News from July 2020
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $1.8 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to capitalize and administer Revolving Loan Funds (RLFs) that will provide critical gap financing to small businesses and entrepreneurs that have been adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic across Delaware.

By Homeland Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on the Department of Homeland Security still not accepting DACA applications after the Supreme Court ruled last month that the Administration couldn’t end the program...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: Fort Lauderdale, FL. - Today, a federal district judge sentenced prior felon Jeremy Juwan Rosello, 22, of Lauderdale Lakes, to nine years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for illegally possessing stolen firearms that later ended up in the hands of alleged international firearms traffickers.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to time served of approximately 33.5 months, and three years of supervised release on his conviction of federal firearms violations, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Alan Hansen, 49, of Vacaville, pleaded guilty Tuesday to his participation in a massive fraud scheme through DC Solar, a solar energy company in Benicia formerly owned and operated by Jeff and Paulette Carpoff, that defrauded investors of approximately $1 billion, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A former Massachusetts attorney and his wife were indicted today in federal court in Boston in connection with various mortgage fraud schemes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Raymond Cawthorne, 57, of Valley Springs, was sentenced today to five years’ probation for embezzlement of public funds, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.

By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), and House Small Business Committee Chairwoman Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY) strongly urged the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Small Business...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 41-year-old San Antonio man has admitted to wire fraud that resulted in a loss of $1,878,615.84, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A former Massachusetts attorney and his wife were indicted today in federal court in Boston in connection with various mortgage fraud schemes.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS - A federal jury on Monday convicted a Moiese man accused of sexually abusing minor girls in Lodge Grass on the Crow Indian Reservation, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: Company Formerly Associated with Defendant Agrees to Plead Guilty to Distributing Misbranded Drug Products and to Stop Marketing Silver Products as Coronavirus Treatment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - A Cicero woman who helped numerous undocumented immigrants from Guatemala illegally enter the United States pleaded guilty today to a federal labor trafficking charge.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: Case is first federal murder case charged in Cincinnati.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - Workers at the EM West Valley Demonstration Project began demolishing a former utility building this month. The 6,955-square-foot building is an ancillary structure to the Main Plant Process Building, the last remaining major facility at the West Valley site. Five other ancillary...

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - The former Chair of Harvard University’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department was charged today in a superseding indictment with tax offenses for failing to report income he received from Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in Wuhan, China.

By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: (BUTTE, Mont.) - The parking lot at Log Gulch Campground on Holter Lake is about to get a fresh, smooth look as engineers from the Bureau of Land Management’s Butte Field Office complete a resurfacing project.

By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: While summer has been in full swing in communities surrounding Mount Rainier for weeks, the mountain has just finally emerged from its snowy cloak, although some snow remains at higher elevations. As of today, all public roads have reopened for the summer, giving access to some of the most spectacular landscapes in Washington State.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: (BELLE FOURCHE, S.D.) - The Bureau of Land Management South Dakota Field Office is seeking public comments on the complete Plan of Operations (Plan) for the Dewey Burdock In-Situ Uranium Project located in Fall River and Custer counties on BLM-administered lands.

By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: Los Alamos, Watrous, Pecos, Jemez Springs - New Mexico - Due to several days of higher humidity and rain, Bandelier National Monument, Fort Union National Monument, Pecos National Historical Park and Valles Caldera National Preserve will lift fire restrictions at 8:00 am on July 29, 2020.