must Reimburse Victims For Money Made Through Illegal Sex Trafficking.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy has announced up to $2 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development projects under the funding opportunity announcement (FOA) DE-FOA-0002376, Enabling Gasification of Blended Coal, Biomass, and Plastic Wastes to Produce Hydrogen with Potential for Net-Negative Carbon Dioxide Emissions.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An illegal alien and admitted MS-13 gang member was sentenced today to 28 months in prison for serving as a getaway driver for three men associated with MS-13 who had just committed an armed robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: Texas Woman Sentenced to Prison for Role in $5.5 Million Federal Worker’s Compensation Overbilling Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A five-time convicted felon was sentenced Monday to three years and four months in prison for unlawful possession of a firearm and threatening his girlfriend’s life with the firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada and Special Agent in Charge Patrick Gorman of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jacob Graham, 19, of Jamestown, NY, who was convicted of possessing with intent to distribute five grams or more of actual methamphetamine, and possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, was sentenced to serve 120 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
