News from August 2020
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $8.8 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 that have been adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic across Alabama.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: East Beach Road Fire Status. Acres Burned: 84 acres. Cause: Human Caused. Engines: 1. Tenders: 0. Helicopters: 0 assigned but available locally. Hand Crews: 1. Heavy Equipment: 0. Fallers: 0. Containment: 83%. Total personnel: 39. Incident Summary: On Wednesday, July 29 at 4 pm a wildfire was discovered just...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter Strasser announced today that ANIBAL LEONEL LOPEZ-DIAZ (“LOPEZ-DIAZ"), age 38, pled guilty today and was sentenced by Judge Carl Barbier to credit for time served on a one-count indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien in violation of Title 8, United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: TYLER, Texas - U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox announced that two Texas women have pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges in the Eastern District of Texas.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Operation Covid Chatdown resulted in 34 men being arrested in Fresno, California for soliciting sexual acts from individuals they believed were 12- or 13-year-old children but were actually undercover law enforcement operatives.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Springfield man was indicted yesterday with being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession of marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: All three violated restrictions on possession of unapproved electronic devices imposed as part of their probation or supervised release.
By State Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Representatives Michael McCaul, Republican Leader of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Eliot Engel, the Committee’s Chairman, today released the following statement remembering the al-Qaeda-led bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania on August 7, 1998 that claimed the lives of more than 200 people and wounded over 1,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: DOÑA ANA COUNTY, N.M. - On July 31, the U.S. Border Patrol arrested a Mexican national who had previously been deported subsequent to his conviction for multiple aggravated felonies.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: ̶ In carrying out our respective missions, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are committed to protecting the health and safety of those we serve and employ. This is particularly important during the current COVID-19 health crisis.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney John H. Durham and Connecticut Attorney General William Tong today announced that EAN JAMES, D.M.D., has entered into a civil settlement with the federal and state governments in which he will pay more than $148,000 to resolve allegations that he caused overpayments to be paid by the Connecticut Medicaid Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: At the time of arrest, defendant was on supervised release for a prior federal firearm conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Andrew Murray announced today that Travis Justin Stout, 36, of Hickory, N.C., was sentenced to 108 months in prison and three years of supervised release for drug trafficking conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute narcotics on the Dark Web. The sentencing was held on Thursday, August 6, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Richard O’Hara, age 31, of Glen Aubrey, New York had an initial appearance in federal court in Binghamton, New York yesterday on charges that he attempted to coerce and entice a minor to engage in sexual activity that would constitute a crime in New York. The announcement was made by United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and Thomas F. Relford, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. - Fire activity on the Richard Mountain Fire has diminished over the past 24 hours, but dangerous red flag weather conditions remain. Fire crews remain focused on keeping the fire west of Red Creek, south of Clay Basin Road, East of Highway 191, and north of Browns Park Road. Crews will also be reinforcing and securing fire lines to minimize fire spread potential, mopping up any remaining hot spots, and evaluating areas that may require rehabilitation.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: Effective Friday, August 7, campfires or the ignition of wood, briquettes, or any fuel in fire pits, fire pans, and barbeque grills, are banned in Lake Chelan National Recreation Area and the area of North Cascades National Park located in Chelan County. This includes all National Park Service lands...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Senator Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Ranking Member of the Senate...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: Albuquerque, N.M. - Andrew Graham, 40, of Snowmass, Colorado, was sentenced Wednesday, August 5, to 15 months in federal prison for interstate communication of threats. In December, Graham pled guilty in federal court to sending communications threatening to kill an official with the New Mexico Regulation and Licensing Department as well as an attorney with a private law firm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - The former controller of a Chicago insurance company has been arrested on a federal fraud charge for allegedly stealing $5 million in company funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A former resident of Fort Stewart faces up to life in prison on charges of sexually abusing a child.
