News from August 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2019
News Release: Millions of Dollars in Cryptocurrencies Forfeited.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Chief United States District Court Judge John M. Gerrard sentenced Craig A. Barnett, 62, of Lincoln, Nebraska, Thursday to a jail term of 16 months, a term of supervised release of three years and restitution of $277,000 for his conviction for wire and mail fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 19, 2019
News Release: On Aug. 25, national parks in greater Washington invite the public to join a nationwide commemoration to honor and remember the enslaved Africans brought to Virginia’s Point Comfort, now part of Fort Monroe National Monument, in 1619.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2019
News Release: A man who sexually exploited a child, conspired to distribute ice methamphetamine, and distributed ice methamphetamine was sentenced today to 22 years in federal prison.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 19, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Department of Energy (DOE) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs issued its first Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for Fiscal Year 2020. The Phase I Release 1 FOA, with approximately $31.5 million in available funding, ...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 19, 2019
News Release: LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATION AREA SEEKS PUBLIC INPUT ON DEVELOPMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT TO IMPROVE WILLOW BEACH ROAD.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 19, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement in response to news that Planned Parenthood had been forced out of the Title X family planning program by the Trump-Pence Administration’s gag rule.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 19, 2019
Release: NEWARK - It appears that someone left their pet snake at a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint at Newark Liberty International Airport last night.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 19, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after Planned Parenthood announced that it would have to withdraw from the Title X family planning program...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Bernard Lavon Woofter, 43, of Jackson, pled guilty today before Chief U.S. District Court Judge Daniel P. Jordan III to being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Michelle A. Sutphin, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 19, 2019
News Release: Washington - Rural Business-Cooperative Service Administrator Bette Brand today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is awarding grants for projects in all states and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to reduce energy costs (PDF, 216 KB) for farmers, ag producers and rural-based businesses and institutions.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 19, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center) is reviewing an annual report on the number of IPR seizures that have raised the total estimated manufacturer’s suggested retail price (MSRP) of the seized goods - had they been genuine - to $1.4 billion.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 19, 2019
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced that producers of nearly 17,000 dairy operations have signed up for the Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) program since signup opened June 17. Producers interested in 2019 coverage must sign up before Sept. 20, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2019
News Release: NEWARK N.J. - Two Essex County, New Jersey, men were sentenced today to federal prison terms following their convictions on multiple drug and weapons offenses, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 19, 2019
News Release: ICYMI: Grassley Puts Teeth Back Into Finance Committee.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 19, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY) and Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittee Chairwoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) released the following statement after Planned Parenthood exited the Title X family planning program as a result of the Trump administration's extreme attacks on women's health.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Karina Reyes, 29, of Lawrence, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty in federal court to distributing fentanyl as part of a seven-defendant narcotics case, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Jarvis Moss, a 38 year old resident of Selma, Alabama was sentenced to 30 months of incarceration for possession of a Smith & Wesson, 38 caliber pistol.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Billy J. Williams, U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon, announced today that a local woman has been indicted for a tax fraud scheme targeting Somali refugees in the Portland Metropolitan Area.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 19, 2019
Release: BISMARCK, N.D. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced today that travelers will have the opportunity to enroll in its popular TSA Pre✓® expedited screening program at Bismarck Airport later this month.
