News from July 2020
By DOE Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: EM contractors at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) and Savannah River Site (SRS) were recently awarded Star status for safety and health advances through the DOE’s Voluntary Protection Program (VPP).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: Fort Myers, FL - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute, LLC (FCS), an oncology group headquartered in Fort Myers, Florida, has agreed to a civil settlement that will return $2,341,508.91 that was overpaid by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for certain claims relating to physician-administered drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced that U.S. District Judge John W. deGravelles sentenced Derrick J. Banks, age 45, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to 84 months in federal prison following his conviction for possession of firearms by a convicted felon. The Court further sentenced Banks to three years of supervised release following his term of imprisonment and ordered that the firearms and ammunition involved be forfeited.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A seventh former employee of eBay, Inc. has been charged with participating in a cyberstalking campaign targeting a Natick, Mass. couple who published a newsletter that eBay executives viewed as critical of the company.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Ron Parsons, District of South Dakota, and Acting Special Agent in Charge Adam Steiner, IRS Criminal Investigation, St. Louis Field Office, are reminding taxpayers that the tax filing and payment deadline is July 15, and to continue to be on the lookout for scam artists.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: NEW YORK - A complaint was unsealed yesterday in the Eastern District of New York charging Bryant Espinoza Aguilar, the stepson of Sinaloa Cartel leader and notorious fugitive Rafael Caro Quintero, with conspiring to commit violations of the Kingpin Act, an economic sanctions program against narcotics...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-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.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: * The parkwide fire danger level for Yellowstone is now moderate.
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 Western Nevada Development District, Carson City, Nevada, 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: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Jazmin Gonzalez, age 49, of Amsterdam, New York, was sentenced to serve 46 months in federal prison following her guilty plea to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, and distributing cocaine and heroin, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and John B. DeVito, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF).
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON - Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D-MN), Chair of the Interior, Environment, 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: 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 DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Law enforcement today arrested eight individuals named in a federal grand jury indictment charging them with creating nonexistent businesses and then claiming more than $1.1 million in unemployment benefits for purported employees of those fake businesses.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: Unlocking the full utility and potential of NOAA’s massive and diverse data is the purpose of the agency’s new Cloud and Data strategies. They are also integral to implementing a collection of strategies to dramatically expand emerging science and technology that will drive innovation and guide transformative advancements in NOAA’s science, products and services.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced today that Kevin James Bell, 27, of Shreveport, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge S. Maurice Hicks Jr., to two and a half years in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: North Carolina Department of Public Safety Receives Grant for Officer Safety and Wellness Project.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - Upgrades and construction are progressing at Building 2026 to prepare the facility to begin processing a high-dose portion of Oak Ridge’s uranium-233 inventory. That work will enable EM to convert the material into a disposal-ready form after extracting an unprecedented amount of thorium for next generation cancer research.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: Faces at Least 15 Years in Prison.
By State Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representatives Eliot L. Engel (D-NY), Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Albio Sires (D-NJ), Chairman of the Committee’s Western Hemisphere, Civilian Security, and Trade Subcommittee, today issued the following statement on the Egyptian release of U.S. citizen Mohamed Amashah...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: FBI Media Alert: Navajo Nation Man Charged Federally with Murder in New Mexico.
