News published on Federal Newswire in July 2020

News from July 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.


Thompson Statement on DHS’ Refusal to Restart DACA Program

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...


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.


Felon with Prior Drug and Domestic Violence Convictions Sentenced for Illegally Possessing a Firearm

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.


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.


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.


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.


House Democratic Committee Leaders Call on Treasury and SBA to Focus Remaining PPP Relief on Small, Minority-Owned Businesses

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...


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.


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.


Jury convicts man of sexually abusing minor girls in Lodge Grass

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.


Utah Man Posing As Medical Doctor To Sell Baseless Coronavirus Cure Indicted On Fraud Charges

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.


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.


Dayton-area drug dealer charged with murder

News Release: Case is first federal murder case charged in Cincinnati.


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...


Harvard University Professor Charged with Tax Offenses

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.


Log Gulch Campground on Holter Lake to close for chipseal project

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.


Mount Rainier National Park Summer 2020 Operations Update

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.


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.


National Park Service’s Pueblo Parks Group   to Lift Stage 2 Fire Restrictions Wednesday

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.