News from July 2020
By USDA Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
Release: Washington, DC, July 6, 2020 - The U.S Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) today announced the fiscal year (FY) 2019 payment error rate for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The error rate is a key indicator of payment accuracy, measuring a state’s ability to determine a household’s eligibility for SNAP and issue benefits in the correct amount. The nationwide error rate for FY 2019 is 7.36%.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA. - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) New Orleans Field Division today announced a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of ATF fugitive Demariquez Devon Harris. Harris was a resident of Bogalusa, LA and is considered armed and dangerous. Harris is believed to be within the Dallas, Tex. area.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: GAITHERSBURG, Md. - The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded $3.4 million in grants to support high-impact projects for COVID-19 pandemic response, with funding authorized by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act signed by President Donald Trump in March 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank today announced that Abdikareem Hassan, 32, of Portland was charged by criminal complaint with assaulting a federal officer.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA, July 6, 2020-Puerto Rico's population of African-European hybrid honey bees (AHB) are famously known for being much gentler than their continental counterparts. Now Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and their colleagues have found that this reduced defending of the nest is determined by colony-level genetics as opposed to individual bee's DNA, according to a study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Elizabeth Jo Shirley, of Hedgesville, West Virginia, has admitted to unlawfully retaining a document containing national defense information and committing international parental kidnapping, Assistant Attorney General John C. Demers and U.S. Attorney William J. Powell for the Northern District of West Virginia announced.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: Dear Mr. President: We write to you today regarding our deep concern about the effect of your Administration’s anti-science rhetoric on America’s public health during this deadly pandemic. For decades, administrations of both parties and Congress have upheld a bipartisan tradition of supporting core...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
Release: Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, delivered the following remarks at the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee's markup of its fiscal year 2021 bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: ABINGDON, VIRGINIA - A pair of New York men, who were stopped for speeding by a Wythe County Sheriff’s Deputy who later discovered more than $97,000 in stolen cash in the vehicle, pleaded guilty last week in U.S. District Court in Abingdon to conspiring to transport the stolen money in interstate commerce, United States Attorney Thomas T. Cullen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of Wire Fraud and Money Laundering was sentenced on July 6, 2020, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd sentenced a Turlock man today to two years and three months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for purposefully striking a Stanislaus County Sheriff’s helicopter with the beam of a powerful laser, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: West Palm Beach, Fl. - Today, federal district judge Kenneth A. Marra committed a man who fired gunshots inside a West Palm Beach VA Medical Center to the custody of the U.S. Attorney General for 25 years of mental health care and treatment at a suitable medical facility. The commitment is a provisional...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies today approved by voice vote its fiscal year 2021 bill. In total, the bill provides $250.9 billion in both discretionary and mandatory funding, an increase of $15.2 billion above the fiscal...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House Appropriations Committee today released the draft fiscal year 2021 Homeland Security funding bill, which will be considered in subcommittee tomorrow. The legislation provides annual funding for the components of the Department of Homeland Security.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: Winnemucca, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management, Humboldt River Field Office (HRFO) is seeking public comments on issues to be analyzed in an environmental assessment for the proposed Baltazor Geothermal Development Project (BGDP) that would be located approximately 7 miles southwest of Denio near Baltazor Hot Springs off NV State Highway 140, in Humboldt County, Nevada. The 15-day scoping period ends July 21, 2020.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, Chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security, and Committee Member Rep. Jackie Speier, issued the following statement after the Committee requested a briefing on the Army’s response and investigation into the disappearance and murder of Army Specialist Vanessa Guillen...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that TELEMAQUE LAVIDAS, an entrepreneur and pharmaceutical company executive, was sentenced on July 2 to one year and one day in prison for his role in an international insider trading scheme. LAVIDAS was convicted...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Monmouth County, New Jersey, man was charged today for subscribing to a false tax return, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Chairman of the Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, and Rep. Joaquin Castro, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, issued the following statement after the State Department revealed its plan for releasing a draft report from the Commission on Unalienable Rights.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: 76 Businesses Throughout the Country Were Involved in the Fraud, Which Allegedly Resulted in More Than $10 Million in Losses.
