News from August 2020
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) issued the following statement marking the 85th anniversary of the enactment of the Social Security Act...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, and the top Democrats from four Congressional committees with jurisdiction over federal elections and the Postal Service - Chairperson Zoe Lofgren of the Committee on House Administration, Ranking Member Amy...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert for the District of the Virgin Islands announced today that Violet Anne Golden, the former chairperson of the Virgin Islands Casino Control Commission, was sentenced to 24 months in prison following an earlier guilty plea to Theft of Government Funds and Failing to File an Income Tax Return. Golden was also ordered to pay restitution.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - On Aug. 12, U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary David Bernhardt announced the Third Power Plant at Grand Coulee Dam would be renamed as the “Nathaniel ‘Nat’ Washington Power Plant," in honor of the father-son duo who were instrumental in the conception, construction and implementation of operations at the dam.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: DOÑA ANA COUNTY, N.M. - On Friday, August 7, Border Patrol agents apprehended Luis Arias-Yanez, 54, a previously deported felon residing illegally in Anthony, New Mexico.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: The National Park Service will be celebrating its 104th birthday this August! Join us on August 22nd and August 23rd as we recognize the wonderful National Parks in Arizona and our amazing partners! While many of us may not be able to travel at this time, we have turned our biennial celebration into a virtual event on Facebook!.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn today announced that Nicholas Meyers, age 26, of Denver, was sentenced to serve 136 months (over 11 years) in federal prison followed by 5 years on supervised release for distribution of methamphetamine and being a felon in possession of a firearm. The Denver ATF joined in today’s announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A complaint was unsealed today charging Fernando Madrigal with the murder of a 15 year-old, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson, FBI Deputy Special Agent in Charge Craig D. Fair, and San Francisco Police Chief William Scott. Additional facts regarding the investigation and charges can be found here.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - An attorney was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for his role in an international securities fraud scheme that sought to generate $15 million in fraudulent proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman announced today that a federal grand jury sitting in Cleveland has returned a two-count indictment charging Larese Kenneth Allen, Sr., 25 of Youngstown with making a bomb threat and as a felon in possession of a firearm.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: As the U.S. Census Bureau continues to monitor the impacts COVID-19 has on 2020 Census operations, changes to operations are being deployed to ensure the safety of staff and the public while maximizing the number of households that respond on their own to the 2020 Census.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: Victim In 2019 Shooting Was Innocent Bystander In Gang Turf War.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: Fresno, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation announces a 30-day public comment period for the transfer of operation, maintenance, and replacement activities related to the Madera Canal and other associated works to the Madera-Chowchilla Water & Power Authority for thirty-five years.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: Albuquerque, N.M. - On Thursday, August 6, agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Violent Crime Task Force (VCTF) arrested David Martinez and Jean Madrid, both of Albuquerque.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Lowell man was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in connection with advertising the sale of a firearm on Snapchat.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced an award of $5.1 million to the Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. (EPRI) to develop modular-in-chamber electron beam welding capability for a future domestic advanced reactor demonstration project. This project has a total value of approximately $6.5 million of which DOE will provide approximately $5.1 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: The Justice Department and the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia today announced the successful disruption of a multimillion dollar fuel shipment by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a designated foreign terrorist organization that was bound for Venezuela. These actions represent the government’s largest-ever seizure of fuel shipments from Iran.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Keswick man pleaded guilty today to his role in producing images of child sexual abuse and attempting to meet a minor for sex.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - New billboards at several Kansas City, Missouri, locations will encourage the community to take action to reduce violent crime as part of Operation LeGend.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: CINCINNATI - Dr. Saad Sakkal, 72, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to 240 months in prison for illegally distributing and dispensing controlled substances to multiple patients, including drugs that led to the death of one victim in 2016. Sakkal was practicing at Lindenwald Medical Association, Inc. in Hamilton.
