News from July 2020
By Interior Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on July 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on July 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
The US Interior Department published a one page notice on July 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Department of Transportation will issue an order today disapproving future schedules that Chinese carriers have filed with the Department over the past several weeks pursuant to our original May 22nd Order. This order is effectively an administrative action. None of the schedules that Chinese ...
By DOT News Wire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, as part of an event celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao announced the Department will create a first-of-its-kind accessibility strategic plan, as the U.S. Department of Transportation works to achieve access and mobility for all in transportation.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: Harkers Island, NC - Tropical Storm Isaias is forecast to be a potential threat to Cape Lookout National Seashore as current projections, though still uncertain, show the storm passing across or very near to the coast of Eastern North Carolina. The forecasts issued later this afternoon and tonight should be more concrete.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: An 11-count indictment was unsealed earlier today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Donal O’Sullivan, his sister Helen O’Sullivan and Padraig Naughton with wire fraud, mail fraud, embezzlement from employee benefit funds, submission of false remittance reports to union benefit funds and conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jacob Taggart, 31, of Niagara Falls, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra, Jr. to being a felon in possession of a firearm. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Nicholas Ferrone, 28, of Utica, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District David G. Larimer to three counts of bank robbery. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel, III, today sentenced Arinze Michael Ozor, age 37, of Bowie, Maryland, a dual citizen of the United States and Nigeria, to 18 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for forgery or false use of a passport, in connection with his use of false passports to open “drop accounts" for a money laundering conspiracy. Judge Hazel also ordered Ozor to pay restitution of $43,000.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: Good morning. I’d like to welcome everyone to Part 2 of the Committee’s hearing on Protecting the Reliability of the U.S.’s Medical Supply Chain During the COVID-19 Pandemic. This is the second hearing to discuss COVID-19’s effect on our nation’s medical supply chain. Two days ago, we heard from the...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
Release: Washington, DC, July 30, 2020 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced the award of nearly $1 million for an innovative pilot program designed to encourage Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants to purchase and consume milk as part of a healthy, balanced diet.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: KINGMAN, Ariz.- The Bureau of Land Management (BLM)’s Kingman Field Office is seeking public input on a draft Environmental Assessment (EA) evaluating impacts from the proposed construction and installation of an electric transmission line in eastern Golden Valley and the west side of Kingman. The Golden Valley Transmission Line Project is designed to help improve reliability, replace aging equipment, and support the future energy needs of customers in Mohave County.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced today that defendant RACHEL E. LIPPS (“LIPPS"), age 39, of Slidell, LA pled guilty, on July 29, 2020, to thirty-three counts of wire fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343 and a single count of aggravated identity theft, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1028A.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A North Carolina woman was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for her role in a large heroin and meth trafficking conspiracy that originated in Sinaloa, Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: Matthew Schneider, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, today marked the 30th anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (“ADA"), which was signed into law by President George H.W. Bush on July 26, 1990. The ADA is a landmark civil rights law...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Columbia, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing firearms and methamphetamine.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Gerry Connolly, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, introduced the Merit Systems Protection Board Empowerment Act of 2020. This legislation would reauthorize the Merit Systems Protect Board (MSPB) for five years beginning in 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - A Somerset, Ky., man, Rodney Scott Phelps, 58, was sentenced to 108 months in federal prison on Tuesday, by U.S. District Judge Claria Horn Boom, for conspiring to commit wire fraud and committing wire fraud by perpetrating a complex Ponzi scheme. Phelps was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $2,437,875.30.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Jason Monast, age 37, of New Bedford, Massachusetts, was sentenced on July 28, 2020, to 25 years’ imprisonment followed by 10 years on supervised release by United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion, for online enticement of a minor and penalties for registered sex offenders.
