News from July 2020
By DOL Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has undertaken a public service messaging effort to remind workers that the agency is committed to ensuring their safety and health during the coronavirus pandemic.
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 Superior California Economic Development, Inc., Redding, California, 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: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard today sentenced Brandi Nicole Fletcher (25, Jacksonville) to four years and nine months in federal prison for perjury and aggravated identity theft in connection with obtaining a fraudulent passport. Fletcher had pleaded guilty on March 20, 2020.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - A basin that once held cooling water used in Oak Ridge’s former uranium enrichment operations has been removed from the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP), and now the site where it was located has been restored.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CESMII) announced selections totaling up to $1.7 million for four projects that will advance innovation in smart manufacturing. The selected projects will create educational programs that support smart-manufacturing technologies, processes, and workforce development.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - On July 7, a resident of Altoona, Pa. was indicted by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on charges of receipt and possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of minors, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM Hanford tank operations contractor Washington River Protection Solutions is preparing to retrieve radioactive and chemical waste from storage tanks in the site’s A Tank Farm.
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: LAREDO, Texas - A 30-year-old resident of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, faces up to life in prison after admitting to conspiracy to import and importing more than 1,000 kilograms of marijuana, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: ROCKFORD - A superseding indictment returned today by a federal grand jury in Rockford adds new charges against FLOYD E. BROWN in connection with the killing of Special Deputy U.S. Marshal Jacob Keltner.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former Beverly Hills stockbroker has been sentenced to 72 months in federal prison for scheming to manipulate penny stock prices to inflate the reported profits of his co-conspirator’s hedge funds, generating millions of dollars in fees and commissions for himself, but causing investors to suffer more than $215 million in losses when the funds collapsed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - The former comptroller of the Catholic Diocese of Steubenville pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to failing to pay the Internal Revenue Service payroll taxes withheld from the paychecks of diocesan employees, to filing false tax returns and also embezzling $299,500 in diocesan funds between 2008 and 2017.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM crews have demolished two small structures formerly used to measure the flow of hazardous wastewater and obtain sample data within a process sewer line at the Savannah River Site (SRS).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - Two residents of Windber and Johnstown, Pa., were indicted by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on charges of conspiracy and interstate transportation of stolen property, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Randall Joseph Smail, of Jeannette, Pennsylvania, has admitted to bank fraud, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
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 East Central Florida Regional Planning Council, Orlando, Florida, 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: 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: ROCKFORD - A superseding indictment returned today by a federal grand jury in Rockford adds new charges against FLOYD E. BROWN in connection with the killing of Special Deputy U.S. Marshal Jacob Keltner.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury today indicted an Orange County man on charges that he fraudulently obtained access to Boeing employees’ retirement accounts and siphoned their money by making hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of fraudulent money transfers to himself.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau released the total number of 2020 Census paid temporary workers that earned any pay between June 21 - June 27, 2020. The data tables include national totals for all 50 states and the District of Columbia by Census Bureau regional geography. A weekly number of paid temporary workers for Puerto Rico is also available. The weekly release will occur 10 days after the end of the weekly period.
