News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Richmond man was sentenced today to over 12 years in prison for possession with intent to distribute cocaine.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $1.9 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 Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - The U.S. Marshals are searching for six individuals who are wanted in a drug conspiracy operation that spanned Ohio and West Virginia, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Walter Edward Bohl, 64, of Pascagoula, pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Halil S. Ozerden, to knowingly possessing a firearm after having been committed to a mental institution, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Kurt Thielhorn, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: HAMMOND-Debra McCall, 46, of Westville, Indiana was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Theresa L. Springmann upon her guilty plea to bank fraud and filing a false tax return, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal grand jury has charged Diamondo Valdez Butler, 39, of Columbus, with dealing fentanyl that resulted in an overdose death. Butler was arrested last night by authorities with the DEA and Gahanna Division of Police.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a fifth superseding indictment charging George Moses, 50, and Janis White, 58, both of Rochester, NY, with additional charges. Moses is facing additional charges of conspiracy to commit mail and...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a fifth superseding indictment charging George Moses, 50, and Janis White, 58, both of Rochester, NY, with additional charges. Moses is facing additional charges of conspiracy to commit mail and...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: Seventeen Year-Old Shot With AR-Style Rifle.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment late Wednesday afternoon charging Timothy Andrew Nemeckay, 60, of Park City, Utah, with securities fraud, making false statements to the Security Exchange Commission (SEC), wire fraud, and money laundering in connection with an alleged fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn announced that Robert Vincent Allen, a resident of Pennsylvania, has pleaded guilty to the attempted destruction of an aircraft. Allen appeared remotely, and is free on bond. The Denver Division of the FBI joined in today’s announcement.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: Instead of piling into vans and hitting the road, more than 30 attendees from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM) logged into WebEx on June 9-11 for a virtual exploration of USACE North Atlantic Division (NAD) Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP) sites.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Yesterday, Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney sent a memorandum to Members of the Committee on Oversight and Reform providing an update on the status of the Committee’s investigations related to its April 15, 2019, subpoena to the President’s accounting firm, Mazars USA LLP, following the Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. Mazars USA, LLP.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK, SD - Rangers at Wind Cave National Park will be leading programs this fall to listen for the bugle of the Rocky Mountain elk. The elk high-pitched whistle heralds the arrival of fall and the elk mating season.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: ELY, Nev. - On or about Aug. 28, the Bureau of Land Management, Ely District Office, Bristlecone Field Office, will begin an emergency wild horse gather on the Jakes Wash Herd Area (HA) located about 30 miles west of Ely in White Pine County, Nevada. The action is needed due to lack of water and declining health of the wild horses associated with herd overpopulation.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: Strong City, Kansas - Come see the 15th annual quilt display at the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve over the Labor Day weekend, September 5th, 6th, and 7th. This year’s “virtual display" will feature quilts from the past in a photographic exhibit in the barn. Two fabric quilts will be displayed;...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Philip R. Bartlett, Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Office of the United States Postal Inspection Service (“USPIS"), announced today that EVA CHRISTINE RODRIGUEZ and SERGIO LORENZO RODRIGUEZ, mother and son...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: Scranton, Pa. - Steamtown National Historic Site (NHS) continues to follow guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities. The National Park Service (NPS) is working servicewide with federal, state, and local public health authorities to closely monitor the COVID-19 pandemic and using a phased approach to increase access on a park-by-park basis.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Trump Administration announced today $602,923 in tribal heritage grants for 13 preservation projects that assist Indian Tribes, Alaskan Natives, and Native Hawaiian organizations in protecting and promoting their unique cultural heritage and traditions.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced the opening of the Economic Development Administration’s (EDA) STEM Talent Challenge, which aims to support organizations’ efforts to boost local science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) talent and workforce development models across the nation’s growing innovation economies.
