News from July 2020
By DOE Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released the Energy Storage Grand Challenge Draft Roadmap and a Request for Information (RFI) seeking stakeholder input on the Draft Roadmap. Announced in January 2020 by U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette, the Energy Storage Grand Challenge ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: An indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Gregory Altieri, the president of LNA Associates, with one count of wire fraud for allegedly running a two-year, $200 million Ponzi scheme based on nonexistent wholesale jewelry deals and false promises of inflated returns. Altieri was arrested today and will be arraigned this morning via video conference before United States Magistrate Judge James Orenstein.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - A team from the Savannah River Site (SRS) that completed cleanup of coal ash-contaminated land a year early and at a savings of more than $8 million has been recognized by DOE with the prestigious Project Management Excellence Award.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $383,350 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Central Nebraska Economic Development District, Chambers, Nebraska, to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - United States Attorney Scott C. Blader announced that Clifford T. Bowe, M.D., a retired Cadott, Wisconsin physician, entered into a settlement agreement to pay $70,000 to resolve civil allegations that he violated the Controlled Substances Act (“CSA") relating to his prescribing of controlled substances, including opioids, outside the usual course of professional practice, among other CSA violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven today sentenced Nelson Israel Alfaro (49, Miami) to 14 months in federal prison for conspiring to defraud the United States, obstruction of justice, and making false statements to federal law enforcement officers. The court also ordered Alfaro to forfeit $117,500 to the United States, the proceeds of his related crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: Texas Man Charged with COVID Relief Fraud.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON - Congressman José E. Serrano (D-NY), Chair of the Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Appropriations Committee's markup of the fiscal year 2021 Commerce-Justice-Science bill.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
Release: 105 Grants Will Support Scientific Innovation
By Interior Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: BURNS, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management will hold an online wild horse and burro adoption event July 14-21, 2020, featuring 19 horses from southeast Oregon.
By State Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement after President Trump signed an executive order ending U.S. preferential treatment for Hong Kong, which means that the United States will treat Hong Kong in the same manner economically as the People’s Republic of China and the United States will suspend or terminate relevant agreements with Hong Kong:
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman announced that 10 individuals were arrested and charged in a multi-count indictment today for their involvement in a conspiracy to distribute and possess crack cocaine, cocaine and oxycodone throughout the Elyria, Ohio area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: In Waco today, a federal grand jury indicted 22-year-old Cecily Aguilar in connection with the disappearance of U.S. Army Specialist Vanessa Guillen, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash, FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division, and U.S. Army Criminal Investigative Command (USACID) Special Agent in Charge Vanessa Neff at Fort Hood.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Henderson man was sentenced today to 168 months in prison for drug conspiracy and distribution offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. sentenced John Howard Johnson, 65, to 130 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release, in connection with a series of armed bank robberies he committed in 2019, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. In addition to the prison term, Judge Cogburn also ordered Johnson to pay $8,569 as restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: FORT WAYNE - Juan Salas, age 31, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, was sentenced before U.S. District Court Judge Holly A. Brady following his plea of guilty to distributing fentanyl, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A North Carolina man was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for possessing child pornography.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) released the following statement after the House Committee on Appropriations advanced the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD) bill with a newly-added provision...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA - The last remaining defendant indicted in a $5 million fraud against the City of Lynn Haven has pled guilty to a charge stemming from the Hurricane Michael-related scheme. Lawrence Keefe, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced that David Wayne Horton...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: BOISE - Nathaniel Michael West, 23, of Kimberly, Idaho, pleaded guilty to mailing threatening communications, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today. West was indicted by a federal grand jury in Boise on Jan. 14, 2020. Sentencing is set for October 7, 2020 before U.S. District Judge Winmill at the federal courthouse in Boise.
