News from July 2020
By DOE Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: The Manhattan Project was an unprecedented, top-secret research and development program created during World War II to develop an atomic weapon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A California couple pleaded guilty today to conspiracy charges in connection with agreeing to pay $250,000 to secure the fraudulent admission of their daughter to the University of Southern California (USC) as a purported athletic recruit.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON -Rep. Xochitl Torres Small of New Mexico was appointed to the General Farm Commodities and Risk Management subcommittee and the Biotechnology, Horticulture and Research subcommittee of the House Agriculture Committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Micah Avery, 26, of Washington, D.C., was indicted today in federal court on charges of destruction of federal property for spray-painting the Lincoln Memorial last month, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Michael R. Sherwin and Acting Chief of the United States Park Police (USPP) Gregory T. Monahan.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A former leader of the white supremacist group Atomwaffen Division pleaded guilty today to charges related to his role in a conspiracy that conducted multiple swatting events targeting journalists, a Virginia university, a historic Virginia church, and a former cabinet official.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: San Antonio Tax Preparer Indicted for False Returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Brandon Smith, 30, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to twelve years in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, by United States District Court Judge C. Darnell Jones.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Washington, D.C. man was sentenced today to one year in prison for aiding and abetting the illegal straw purchase of five firearms.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON - Congressman David Price (D-NC), Chair of the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Appropriations Committee's markup of the fiscal year 2021 Transportation-Housing and Urban Development bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and money laundering, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $257,128 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Panhandle Area Development District, Scottsbluff, Nebraska, to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation is launching a new prize competition that is seeking crowdsourced ideas that will lead to innovative sediment removal solutions for water infrastructure. The "Guardians of the Reservoir" challenge seeks ideas to remove or transport the amount of sediment building...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House Appropriations Committee today released its reports accompanying the fiscal year 2021 Homeland Security and Financial Services and General Government appropriations bills.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) will fund 49 new Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) research and development projects across 23 states, totaling nearly $53.4 million in funding.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON - Congressman Pete Visclosky (IN-01), Chair of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Appropriations Committee's markup of the fiscal year 2021 Defense bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: Previously convicted in various assault, firearm, drug and financial crimes cases.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: ROCKFORD - Six Rockford residents were sentenced Monday in federal court by U.S. District Judge Matthew F. Kennelly on wire fraud or money laundering charges.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security, sent letters to Apple and Google after the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) confirmed that mobile applications developed, operated, or owned by foreign entities, including China and Russia, could potentially pose a national security risk to American citizens and the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: Florence, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr., announced today that Darell Levon Curry, a/k/a “Rell," 31, of Myrtle Beach, was sentenced via videoconference to 12 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, cocaine, heroin...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Christopher Brown, 39, of Stewartstown, pleaded guilty in federal court to possession of fentanyl with intent to distribute, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
