News from April 2020
By DOE Newswire | Apr 2, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a solicitation to immediately make 30 million barrels of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve’s (SPR’s) oil storage capacity available to U.S. oil producers that are struggling with catastrophic financial losses due to the combined impacts ...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 2, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Across the country, children have shifted to virtual learning which results in significantly more time spent online. In order to protect them, the Child Exploitation Investigations Unit at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) reminds families that the agency has a variety of tools available on its iGuardian webpage to keep children safe while using the internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Jacob Grijalva, 30, of Silver City, New Mexico pleaded guilty in federal court in Las Cruces, New Mexico on April 1 to using a cellular telephone in the commission of murder-for-hire and obstruction of justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Salvadoran national pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to illegally reentering the United States after being deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2020
News Release: Over $14 Million Available to Wisconsin.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 2, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA - Today, House Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) questioned why the Department of Labor has yet to distribute emergency administrative funding to help states process a record-breaking number of applications for unemployment compensation.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2020
News Release: $1.3 million Available to Montana. BILLINGS - The Department of Justice this week announced that it is making $850 million available to help public safety agencies respond to the challenges posed by the outbreak of COVID-19. The Coronavirus Emergency Supplemental Funding program, authorized by the recent...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2020
News Release: $8,823,415 available to Puerto Rico. SAN JUAN, P.R. - The Department of Justice today announced that it is making $850 million available to help public safety agencies respond to the challenges posed by the outbreak of COVID-19. The Coronavirus Emergency Supplemental Funding program, authorized by the...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor has selected Amanda Edens as its new deputy assistant secretary for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Edens formerly served as the director of OSHA’s Directorate of Technical Support & Emergency Management (DTSEM) since 2012.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 1, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Government Operations Subcommittee Chairman Gerry E. Connolly, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Subcommittee Chairman Jamie Raskin, Committee Member Eleanor Holmes Norton, and Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton sent a letter to the General Services Administration (GSA) demanding the GSA cease internal plans and operations to aid the Trump Administration’s plan to abolish the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and move its functions to GSA.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 1, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Rep. Gregorio Sablan (D-CNMI) sent a letter this morning to Pete Gaynor, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, seeking more information on the administration’s COVID-19 response plans in U.S. territories, where weak economies and recent natural disasters are now putting hundreds of thousands of Americans at particular risk.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), working with the U.S. Department of State, brought home a total of 114 United States citizens on the return leg of a removal flight via ICE Air Operations yesterday. U.S. citizens occupied the Space Available (“Space A") seats on flights to the United States from El Salvador.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 1, 2020
News Release: Due to continued circumstances related to COVID-19 and newly-issued guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security have determined to extend the temporary postponement of Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) hearings scheduled through Friday, ...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 1, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C., April 1, 2020 – To further the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) work on the Agriculture Innovation Agenda (AIA), USDA today announced it is seeking public and private sector input on the most important innovation opportunities to be addressed in the near and long term. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2020
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that it has filed a lawsuit alleging that the co-owners and managers of rental properties in Russellville, Kentucky, violated the Fair Housing Act by subjecting female tenants to sexual harassment and retaliation.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2020
News Release: The Department of Justice today announced that it is making $850 million available to help public safety agencies respond to the challenges posed by the outbreak of COVID-19. The Coronavirus Emergency Supplemental Funding program, authorized by the recent stimulus legislation signed by President Trump, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2020
News Release: Today, a federal district court in Washington, D.C., concluded that the Antitrust Division’s resolution of its challenge to the merger between T-Mobile and Sprint was in the public interest and entered the proposed final judgment following an extensive Tunney Act process. This order gives effect to the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2020
News Release: Today Hasher Jallal Taheb, 23, of Cumming, Georgia, has pleaded guilty to a charge of attempting to destroy, by fire or an explosive, a building owned by or leased to the United States. Taleb had planned an attack on the White House using weapons and explosives. As part of the plea agreement, the defendant and the government agreed that the defendant should receive a 15-year sentence of imprisonment.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 1, 2020
News Release: LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP, NJ – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited BWay Corp. – doing business as Mauser Packaging Solutions – for workplace safety and health hazards after an employee suffered an amputation on Sept. 26, 2019, at the Lawrence Township, New Jersey, facility. The company faces $151,329 in penalties.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 1, 2020
News Release: ORLANDO, FL – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Skanska-Granite-Lane – a joint venture operating as SGL Constructors – for exposing employees to safety hazards at the I-4 Ultimate Improvement Project worksite in Orlando, Florida. One worker suffered fatal injuries and another was hospitalized. The contractor faces $53,976 in penalties.
