News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that today Ariel Quiros, 64, of Key Biscayne, Florida, pleaded guilty before Chief Judge Geoffrey W. Crawford in United States District Court in Burlington to three felony charges in connection with his involvement in the Jay Peak Biomedical Research Park EB-5 investment project, also called the AnC Vermont project.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Brandon Spann was sentenced today to 30 months in prison after earlier pleading guilty to a federal cyberstalking charge.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: DELAWARE - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, welcomed Rob Wallace, Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks at the U.S. Department of the Interior, to Delaware to visit the First State National Historical Park and Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: A Grapevine child sexual predator was sentenced today to 20 years in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A federal grand jury in Providence today returned indictments charging two Rhode Island men in separate Project Safe Childhood child sex exploitation investigations, announced United States Attorney Aaron L. Weisman and Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Boston Division Joseph R. Bonavolonta.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) was joined this week by government, industry and international partners for Cyber Storm VII, a national cyber exercise designed to simulate response to a cyber crisis impacting the nation’s critical infrastructure. The exercise...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Bourne man was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury on charges of receipt and possession of child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: *. The road between Mammoth Hot Springs and Norris Junction is temporarily CLOSED due to a major water main break in Mammoth Hot Springs. *. The water main break is located under the road between the Mammoth Hot Springs Terraces and the YCC Camp. This water main provides all potable water to the Mammoth...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
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, released the following statement in response to the latest report on testing and demographic data associated with COVID-19 which the Trump Administration submitted to Congress yesterday as required by the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: For the U.S. Department of Defense’s Tactical Explosive Detection Dogs Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: DAYTON - A Dayton man was sentenced via video conference in federal court today to 120 months in prison for shooting a United States Postal Service mail carrier.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: St. Louis - Dariyon Martin, 22, of St. Louis, Missouri, was charged by a federal complaint with being a felon in possession of a firearm, robbery, and brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and Congressman Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (VA-03), Chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor, urged the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to use its full authority to provide healthy meals to students for the duration of the school year.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: Operation Legend Expanded to Indianapolis. Today, the expansion of Operation Legend was announced in Indianapolis. Operation Legend is a sustained, systematic and coordinated law enforcement initiative in which federal law enforcement agencies work in conjunction with state and local law enforcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Bourne man was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury on charges of receipt and possession of child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: A new design for light-emitting diodes (LEDs) developed by a team including scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) may hold the key to overcoming a long-standing limitation in the light sources’ efficiency. The concept, demonstrated with microscopic LEDs in the lab, achieves...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Commissioner Brenda Burman issues the following statement regarding recent Reclamation actions to improve California water supply reliability...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: Today, Federal Judge Orders Blair Detained Pending Trial; Multiple Firearms and High-Capacity Magazines Seized.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Timothy Juston Wimer, of Old Fields, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 106 months of incarceration for drug distribution and firearms charges, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $3 million grant to Klamath Community College, Klamath Falls, Oregon, to build an on-campus Apprenticeship and Industrial Trades Center. The EDA grant, to be matched with $3.4 million in state funding, is expected to create 166 jobs and generate $677,000 in private investment.
