News from May 2020
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2020
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A HOPE Clinic manager was sentenced to 20 months in federal prison for a gun crime, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Joshua Radcliffe, 36, of Shady Springs, previously pled guilty to conspiring with Mark T. Radcliffe to using and carrying firearms in relation to maintaining drug-involved premises.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing is asking anyone who has witnessed or experienced sexual harassment by a landlord, property manager, maintenance worker, or anyone with control over housing to report that conduct to the Department of Justice.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2020
News Release: FBI Michigan Announces Allure Medical Spa Email Tipline.
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2020
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation, NOAA Fisheries and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced the plan today for two pulse flow releases from Whiskeytown Dam into Clear Creek in May and June. Pulse flows are rapid increases and decreases in dam released flows, occurring over a short time frame.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2020
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn announced that Wilma Hau, age 45, formerly of Littleton, Colorado, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson to serve 18 months in federal prison for fleeing the U.S. to evade the jail sentence imposed on Feb. 24, 2014 in a previous tax fraud case. This sentence will be served consecutively to the tax fraud sentence. The Internal Revenue Service -- Criminal Investigation joined in the announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2020
News Release: St. Louis, Missouri - Antuan S. Ward, a/k/a Ari’al Ban Yashar’al, 33, of St. Louis, Missouri, plead guilty to one felony count of impersonating a foreign diplomat. Ward appeared today before U.S. District Judge Audrey G. Fleissig who accepted his plea and sentenced him to time served, approximately 13 months in federal custody, and two years supervised release.
By USDA Newswire | May 4, 2020
Release: On May 4, 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced increased availability of credit guarantees for sales of U.S. agricultural commodities under the Commodity Credit Corporation’s (CCC) Export Credit Guarantee Program (GSM-102) for fiscal year 2020. Further details of the announcements may be found at.
By Commerce Newswire | May 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $6.4 million grant to the city of Yankton, South Dakota, to make necessary water and sewer infrastructure improvements to increase capacity for businesses...
By Homeland Newswire | May 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON – For months, the Department of Homeland Security has undertaken an aggressive and herculean response to minimize the impact of COVID-19 on American citizens and workers. From private industry to local government, every organ of society has been and will continue to be leveraged to protect ...
By USDA Newswire | May 4, 2020
News Release: USDA is expanding access to innovative online food purchase program (Washington, D.C., May 4, 2020) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced approval of a request from Nevada to provide online purchasing of food to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) households. This ...
By USDA Newswire | May 4, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C., May 4, 2020) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture intends to make available up to $100 million in competitive grants for activities designed to expand the availability and sale of renewable fuels.
By USDA Newswire | May 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., May 4, 2020 – U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today applauded the announcement that agricultural producers, for the first time, are now eligible for the Small Business Administration (SBA)’s Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) and EIDL Advance programs.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2020
News Release: The former Director of Procurement for the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation and the president and chief executive officer of a government contracting firm pleaded guilty today to conspiring to bribe a public official.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2020
News Release: Cengage Learning Holdings II Inc. and McGraw-Hill Education Inc. mutually agreed to abandon their plans to merge after the Department of Justice informed the companies it had serious concerns that the proposed transaction, as structured, would harm competition. The merger would have combined the second ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2020
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that it has transferred $311,797,876.11 to the government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Nigeria) in accordance with a Feb. 3, 2020, trilateral agreement among the governments of the United States, Nigeria and the Bailiwick of Jersey (Jersey) to repatriate ...
By Labor Gazette | May 4, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, NJ – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the owner of a Somerset County, New Jersey, construction company has pleaded guilty to one count of felony perjury brought by the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey.
By Labor Gazette | May 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has translated and published its “Ten Steps All Workplaces Can Take to Reduce Risk of Exposure to Coronavirus” poster in 11 additional languages.
By Labor Gazette | May 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Labor today responded to specific state requests seeking assistance to administer changes to unemployment insurance (UI) programs made by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act and the Emergency Unemployment Insurance Stabilization and Access Act in the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA).
By Labor Gazette | May 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor today issued additional guidance regarding Title II, Subtitle A of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act. This guidance concerns 100 percent federal reimbursement of certain state Short-Term Compensation (STC) payments, as well as other changes to STC programs.
By Labor Gazette | May 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor today issued additional guidance regarding Title II, Subtitle A of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act. This guidance concerns 100 percent federal reimbursement of certain state Short-Term Compensation (STC) payments, as well as other changes to STC programs.
