News from July 2020
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON - Congressman Mike Quigley (D-IL), Chair of the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Appropriations Committee's markup of the fiscal year 2021 Financial Services and General Government bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: Orlando, Florida -U.S. District Judge Wendy W. Berger has sentenced Mark Goolsby to two years in federal prison for filing a false claim for a tax refund. The court also ordered Goolsby to pay $420,288 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $649,000 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Feed the Hunger Foundation to capitalize and administer a Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) that will provide critical gap financing to small businesses and entrepreneurs in Hawaii adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Fayetteville man was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for Cocaine Base (Crack), Marijuana, and Firearm crimes.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $13.1 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 Iowa.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The following are opening remarks, as prepared for delivery, from Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), and Chair of the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Grace F. Napolitano (D-CA) during today’s markup of the Water Resources Development Act of 2020.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: Sitka National Historical Park will be hosting a B.A.R.K. Ranger and dog walker appreciation event on Saturday, July 18, 2020 at 2 pm. The event will take place on the front lawn of the Visitor Center near the lower parking lot.
By State Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
Release: Section 620M of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (also referred to as the “State Leahy law") states, in pertinent part...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Kansas building contractor was sentenced Wednesday to a year and a day in prison and fined $25,000 for conspiring to deprive the city of Lawrence of sales tax revenues in connection with the development of a seven-story hotel adjacent to the University of Kansas campus. After completing his sentence, the defendant will serve three years on supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - July 15, 2020 - A Nashville man with a history of impersonating a law enforcement officer and firefighter is now facing federal charges, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA - In response to President Trump’s concerning tweets directing the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) to examine the tax-exempt status of certain universities and school systems, House Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) called on both the Treasury Inspector General for...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - A former Chicago Police officer was sentenced today to nearly six years in federal prison for fraudulently obtaining search warrants and stealing cash and drugs from properties he searched.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: Washington - As part of its commitment to ensuring fair and competitive markets for the livestock, meat and poultry industries, July 2, 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued a complaint against James F. Tollett, Jr., doing business as Tollett Farms (Tollett) of Dayton, Tenn., for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Jeffrey Lyons, 59, of Lancaster, PA was sentenced to fourteen years in prison, and ordered to pay restitution of $53 million to Fulton Bank and $550,000 to the IRS, by Judge Jeffrey L. Schmehl for orchestrating a massive bank fraud scheme over many years.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) today released the following statement regarding the final rule to modernize outdated National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations, as announced by White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) Chairman Mary B. Neumayr...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: BAR HARBOR, MAINE - The National Park Service (NPS) is excited to announce that the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) transferred the Bass Harbor Head Light Station from the U.S. Coast Guard to Acadia National Park on July 8, 2020. Constructed in 1858, the light station was transferred at no...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Catherine Stuckey, 27, of Woodland Hills, pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: RICHMOND - A former corrections officer with the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Federal Correctional Institution in Petersburg was sentenced yesterday to 54 months in prison for willfully making false statements to federal agents during a federal criminal civil rights investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Titus J. Miller, age 27, of Lincoln, Nebraska, entered a plea of guilty today in federal court in Lincoln before United States Magistrate Judge Cheryl R. Zwart for producing child pornography. Miller admitted to the sexual exploitation of five children...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A registered sex offender convicted in Rhode Island state court in 2014 for possessing child pornography was arrested today by members of the Rhode Island State Police Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force and made an initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Providence on a federal criminal complaint charging him with distributing and possessing child pornography.