News from July 2020
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $400,000 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the CCD Business Development Corporation, Roseburg, Oregon, to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Raymond P. Donovan, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA"), and Dermot Shea, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), announced...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: TAMPA - A Tampa man was sentenced today to 11 years and three months in federal prison for sex trafficking of minors and was ordered to forfeit a Glock 19 9mm handgun and cellular phone, both of which were used during the commission of the offenses. This case was investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Dylan Lee Jarrell, of Lawrenceburg, was sentenced Wednesday to 120 months in federal prison, by United States District Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove, for making threats to and intimidating two individuals over social media, illegally possessing a firearm in furtherance of one of those threats, and lying to an FBI agent during an investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: For Interstate Transportation In Aid of Racketeering.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: Oklahoma Center for Orthopaedic and Multi-Specialty Surgery (OCOM), a specialty hospital in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, its part-owner and management company, USP OKC, Inc. and USP OKC Manager, Inc. (collectively USP), Southwest Orthopaedic Specialists, PLLC (SOS), an Oklahoma City-based physician group, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: An American military contractor pleaded guilty today to his role in a theft ring on a military installation in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: A U.S. Army soldier was sentenced today to life in prison for aggravated sexual assault of a minor, Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian Rabbitt of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Robert J. Higdon Jr. of the Eastern District of North Carolina announced. Daniel Kemp Sr., ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: A Kansas man was sentenced today to 12 years in prison for murdering his longtime girlfriend during a cruise from Florida to the Bahamas in January 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: An American citizen was arrested and charged yesterday in connection with exploiting teenage boys in Laos.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: Following a comprehensive investigation, the Justice Department announced today that it has found reasonable cause to believe the Narcotics Bureau of the Springfield, Massachusetts, Police Department (SPD) engages in a pattern or practice of using excessive force in violation of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The investigation was conducted pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 and was announced on Apr. 13, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: Today, Attorney General William P. Barr announced the launch of Operation Legend, a sustained, systematic and coordinated law enforcement initiative across all federal law enforcement agencies working in conjunction with state and local law enforcement officials to fight the sudden surge of violent crime, beginning in Kansas City, MO. Operation Legend was created as a result of President Trump’s promise to assist America’s cities that are plagued by recent violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: On Wednesday, July 8th Senator Tim Scott hosted Attorney General William Barr in Columbia, South Carolina for two closed-press roundtable events with faith and community leaders and members of law enforcement to discuss restoring relationships between law enforcement and African American communities in South Carolina and across the country.
By Labor Gazette | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor announced today the availability of $40 million in Strengthening Community Colleges Training Grants to expand community colleges’ ability to meet labor market demand for a skilled workforce.
By Labor Gazette | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, OH ‒ The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Jerry Turnbaugh – a roofing contractor based in Dublin, Ohio – for exposing employees to falls at three separate residential home sites in Pickerington, Ohio. Turnbaugh faces penalties of $148,430 for five willful safety violations.
By Labor Gazette | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued a new poster listing safety tips employers can follow to help protect meat packing, poultry and pork workers from exposure to coronavirus.
By Labor Gazette | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued a new poster listing safety tips employers can follow to help protect meat packing, poultry and pork workers from exposure to coronavirus.
By Labor Gazette | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, OH ‒ The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Jerry Turnbaugh – a roofing contractor based in Dublin, Ohio – for exposing employees to falls at three separate residential home sites in Pickerington, Ohio. Turnbaugh faces penalties of $148,430 for five willful safety violations.
By Labor Gazette | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor announced today the availability of $40 million in Strengthening Community Colleges Training Grants to expand community colleges’ ability to meet labor market demand for a skilled workforce.
By Fed News Journal | Jul 8, 2020
The US Federal Reserve System published a two page notice on July 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
