News from July 2020
By Commerce News Now | Jul 10, 2020
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on July 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today fined Concesionaria Vuela Compañía de Aviación (Volaris) $70,000 for violating a federal statute and the Department’s rule prohibiting long tarmac delays. The airline was also ordered to cease and desist from future similar violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza has sentenced James Edward Groover, II (34, Antwerp, Ohio) to 15 years and 8 months in federal prison for transportation of child pornography. The court also ordered Groover to forfeit the electronic devices he used to commit the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned an indictment charging JONATHAN RIVERS, 38, of Meriden, with narcotics distribution and firearm possession offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: GUILITY PLEA - FLOYD ALLEN HAWKINS.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 10, 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 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Philip Finn, Jr., age 50, of Plains, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on July 9, 2020 to 10 years’ imprisonment followed by three years supervised release by United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion, for use of fire to commit stalking.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: Dover, TN- Rehabilitation of the Fort Donelson National Battlefield picnic area is almost complete, with much of the improvement and landscaping done by high-school age, Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) students.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
Release: Washington, DC, July 10, 2020 - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced Nevada has been approved to operate Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT), a new program authorized by the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), signed by President Trump, which provides assistance to families of children eligible for free or reduced-price meals dealing with school closures.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain today announced that Universal Health Services, Inc. and UHS of Delaware, Inc. (together, UHS) have agreed to pay $117 million to resolve alleged violations of the False Claims Act for billing for medically unnecessary inpatient behavioral health...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA - Today, House Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) called on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to increase their oversight of nursing homes and long-term care facilities through improved surveys and data collection. These facilities have been the epicenter...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Ion Antonescu, 36, of Anaheim, California and Ramona Ghiocel, 37, of Bueno Park, California were sentenced in federal court in Albuquerque on July 9 for access device fraud offenses. Antonescu received a sentence of 30 months in prison and Ghiocel received a sentence of 24 months in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Maryland Darknet vendor and a Nebraska pharmacist pleaded guilty today to charges related to a conspiracy to use explosives to firebomb and destroy a competitor pharmacy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: Defendants took numerous government-funded trips together, including 31 trips to Orlando.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: A Cedar Rapids drug user who unlawfully possessed a loaded gun was sentenced today to one year in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Yevgeniy Nikulin was convicted today by a federal jury for hacking into LinkedIn, DropBox, and the social networking company formerly known as Formspring, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and FBI Special Agent in Charge John L. Bennett.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: Burley, Idaho- The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Burley Field Office seeks public comment on a proposal to change the overnight camping and entrance fees at both the Lud Drexler Park and Milner Historic Recreation Area (MHRA) for the first time in nearly three decades.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: A federal grand jury for the Southern District of Illinois has returned on indictment charging.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: The Department of Justice has awarded $2.2 million in grant funding to law enforcement agencies and stakeholders through the Department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) Community Policing Development (CPD) Microgrants Program. COPS Office Director Phil Keith announced 29 awards with award amounts ranging from $15,090 to $100,000.
By State Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today issued the following statement in reaction to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s effort to convert the Hagia Sophia Museum of Istanbul from a world-famous cultural site into a mosque:
