News from July 2020
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $400,000 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Associated Governments of Northwest Colorado, Grand Junction, Colorado, to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: Washington - Acosta Inc., with headquarters in Jacksonville, Fla., has posted a $100,000 surety bond with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: HAMMOND - Jessica Guska (a/k/a Jessica Irvine, Jessica Brewer, Jessica Carrington and Jessica Hoggard), 42, Cedar Lake, Indiana was charged by way of a 4 count indictment for wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - CWD, LLC, which operates under the name Centric Parts, a Delaware corporation headquartered in Carson, and its affiliates have agreed to pay $8 million to the United States to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act and the Tariff Act of 1930 by knowingly underpaying customs duties owed to the United States on imported brake pads.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau is sending this week to an estimated 34.3 million households. This will be the final mailing before census takers begin visiting nonresponding households across the nation in mid-August. Responding now minimizes the need for census takers to visit homes to collect responses in person.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C., July 22, 2020) - As part of its commitment to ensuring fair and competitive markets for the livestock, meat and poultry industries, today the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released a Boxed Beef and Fed Cattle Price Spread Investigation Report on its ongoing boxed beef and fed cattle price spread investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: Today, Attorney General William P. Barr joined President Donald J. Trump to announce the expansion of Operation Legend to Chicago and Albuquerque. Operation Legend is a sustained, systematic and coordinated law enforcement initiative in which federal law enforcement agencies work in conjunction with...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - A federal grand jury sitting in Austin has returned a six-count indictment against a 31-year-old paralegal specialist with the U.S. Attorney’s Office (USAO) for the Western District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick of the Southern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a federal indictment charging WESLEY ROBERT WARREN, 22, with robbery and assault on the White Earth Indian Reservation. WARREN made his initial appearance earlier today before Magistrate Judge Jon T. Huseby in U.S. District Court in Bemidji, Minnesota.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $2.9 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 across Utah that have been adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo announced that the Health Subcommittee will hold a fully remote legislative hearing on Wednesday, July 29, at 10 a.m. (EDT). The hearing is entitled, “Improving Access to Care: Legislation to Reauthorize Key Public Health Programs."
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced that U.S. District Judge John W. deGravelles sentenced Justin Williams, age 31, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to 110 months in federal prison following his convictions for distribution of heroin, possession with the intent to distribute heroin, possession...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A former Raytheon systems engineer was sentenced today for illegally retaining national defense information. The defendant retained 31,000 pages of information that was marked as classified, some of which pertained to U.S. missile defense and was classified at the SECRET level, and altered or obliterated the classification markings on documents.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) wrote to Federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - Two members of the violent transnational criminal gang known as “La Mara Salvatrucha" or “MS-13" pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday to RICO conspiracy and admitted to their participation in the July 2018 murder of a teenage boy in Lynn.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: ELY, Nev. - On or around July 24, the Bureau of Land Management, Ely District Office, Bristlecone Field Office, will begin an emergency wild horse gather on the Triple B and Maverick-Medicine Herd Management Areas (HMAs) located about 75 miles northwest of Ely in Elko and White Pine counties, Nevada. The action is needed due to lack of water and declining health of the wild horses associated with herd overpopulation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on July 21, 2020, a federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment against Darrin S. McElhatton (age: 40) of Appleton, Wisconsin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: FBI Media Alert: FBI Announces Reward of up to $25,000 in Jacqueline Vigil Homicide as Part of Operation Legend Expansion.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Michael Marchese, age 28, of Swoyersville, Pennsylvania, was indicted on July 21, 2020, by a federal grand jury for drug trafficking and firearms offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - Two members of the violent transnational criminal gang known as “La Mara Salvatrucha" or “MS-13" pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday to RICO conspiracy and admitted to their participation in the July 2018 murder of a teenage boy in Lynn.
