News from July 2020
By USDA Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Agriculture Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry Chair Abigail Spanberger of Virginia welcomed passage today of the Great American Outdoors Act, legislation that among other items sets aside funding to address billions in deferred maintenance across the country’s National Forests.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - John R. Lausch, Jr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, today joined Attorney General William P. Barr and President Donald J. Trump to announce the expansion of Operation Legend to Chicago.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - An Auburn man was arrested and charged with possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Brian L. Schumacher, 55, of Penfield, NY, was charged by complaint with wire fraud and wire fraud conspiracy. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: CALAIS, ME - In October 2019, the National Park Service (NPS) began soliciting proposals to lease the historic McGlashan-Nickerson House located at Saint Croix Island International Historic Site. The lease would last for up to 60 years in exchange for preservation efforts to restore and maintain the house.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A former Raytheon systems engineer was sentenced today for illegally retaining national defense information. The defendant retained 31,000 pages of information that was marked as classified, some of which pertained to U.S. missile defense and was classified at the SECRET level, and altered or obliterated the classification markings on documents.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - 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...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A long-time senior leader of the South Los Angeles-based East Coast Crips (ECC) was arrested today on a federal grand jury indictment alleging he engaged in a decades-long conspiracy to murder rivals, extort local business and distribute narcotics.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: 10:00 a.m. *NOTE: **House Office Buildings are closed to the public. The hearing will be broadcast live via YouTube for press and the public.**. WITNESS LIST. Mr. Jim Falk, President, Falk’s Seed Farm, Inc.; Co-owner, Falk Farm; on behalf of Minnesota Farmers Union and National Farmers Union, Murdock,...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: On July 22, 2020 the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Electricity (OE), and the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) and Southwestern Power Administration (SWPA) announced the publication of the report, Fiber Optics Feasibility Assessment: Western Area Power Administration and Southwestern...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: CWD Holdings LLC has agreed to pay the United States $8 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly avoiding paying tariffs on certain imported brake parts. The settlement arises out of allegations that CWD falsely claimed that the mounted brake pads it in fact imported...
By State Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today convened a full committee hearing on advancing effective U.S. competition with China, with witness testimony from Deputy Secretary of State Stephen E. Biegun.
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 $3.2 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to eight EDA Economic Development District organizations across Arkansas to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A former Kansas man was sentenced today to 10 years in federal prison for uploading child pornography to his Yahoo Messenger account, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: VALDOSTA, Ga. - Two men involved in distributing many kilos of cocaine in South Georgia have entered guilty pleas for their crime, said Charlie Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: The Entrance Fire was reported to Mesa Verde Dispatch on July 21, 2020 at approximately 4:15 pm. This lighting caused fire is located near the trailer parking lot at the entrance of the park. As of the morning of July 22, 2020, this fire is approximately 1.5 acres. Personnel supporting this fire include...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: Originally launched in Kansas City, MO., additional cities include Chicago and Albuquerque.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury in Maryland has indicted licensed dentist Edward T. Buford III, age 68, of Silver Spring, Maryland; his business partner Kasandra Vilchez-Duarte, age 44, of Fort Washington, Maryland; and Donnie Amis, age 63, of Washington, D.C. on the federal charges of conspiracy...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Legislation introduced by U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI) to strengthen the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) disaster response efforts for communities of color advanced in the Senate today. The legislation was unanimously approved by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON- A federal grand jury sitting in Austin has returned a six-count indictment against a 31-year-old paralegal specialist with the U.S. Attorney’s Office (USAO) for the Western District of Texas, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Steven S. Whipple, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick of the Southern District of Texas.
