News from July 2020
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: Great Smoky Mountains National Park is pleased to announce that Steve Spanyer was chosen as the 2019 Employee of the Year. Recognition of the Employee of the Year has been a tradition in the Smokies since 1984. Although the format of this recognition has changed over time, the park is pleased to continue...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A federal grand jury today indicted a Somerset County, New Jersey, man for allegedly distributing and possessing images of child sexual abuse, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
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 Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: FREDERICKSBURG, VA - Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park is increasing visitor services available at key locations in the park. The National Park...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: The Census Bureau today released new data from the experimental Household Pulse Survey. The Household Pulse Survey is the result of an effort by the Census Bureau and other federal statistical agencies to document temporal trends in how individuals are experiencing business curtailment and closures, stay-at-home orders, school closures, changes in the availability of consumer goods and consumer patterns, and other abrupt and significant changes to American life.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - 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) today condemned the Trump administration for finalizing a rule to gut the environmental review process under...
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 $1.2 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the PPEP Microbusiness and Housing Development Corporation, Tucson, Arizona, to capitalize and administer a Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) that will provide critical gap financing to small businesses and entrepreneurs in Arizona adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA - Three Alachua County men, each with multiple prior felony convictions, were sentenced in late June, 2020, to federal prison terms ranging from 5 to 17 years followed by supervised release for firearm and drug offenses. United States Attorney Lawrence Keefe for the Northern District of Florida announced the sentences.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that two more defendants have been charged federally in two separate criminal complaints arising from May 30, 2020, violent protests held in the City of Rochester. SHAKELL SANKS, 26, and JAVON HARDY, 24, both of Rochester, NY, have been charged with arson and each face a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 20 years, and a $250,000 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: Superintendent Brian Carlstrom has announced that Leslie Reynolds has been selected as the Deputy Superintendent of Cape Cod National Seashore.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Goldsboro man was sentenced today to 240 months in prison for conspiring to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute fifty (50) grams or more of methamphetamine and distributing fifty (50) grams or more of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: Jackson, MS - The U.S. Marshals are requesting assistance from the public in locating a Mendenhall man wanted by the Simpson County Sheriff’s Department on two counts of murder and multiple counts of armed robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Rhode Island man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with a conspiracy to launder funds derived from Business Email Compromise (BEC) fraud schemes, including one that targeted a Dorchester, Mass. real estate attorney.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MARK FELNER, 31, of Clinton, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to one count of receipt of child pornography stemming from his interactions with an underage victim in 2015 and 2016.
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 $10.9 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 that have been adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic across Idaho.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ranking Republican Rob Bishop (R-Utah) released the following statement on the Council on Environmental Quality's (CEQ) final rule to comprehensively update and modernize National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations for the first time in over 40 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Three members of allied Jersey City gangs were charged with the July 7, 2020, shooting of a 12-year old child, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: Seattle - A former Seattle resident, who most recently resided in Tacoma, was arrested July 14, 2020, on a federal arson charge for setting fire to the outside of the Seattle Police East Precinct during the occupied protest known as ‘CHOP’, announced U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran. ISAIAH THOMAS WILLOUGHBY, 35, will make his initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Seattle at 2:30 p.m. today.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON - Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, delivered the following remarks at the Committee's markup of the fiscal year 2021 Homeland Security bill.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON - Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, delivered the following remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the Committee's markup of the fiscal year 2021 Financial Services and General Government bill.
