News from July 2020
By Interior Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: Carson City, Nev - Liberty Utilities will be hosting two virtual public meetings to discuss their proposed Luning II solar and battery storage project on Tues., July 28, and Thurs, July 30. This project would be located next to the existing Luning Solar facility which is approximately four miles northeast of Luning, NV.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced that U.S. District Judge Brian A. Jackson sentenced Michael Brown, Jr., age 34, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to 180 months in federal prison following his convictions for conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute controlled substances...
By State Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House passed an amendment offered by House Foreign Affairs Committee Republican Leader and China Task Force Chairman Michael McCaul to H.R.7608, the Fiscal Year 2021 State, Foreign Operations, Agriculture, Rural Development, Interior, Environment, Military Construction,...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Antoni Peralta, 34, of Anchorage, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess to serve 78 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm and associated ammunition, in connection with a December 2016 gunfight in a residential neighborhood. Peralta was found guilty following a three-day federal jury trial in September 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that Gabriel Orlando Ramirez, a/k/a “Cheech," age 43, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, was found guilty of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance as a result of a federal jury trial in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today against three members of the Mongolian Boys Society, charging them with conspiring to commit murder in aid of racketeering for acting as lookouts for a gang shooting that killed four, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement regarding reports that Senate Republicans may demand that the TRUST Act be included in the next COVID-19 response package...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG - Dr. Qingyun Sun, of Morgantown, West Virginia, has admitted to defrauding West Virginia University and filing a false tax return, both offenses arising out of his official travel to China, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, the Inspectors General (IG) of the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced they will both launch investigations into the Trump Administration's use of violent tactics against peaceful protestors in Washington D.C., Portland, Oregon, and elsewhere around the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Antoni Peralta, 34, of Anchorage, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess to serve 78 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm and associated ammunition, in connection with a December 2016 gunfight in a residential neighborhood. Peralta was found guilty following a three-day federal jury trial in September 2019.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Small Business, sent a letter to the Small Business Administration (SBA) and the Department of Treasury demanding documents regarding SBA’s attempts to target local Planned Parenthood organizations that have participated in the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - Eighteen individuals from Massachusetts and elsewhere were charged in a superseding indictment unsealed today in federal court in Boston on charges related to a wide-ranging fentanyl, heroin, crack, and cocaine trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal grand jury in Charlotte, North Carolina returned an indictment yesterday, charging three Charlotte tax preparers with conspiring to defraud the United States, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and First Assistant U.S. Attorney William Stetzer for the Western District of North Carolina.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $25 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 adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic across Oregon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Special Inspector General John F. Sopko, of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (“SIGAR"), and Peter C. Fitzhugh, Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of Homeland Security Investigations...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - A Houston resident was sentenced to federal prison Thursday for operating a massive human smuggling operation using locked and boarded-up trailers throughout the Houston area as stash houses. Two Mexican nationals who were co-conspirators in the smuggling operation were previously sentenced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: PLANO, Texas - A 48-year-old Saginaw, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for attempted child coercion and enticement in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox and FBI Special Agent in Charge Matthew J. DeSarno today.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 132,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2020/2021 marketing year.
By State Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Representatives Michael McCaul, Republican Leader of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Eliot Engel, the Committee’s Ranking Member, today applauded the passage of the Eliot L. Engel State Department Authorization Act as part of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON - House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey today delivered the following remarks on the House Floor in support of, a minibus of four fiscal year 2021 appropriations bills.
