News from July 2020
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 20, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.5 million grant to the American Samoa Shipyard Services Authority, Pago Pago, American Samoa, to support the acquisition of equipment, machinery, and tools needed to modernize the Shipyard Service Facility located in a Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Opportunity Zone.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2020
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Tuesday, July 14, 2020, Christopher Dean Miers, a 33-year-old former United States Marine Corps recruiter from Missouri, was sentenced to 84 months in prison after pleading guilty to child pornography charges, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. Miers was also ordered to serve five years of supervised release after he completes his prison sentence. There is no parole in the federal system.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 20, 2020
Release: Beginning in late September 2020, importers will be able to apply for and receive fresh fruit and vegetable import permits (PPQ 587) through APHIS eFile, APHIS’ new online permitting system. APHIS eFile will offer a simple and easy way to apply for and receive your fresh fruit and vegetable import permits, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2020
News Release: The Presidential Task Force on Missing and Murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives announced 12 Tribal consultations to occur virtually across the United States in the coming months.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A Woodland resident has been charged by indictment with distribution of fentanyl resulting in an overdose death and with distributing fentanyl on two separate dates after the overdose death, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 20, 2020
Release: DETROIT - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers stop a female passenger from bringing a loaded firearm through a security checkpoint at Detroit Metropolitan Airport (DTW) checkpoint Thursday.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 20, 2020
News Release: Put-in-Bay, Ohio-The National Park Service (NPS) is preparing an Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial (Park) for a project to repair and replace the north and south side concrete seawalls. Years of wave action, ice loading, and geological processes have...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2020
News Release: Defendant Allegedly Obtained Over $17 Million in Venture Capital For AI Video Comprehension Technology By Making False And Misleading Statements.
By State Newswire | Jul 20, 2020
News Release: Dear Mr. President: We write with significant concerns regarding the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) continued malicious cyber activity targeting the United States. For many years, the PRC has perpetrated cyber-attacks on Americans, our financial institutions, and even the U.S. government itself.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 20, 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 Appalachian Council of Governments, Greenville, South Carolina, to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - Eighteen individuals have been charged in federal court with conspiring to sell heroin or fentanyl-laced heroin on the Northwest Side of Chicago.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2020
News Release: HAMMOND- Luis Colunga, 27, of Hobart, Indiana, was sentenced, on July 17, 2020, by U.S. District Court Judge Philip P. Simon to 204 months in prison following his guilty plea to conspiracy to participate in racketeering activity as a member of the Latin Dragons Nation street gang, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2020
News Release: Lebanese National Sentenced to 42 Months in Prison for Illegally Exporting Drone Parts and Technology.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 20, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Brenda Burman announces the selection of Rob Manning, former Pentagon spokesperson, as Reclamation’s chief of Public Affairs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty plea of WAYNE ROBERT DAHL, JR., 51, to one count of mail fraud. DAHL entered his guilty plea today before Chief Judge John R. Tunheim in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Christopher Brown, 40, of Alexander, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with production of child pornography. The charge carries a minimum penalty of 15 years in prison, a maximum penalty of 30 years, imprisonment and a $250,000 fine.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 19, 2020
News Release: Last evening, Portland saw additional violence with violent anarchists assaulting federal officers and damaging federal property. This siege, sustained by DHS law enforcement agents continuously for 50 days, consists of multiple federal crimes. Last night alone, violent anarchists engaged in the following ...
By Labor Gazette | Jul 19, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Last week, the U.S. Department of Labor took a range of actions to aid American workers and employers as our nation combats the coronavirus pandemic.
By Labor Gazette | Jul 19, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Last week, the U.S. Department of Labor took a range of actions to aid American workers and employers as our nation combats the coronavirus pandemic.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 19, 2020
News Release: Murfreesboro, TN - Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, Stones River National Battlefield is increasing recreational access. 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.
