News from July 2020
By USDA Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: Washington - As part of its commitment to ensuring fair and competitive markets for the livestock, meat and poultry industries, on July 7, 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued a complaint against Steve Lamers (Lamers) for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Legislation that would help the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warn the owner or operator of critical infrastructure computer systems that it is vulnerable to cyberattacks was included in the Senate’s 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). This legislation...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, sent a letter to Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and National Counterterrorism Center Acting Director Lora Shiao on their sudden refusal to brief the Committee...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: Ocala, Florida - United States District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. has sentenced Anthony Michele DeCotis, Jr. (32, Eustis) to 18 years in federal prison for possessing with intent the to distribute methamphetamine and possessing of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. DeCotis had pleaded guilty on Jan. 29, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH - 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, for obstruction of justice, the maximum statutory sentence allowed under the law for obstruction of justice, Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian Rabbitt of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. of the Eastern District of North Carolina announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS-A Busby woman convicted of severely neglecting two young children who were in her custody, causing them serious injury, was sentenced today to one year in prison and three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
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 $1.8 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Northeast Council of Governments, Aberdeen, 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 DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: Miami, Fl. - South Florida federal prosecutors have charged Hialeah residents Alberico Ahias Crespo, 45, and Jorge Diaz Gutierrez, 65, with conspiring to distribute Oxycodone, obstruct justice, and make false statements to the FBI. Crespo is a Special Agent with the Department of Health and Human Services...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today introduced legislation to incentivize states to upgrade their outdated unemployment insurance infrastructure.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: OCALA, Fla. - Anthony Michele DeCotis, Jr. (32, Eustis) was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison for possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine and possessing of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. DeCotis had pleaded guilty on Jan. 29, 2020.
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 nearly $3.3 million grant to the Carteret County-Beaufort Airport Authority, Beaufort, North Carolina, to rebuild airport hangar buildings damaged and destroyed...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that two Shreveport men were indicted today for credit card fraud and aggravated identity theft. The 11-count indictment charges former City of Shreveport Public Works employee, Tory Deshawn Jackson, 41, and Jawaski L. Johnson, 30, with...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: Wife of U.S. Army Soldier Sentenced to Prison for Obstruction of Justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: VALDOSTA, Ga. - A convicted felon with a lengthy criminal record was sentenced to prison for illegally possessing a stolen firearm, said Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: FBI Working with Guam Department of Labor to Address Scams and Fraud Targeting COVID-19 Stimulus Funds.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: Starting July 27, a coalition of state and federal agencies, with support from local tribes, will begin the fourth and final two-week round of translocating mountain goats from Olympic National Park and Olympic National Forest to the northern Cascade Mountains to meet wildlife management goals in all three areas. Since September 2018, 275 mountain goats have been translocated.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: Concord, NH - Today’s featured “Fugitive of the Week," John Arthur Cathcart, 55 years-of-age, was located sleeping on a porch on Batchelder Street in Laconia, NH. Mr. Cathcart was being sought on multiple outstanding arrest warrants issued by the Belknap County Superior Court. These warrants included failing to appear on a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm and failing to appear on three outstanding narcotics charges.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: CHEYENNE, Wyo. - BLM Wyoming will immediately begin accepting appointments to view and adopt wild horses and burros at the Mantle Adoption and Training Facility in Wheatland and the Rock Springs Corral in Rock Springs. Appointments at the Mantle Adoption and Training Facility will be accepted for Wednesdays...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: This 10-year agreement provides a framework for Scripps and OMAO’s new Unmanned Systems Operations Program to collaborate on specific projects to further UxS research, development, and operations.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As the July 31 expiration date of the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) program rapidly approaches, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) today reiterated that the Senate must follow the House’s lead, extend the full $600 benefit beyond the end of the month, and do so swiftly to avoid any lapse in assistance for vulnerable Americans who cannot yet safely return to work.
