News from August 2020
By DOE Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) selected one additional project to receive approximately $1.5 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development under the second closing of funding opportunity announcement (FOA) DE-FOA-0002001.000001, Crosscutting Research for Coal-Fueled Power Plants.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A Virginia man pleaded guilty in federal court in Columbus today to participating in a racketeering conspiracy in Columbus on behalf of the transnational gang MS-13.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 132,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2020/2021 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert for the District of the Virgin Islands announced that a federal complaint has been filed charging Yamini Potter with eighty counts of wire fraud, two counts of impersonating a federal judge, obstruction of justice in violation of federal law, two counts of acting in assumed character, and one count of grand larceny in violation of Virgin Islands law.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Dale Robert Barnhart, of Alma, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 33 months of incarceration for a firearms charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $800,000 in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to two EDA Economic Development District organizations across Connecticut to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Application Deadline Extended to Sept. 11, and Producers Who Have Approved Applications to Receive Final Payments.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau released the total number of 2020 Census paid temporary workers that earned any pay July 26 through Aug. 1, 2020. The data tables include national totals for all 50 states and the District of Columbia by Census Bureau regional geography. A weekly number of paid temporary workers for Puerto Rico is also available. The weekly release will occur 10 days after the end of the weekly period.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A leader of the Rhode Island Chapter of the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (“Latin Kings") pleaded guilty today to conspiracy charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A Central Falls man investigated in a Project Safe Neighborhoods investigation by the Central Falls Police Department and the Rhode Island FBI Safe Streets Gang Task Force for his connection to a neighborhood-based street gang involved in drug trafficking, firearm violations, assaults, and shootings, was sentenced today to five years in federal prison on drug and firearm charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: ORLANDO, Fla. - Nelson Pablo Yester-Garrido (62, of Cuba) pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute a large amount of high-grade marijuana in the Middle District of Florida. Yester-Garrido faces a maximum penalty of 40 years in federal prison. Sentencing is set for Oct. 22, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams announced today that Robert J. Jesenik, 61, a former chief executive officer of Aequitas Management, LLC and several other Aequitas-owned entities, has been indicted along with three other former company executives for their roles in a fraud and money laundering conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Manhattan Man Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison for Attempting to Provide Material Support to Terrorist Organization.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - A Buckeye, Arizona, man was arrested Sunday on multiple counts of conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute controlled substances. The charges resulted from an investigation led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Southern Arizona Corruption Task Force, significantly assisted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations, NATIVE Task Force in Sells, and the Drug Enforcement Administration.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Registration is now open for the Federal Aviation Administration’s first virtual International Rotorcraft Safety Conference, which will take place Oct. 27 through Oct 29 to explore ways to reduce the national and international helicopter accident rate.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A Central Falls man investigated in a Project Safe Neighborhoods investigation by the Central Falls Police Department and the Rhode Island FBI Safe Streets Gang Task Force for his connection to a neighborhood-based street gang involved in drug trafficking, firearm violations, assaults, and shootings, was sentenced today to five years in federal prison on drug and firearm charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS - Michael Brooks, 55, of St. Louis, was sentenced to 60 months in prison for distribution of actual (pure) methamphetamine. The quantity of actual methamphetamine, for which Brooks is accountable, is at least 50 grams but less than 150 grams.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman announced today that Jaquar Keyshore Latimer, age 43, of Akron, was sentenced by Judge Sara Lioi to 199 months imprisonment after being found guilty during a trial by jury of possession with intent to distribute cocaine and possession of firearms as a convicted felon on Aug. 23, 2019.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $4.1 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to 11 EDA Economic Development District organizations across Georgia to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - Crews with EM Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site cleanup contractor Fluor Idaho recently provided their expertise to a critical sampling effort at the site required under a federal permit.
