News from July 2020
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON - Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Chair of the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's markup of its fiscal year 2021 bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Brent Allen Haire, age 42, of Muskogee, Oklahoma entered a guilty plea to Possession With Intent To Distribute Methamphetamine, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1)...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated two Washington counties primary natural disaster area. Producers in Franklin and Walla Walla counties who suffered losses due to recent drought may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: N.J. Department of Law and Public Safety and Howell Township Receive $127,000 in Grants.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that on July 1, 2020, Chief Judge Landya B. McCafferty of the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire declined to grant preliminary injunctive relief to “lower-risk" immigration detainees arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE") and held at the Strafford County House of Corrections (“SCHOC").
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 33-year-old Shreveport, Louisiana woman has pleaded guilty to embezzling over $500,000 from an East Texas non-profit organization in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: Prolific hacker sold network access to other cybercriminals on various underground forums, enabling various further cyberattacks.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: A man convicted of sex trafficking a woman and obstructing the resulting investigation was sentenced today in U.S. District Court, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - An EM deactivation and demolition crew at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) recently encapsulated a concrete slab with a fixative after removing asbestos from it.
By State Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: Bronx, NY-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the Trump Administration’s formal withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO)...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: Dear Secretary Pompeo: On Feb. 11, 2020, I wrote to you requesting information related to the State Department’s activities in Ukraine. After receiving no response from the Department, I wrote again on May 6, 2020, repeating my request for documents. On June 4, 2020, four months after my initial...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: Justin Herdman, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, announced today that Amin M. Salem, age 61, of Westlake, was sentenced to 33-months imprisonment after entering a plea of guilty to money laundering, unpermitted discharged into a waterway of the United States, and the slaughter of animals...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 7, 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 Region D Council of Governments, Boone, North Carolina to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Texas woman pleaded guilty today to defrauding the Virginia Medicaid Program out of more than $2.8 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: Cherokee County Sheriff’s Department Receives Grant for Cherokee County Youth Engagement Project.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON, TX - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Alpha Technical Services (ATS) - doing business as Quala Rail and Specialty in Pasadena, Texas - for exposing employees to confined space hazards after two employees were fatally overcome by fumes while cleaning a tank trailer. The company faces $497,920 in penalties.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 7, 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 Central Florida Regional Planning Council, Bartow, Florida, to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a strategy to strengthen and unify industrial control systems (ICS) cybersecurity for a more aligned, proactive and collaborative approach to protect the essential services Americans use every day.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Douglas Gary Mayes, 66, of Gulfport, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr., to time served (approximately five months) and three years of supervised release, for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Kurt Thielhorn with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND - Acting Homeland Security Investigation (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Eben Roberts and U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams announced today that seven people have been arrested and face federal charges for their roles in weekend riots at the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse in Portland.
