News from July 2020
By Interior Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: On July 23, 2020, the City of Natchez will formally transfer ownership of the Natchez Visitors Center to the National Park Service (NPS). Completed in 1998 as a partnership project between the city, state, Mississippi Department of Transportation, and the NPS, the 25,000 sq. ft. building presently serves...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Joseph Guagliardo, a/k/a “Joseph Gagliardo," a former New York City Police Department (“NYPD") officer and former member of the supervisory committee (the “Supervisory Committee") of Municipal Credit Union...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Nearly six months after the President signed the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), and three weeks after the agreement entered into force, the Ways and Means Committee and USMCA Working Group Democratic Leaders expressed their deep concern to Department of Labor (Labor)...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Valerie Chu and Paul Starita (619) 546-6750/7701.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), released the following statement in response to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) entering into a Memorandum of Understanding ...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
Release: On May 4, 2020, we advised you of our process adjustments in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our plans are evolving, like this whole pandemic, and we want to keep you updated on the current status of our activities. Like many federal and state agencies we are making plans to ‘carefully’ get back to ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the unsealing of a federal indictment charging TRAVON LAVELLE BLACKMAN, 23, and MICHAEL EUGENE HUNTER, 21, with one count of possession of a firearm by a felon. BLACKMAN made his initial appearance on July 17, 2020, and HUNTER made his initial appearance earlier today before Magistrate Judge Katherine M. Menendez in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: National Park Service investigators are looking for information related to activities that caused significant resource damage along historic Mormon Row in Grand Teton National Park recently.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MARISOL FERRY, formerly known as “Marisol Hernandez," 27, of East Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 36 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing fentanyl.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Increased wildfire activity and hot, dry summer weather in Utah is prompting the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to ask the public to help prevent wildland fires. During 2020, over 80% of wildfires across the state have been human caused.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $4.4 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the South Eastern Development Foundation, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to capitalize and administer a Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) that will provide critical gap financing to small businesses and entrepreneurs adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: Bottom Line: As they have for the past 53 days, violent anarchists continue to riot on the streets of Portland as federal law enforcement officers work diligently and honorably to enforce federal law by defending federal property and the lives of their fellow officers.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C., July 22, 2020) – As part of its commitment to ensuring fair and competitive markets for the livestock, meat and poultry industries, today the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released a Boxed Beef and Fed Cattle Price Spread Investigation Report on its ongoing boxed beef and fed cattle price spread investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: An Irish national was sentenced in federal court in Waco, Texas, today to 12 months in prison for conspiracy to violate the Lacey Act in relation to illegal rhinoceros horn trafficking, announced Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Bossert Clark of the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Department of Justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: Today, Attorney General William P. Barr joined President Donald J. Trump to announce the expansion of Operation Legend to Chicago and Albuquerque. Operation Legend is a sustained, systematic and coordinated law enforcement initiative in which federal law enforcement agencies work in conjunction with ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: The wife of a U.S. Army soldier was sentenced today to three years in prison, to be followed by one year of supervised release, the maximum statutory sentenced allowed under the law for obstruction of justice, Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian Rabbitt of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division ...
By Labor Gazette | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON, TX – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD), Rockonwireless Inc. – doing business as Metro T-Mobile in Houston, Texas – will pay $900 in back wages after failing to provide an employee with coronavirus symptoms paid sick leave after their doctor ordered them to self-quarantine for two weeks, in violation of the Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act, part of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA).
By Labor Gazette | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH, NC – The U.S. District Court Eastern District of North Carolina, in Raleigh, North Carolina, has sentenced former union president Keith Alan Ludlum to 14 months in prison and ordered him to pay $213,201 in restitution after a U.S. Department of Labor Office of Labor-Management Standards’ (OLMS) investigation.
By Labor Gazette | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: CLEVELAND, OH – The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio has issued a preliminary injunction enjoining the Fleet Owners Insurance Fund from paying or advancing attorneys’ fees to any of the defendants in a U.S. Department of Labor Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) enforcement case.
By Labor Gazette | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH, NC – The U.S. District Court Eastern District of North Carolina, in Raleigh, North Carolina, has sentenced former union president Keith Alan Ludlum to 14 months in prison and ordered him to pay $213,201 in restitution after a U.S. Department of Labor Office of Labor-Management Standards’ (OLMS) investigation.
