News from November 2020
By Interior Newswire | Nov 18, 2020
News Release: Boy Scout Troop 225 from Berlin/Ocean City completed a service project at Assateague Island National Seashore last Friday, November 13th that will enhance the landscape surrounding the Seashore’s visitor center, parking area, and environmental education complex. The National Park Service has been working...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - The final dump truck delivering limestone gravel came and went, setting the stage for the closure of a 12-acre legacy coal yard at EM’s Savannah River Site (SRS) recently.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, Susan A. Gibson, and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Craig Carpenito, announced a Bergen County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 63 months in prison for possessing with intent to distribute over 50 grams of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA- A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have invented a miniature thermometer with big potential applications, such as monitoring the temperature of processor chips in superconductor-based quantum computers, which must stay cold to work properly.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: The management of Denali National Park and Preserve has determined that there is adequate snow cover for the use of snowmobiles for traditional activities in areas of the 1980 park additions that are north of the crest of the Alaska Range.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: CAÑON CITY, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Royal Gorge Field Office is considering a proposal to mine unconsolidated clay, sand, and gravel material approximately 10 miles north of Salida.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 43-year-old physician practicing in Beaumont has been found guilty of federal health care fraud violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Steven S. Whipple, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: Justice Department Alleges Conditions at Massachusetts Department of Corrections Violate the Constitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - Seven individuals across two states have been charged in a Houston federal indictment unsealed today for their alleged participation in a scheme to obtain approximately $16 million in forgivable Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - A federal judge has sentenced Tabyron Rashad Smith, the first of two gunmen convicted for robbing nine Asian owned-and-operated businesses in Atlanta, Doraville, Duluth, Roswell, Stone Mountain, and Norcross in October and November 2017, to 27 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: Today, Acting Solicitor General Jeffrey B. Wall issued the following statement on the passing of former Solicitor General Drew S. Days III: “We are saddened to learn of the passing yesterday of former Solicitor General Drew Days. As Solicitor General from 1993 to 1996, Drew Days was a distinguished advocate ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: The Department of Justice announced the expansion of the Criminal Division, Fraud Section’s existing Gulf Coast Health Care Fraud Strike Force to include the Eastern District of Texas. The Strike Force is a joint law enforcement effort that brings together the resources and expertise of the Health Care ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: The Working Group on Bribery of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD Working Group) issued its Phase 4 Report of the United States today, announced the U.S. Departments of Justice, Commerce, State, and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The Phase 4 Report is part ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts today concluded an investigation into conditions at the Massachusetts Department of Correction (MDOC).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: The former chief executive officer of a U.S. government contractor was charged today in connection with schemes to defraud the U.S. Department of Defense regarding contracts related to U.S. military efforts in Afghanistan.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: Seven individuals across two states were charged in an indictment unsealed today for their alleged participation in a scheme to obtain approximately $16 million in forgivable Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: Attorney General of the United States William P. Barr and Fiscalía General of Mexico Alejandro Gertz Manero issued today the following statement: “On Oct. 15, 2020, former Mexican Secretary of National Defense General Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda was arrested in Los Angeles, California, on U.S. charges of conspiracy to manufacture, import, and distribute narcotics into the United States and money laundering.
By Labor Gazette | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic through Nov. 5, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued 203 citations arising from inspections for violations relating to coronavirus, resulting in proposed penalties totaling $2,851,533. ...
By Labor Gazette | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic through Nov. 5, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued 203 citations arising from inspections for violations relating to coronavirus, resulting in proposed penalties totaling $2,851,533. ...
