News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: SUFFOLK COUNTY, N.Y. - U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division Ray Donovan, Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy D. Sini, New York State Police Superintendent Keith M. Corlett, New York City Police Department Commissioner Dermot Shea, and Suffolk County Police Commissioner Geraldine Hart today announced the indictment of a West Babylon man for an alleged major cocaine trafficking operation.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: EM is continuing to make progress on its. Each month through the end of the year, EM Update will highlight accomplishments in each of the priority groups. This month underlines progress on significant construction project milestones.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: Last night a petroleum spill occurred in a section of an ongoing road construction project in Rocky Mountain National Park on US 36 inside Rocky Mountain National Park. The work is taking place on a 3-mile section of US 36, just west of Bear Lake Road junction to east of Deer Ridge Junction. The road...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Luke Vuittonet, 19, of Pittsford, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa to production of child pornography. The charge carries carry a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in prison, a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison, and a $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: ABINGDON, Va. - Jeremy Mallory, a Big Stone Gap man who was one of 21 defendants charged with conspiring to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Abingdon to 168 months in federal prison, United States Attorney Thomas T. Cullen announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: I am honored to be nominated by President Trump to lead the men and women of the Department of Homeland Security in safeguarding the American people. As the Homeland faces evolving threats from natural disasters, violent opportunists, malign cyber actors, and transnational criminal organizations, the mission of DHS is as critical as ever.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: This week, Acting Secretary Wolf will be traveling to Colorado and Texas. On Wednesday, August, 26th Acting Secretary Wolf will visit Denver, Colorado to discuss critical infrastructure as well as participate in a naturalization ceremony. That evening, the Acting Secretary will then travel to El Paso, ...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, Aug. 25, 2020 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced the availability of assistance for agricultural producers affected by the recent wildfires to help eligible farmers and ranchers reestablish their operations.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, Aug. 25, 2020 – Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the selection of recipients for about $4.1 million in grants and cooperative agreements through its new Office of Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production. These are the first-ever recipients of these grants and cooperative agreements.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: Cheyenne, Wyoming, Aug. 25, 2020 – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Sonny Perdue joined Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon today in a virtual ceremony to sign a Shared Stewardship Agreement between USDA’s Forest Service and the State of Wyoming. The Shared Stewardship Agreement establishes ...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: USDA Begins Issuing Agreements for Round Three (Washington – Aug. 25, 2020) – Yesterday, President Donald J. Trump and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced up to an additional $1 billion for the Farmers to Families Food Box Program. The additional funding allows the program to continue ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: Yesterday, the Department of Justice filed a Statement of Interest in the Supreme Judicial Court in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to help ensure that uniformed service members serving their country away from home, their family members absent with them, and American citizens living overseas have the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: A Russian national made his initial appearance in federal court Monday for his role in a conspiracy to recruit an employee of a company to introduce malicious software into the company’s computer network, extract data from the network, and extort ransom money from the company.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: A North Carolina man was charged by criminal complaint unsealed today for fraudulently seeking more than $414,000 in COVID-19 relief guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) through the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program and the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: The last of four defendants to be convicted for their roles in a dog fighting conspiracy was sentenced today in federal court in Pensacola, Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. (Teva) has been charged with conspiring to fix prices, rig bids, and allocate customers for generic drugs, the Department of Justice announced today.
By Fed Newswire | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday released the minutes of its interest rate meetings from June 22 through July 29, 2020.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of $80,684,142 in grants through the National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) to provide career services, training services, youth services, related assistances, and housing services to eligible migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their dependents.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, OH – The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a default judgment requiring Robert Walton, Jr. – CEO of Hadsell Chemical Processing – to restore $65,842 to the Hadsell Chemical Processing Simple IRA Plan after the Department’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) found that Walton, as plan fiduciary, violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).
By Labor Gazette | Aug 25, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES, CA – The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California has sentenced Mahyar David Yadidi – a San Pedro, California, chiropractor – to prison and ordered him to make restitution for defrauding the International Longshore and Warehouse Union-Pacific Maritime Association (ILWU-PMA) ...
