News from August 2020
By USDA Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Washington - United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development Bette Brand today announced that USDA is implementing the OneRD Guarantee Loan Initiative, releasing new information on rates and terms that will help lenders apply for loan guarantees to support rural businesses, infrastructure and community facilities and increase private investments in rural America.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Two North Carolina Tax Preparers Indicted for False Returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Steven M. Boice, age 30, was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for distributing furanyl fentanyl that caused an overdose death in Saratoga County in February 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Yang Ban Corporation, a company established in the British Virgin Islands in 2014 that operated in South East Asia pleaded guilty today to conspiring to launder monetary instruments in connection with evading sanctions on North Korea and deceiving correspondent banks into processing U.S. dollar transactions. The company will pay a financial penalty totaling $673,714.04.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Natchitoches, LA - Over the weekend, Cane River Creole National Historical Park staff worked to clean and stabilize the park grounds after Hurricane Laura caused minimal to moderate damage throughout the park last Thursday. Initial clean-up efforts included moving downed limbs and debris to a consolidated area and pumping water out from the wood screw press located at the Magnolia Plantation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Aug. 31, 2020 - Elique Camacho, 23, of Clarksville, Tennessee, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to 10 years in prison for possessing a firearm after being convicted of a crime of domestic violence, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Suzanne Turner Named Special Agent in Charge of the San Diego Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Stanley Elianor, a member of the Folk Nation Street gang, was arrested today in connection with an indictment returned on Aug. 27, 2020 charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition while having previously been convicted of a crime punishable by a term of imprisonment exceeding one year. Elianor will be arraigned this afternoon via teleconference by United States Magistrate Judge Ramon E. Reyes, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Robert J. Chaires, age 40, of Schenectady, New York, pled guilty today to twice distributing crack cocaine in 2017.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Cincinnati - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) for Nationwide Low-Level Mixed Low-Level Waste Treatment Services. The RFP will be issued on a full-and-open, unrestricted basis. It is DOE’s intent to issue one or more Basic Ordering Agreements (BOAs) as a result of this RFP.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: The Red Cliffs Recreation Area of the Bureau of Land Management’s Red Cliffs National Conservation Area is temporarily closed due to a water line leak, but will reopen Sept. 4 for the Labor Day weekend.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - An Overland Park woman who owned massage parlors in Olathe and Leawood pleaded guilty today to a federal interstate prostitution charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Darling Antonio Ordenana-Rosales, 24, an illegal alien from Nicaragua, pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to the crime of fraud regarding visas, permits, or other immigration document, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Gilbert Trill, Acting Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Cody Alan Grapes, of Riverton, West Virginia, is facing drug and firearms charges, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
Release: MIDLAND, Texas - Officers with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at Midland International Air & Space Port detected two firearms today, during X-ray screening of traveler and airport employee belongings at the security checkpoints.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Joshua Derek Raines, of Elkins, West Virginia, is facing drug and firearms charges, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: More than 250 high school teachers across the nation participated in certification training to become provisional instructors in the First Aid for Severe Trauma (FAST)TM program funded by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T). The training was led by Dr. Craig...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Engineering and Construction Firm Resolves False Claims Act Allegations and Other Civil Claims.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today called on the Trump administration to mobilize the resources of the federal government to ensure health care providers in Oregon and across the country have the supplies they need to conduct COVID-19 tests at capacity.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $7.2 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to capitalize and administer Revolving Loan Funds (RLFs) that will provide critical gap financing to small businesses and entrepreneurs adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic across Louisiana.
