News from July 2020
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (LHHS) today approved its fiscal year 2021 bill by a vote of 9 to 6. For fiscal year 2021, the draft bill includes $196.5 billion in overall funding, an increase of $2.4 billion above...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: St. Louis, Missouri, is home to a lot of traditional Americana, including the Gateway Arch, Major League Baseball's Cardinals and many domestic beers. It is now also home to the first Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) SCIRA exercise pilot.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: BAR HARBOR, MAINE - Early this winter, the National Park Service (NPS) chose eight artists to participate in the Artist-in-Residence program at Acadia National Park in 2020. Most have elected to defer their visits until 2021 due to uncertainties related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The next open call for applications to the program will occur in summer of 2021 for residency opportunities in 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced the sentencing of Muskogee residents, Derrick Christopher Segue, age 26, to 65 months’ imprisonment and 3 years’ supervised release, and Klawaun Lynell Sutton a/k/a “O.G.G.", age 38, to 80 months’...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House Appropriations Committee today released the draft fiscal year 2021 Financial Services and General Government funding bill, which will be considered in subcommittee tomorrow. The legislation provides annual funding for the Department of the Treasury, the Judiciary, the Executive Office of the President, and other independent agencies, including the Small Business Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute Cocaine and Marijuana, and Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Louis Joseph Normand, Jr., 60, of Diamondhead, pled guilty today before Senior U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola Jr. to a Criminal Information charging him with bank fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Michelle A. Sutphin with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House Appropriations Committee today released the draft fiscal year 2021 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies funding bill, which will be considered in subcommittee tomorrow. The legislation funds the Department of Transportation, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and other related agencies, including the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: Narragansett Police Department to Administer Grant for Regional Crisis Intervention Project.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Three Pittsburgh residents pleaded guilty in federal court to violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: Defendant Created a Makeshift Explosive Out of Gasoline and Ignited It Outside of the Fourth District Police Station.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury in Maryland has returned an indictment charging Arthur Morgan, age 67, of Lorton, Virginia, with federal wire fraud charges, in connection with federal contracts to provide helmets, body armor, and other items to military and other federal entities. The indictment was returned on July 6, 2020.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020 (no embargo).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ROCKY SAMAS, also known as “Twin," 48, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for distributing crack and powder cocaine.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bicameral Democratic Health Committee leaders wrote to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar, Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin today expressing serious concerns with guidance recently issued by the Trump Administration allowing insurance...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - An inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Loretto, Pa., was indicted by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on a charge of possession of a prohibited object in prison, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: Seattle - An indictment was unsealed today in the Western District of Washington charging a citizen of Kazakhstan, ANDREY TURCHIN, a/k/a “fxmsp," 37, with various federal crimes related to a prolific, financially motivated cybercrime group that hacked the computer networks of a broad array of corporate...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Quoc Boa Trinh was sentenced to eight months in prison for conspiring to distribute Schedule I synthetic cannabinoid controlled substances between 2017 and 2019, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - As the Hanford Site continues a phased remobilization of site operations, EM Richland Operations Office (RL) and its contractor CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Company (CHPRC) recently began designing and constructing a full-scale off-site mock-up to support the stabilization of three underground structures with engineered grout.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: Washington D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Senate Ranking Member Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), who lead the committees of jurisdiction over the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), wrote to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross demanding that the Trump administration stop interfering with the Department of Commerce Inspector General’s (IG) “Sharpiegate" investigation that was scheduled to be released last week.
