News from February 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA -Scott Douglas Born, a former correctional officer at Federal Correctional Institution Hazelton’s Female Facility has admitted to the sexual abuse of an inmate, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: ROANOKE, Va. - A Roanoke woman, who failed to disclose her family’s ownership stakes in a series of show ponies as part a bankruptcy proceeding, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to six months in federal prison to be followed by two years of supervised release, six months of which must be spent on home confinement, Acting United States Attorney Daniel P. Bubar made the announced today.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Salud Carbajal (D-CA) announced the Subcommittee will hold a hearing titled, “State of the U.S. Maritime Industry: Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic." This is the first Subcommittee hearing that newly-elected Chair Carbajal will preside over.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: Defendant used a variety of fraudulent schemes to steal approximately $200,000 from Seattle mountain bike shop.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Rep. Peter DeFazio, Chair of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, today met with President Joe Biden and other members of House Democratic leadership to discuss the urgent need for another COVID-19 relief package.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Connecticut woman was arrested today and charged with engaging in a scheme to divert more than approximately $540,000 in payments owed to her former employers by using an unauthorized PayPal account to misappropriate the funds for personal use, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Elias Mendoza, 25, of Grand Island, was sentenced on February 5, 2021, in federal court in Lincoln, Nebraska for three counts of distribution of methamphetamine and one count of felon in possession of a firearm. Chief United States District Judge John M.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Andrew Murray announced today that Asheville-based Southeastern Physical Therapy (SEPT) and owner Darren Cady have agreed to resolve allegations that Cady received illegal kickbacks and violated the False Claims Act by submitting claims for reimbursement for certain durable medical equipment to the Veterans Affairs (VA) while participating in the VA “Choice Provider" program.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: EUGENE, Ore.-On February 4, 2021, a White City, Oregon man was sentenced for violating the Lacey Act by illegally poaching a trophy bull elk in Crater Lake National Park, announced U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Chicopee man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Springfield to drug distribution charges.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: Today, the House will vote on H.R. 447, the National Apprenticeship Act of 2021. This shortsighted, job-killing legislation doubles down on a flawed 80-year-old system, encourages union giveaways, and limits employers’ abilities to create apprenticeship programs that meet the unique needs of their workers.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: Defendant Spent Pandemic Relief Funds On Private Jet Travel, Hotel Stays, Louis Vuitton And Neiman Marcus Purchases, Expensive Automobiles, And Other Personal Luxury Items.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Cumberland County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 96 months in prison for distributing images of child sexual abuse, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that GUADALUPE HERRERA-PEREZ, age 41, a citizen of Mexico, pled on Feb. 3, 2021 today to a one-count Bill of Information for illegal reentry of a removed alien after deportation, in violation of 8 U.S.C. '' 1326(a) and (b)(2).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Raymond P. Donovan, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA"), Peter C. Fitzhugh, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of Homeland Security Investigations...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - A procurement supervisor at the Jesse Brown Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Chicago pocketed kickbacks from the president of a medical supply company to steer the company at least $1.7 million in product orders, many of which were never fulfilled, according to an indictment returned in federal court in Chicago.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: Socorro, N.M. - Between Feb. 10 and March 15, the Bureau of Land Management’s Socorro Field Office, in cooperation with the New Mexico State Land Office and private landowners, will be burning sacaton grass draws east of Socorro, N.M., weather permitting. Up to 1,200 acres of grass and brush will be...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A West Los Angeles pharmacy and its owner pleaded guilty today to federal criminal charges stemming from a scheme in which millions of dollars in reimbursements for compounded drugs were generated through the payment of illegal kickbacks for patient referrals and by fraudulently paying patients’ copayments.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: Each year to protect raptor nesting sites, Rocky Mountain National Park officials initiate temporary closures in areas of the park. To ensure that these birds of prey can nest undisturbed, specific areas within the park are closed temporarily to public use during nesting season and monitored by wildlife...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Committee on Ways and Means Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-Texas) today wrote Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and U.S. Department of Treasury Deputy Inspector General Richard Delmar calling for accountability and transparency regarding the Coronavirus Relief Fund (CRF), part of the CARES Act.
