News from October 2020
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 20, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.7 million grant to the University of West Alabama, Livingston, Alabama, to improve barge access at the Port of Epes Industrial Park. The EDA grant, to...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 20, 2020
Release: ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has installed new technology at the security checkpoint at Atlantic City International Airport that confirms the validity of a traveler’s identification and confirms their flight information in near real time.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2020
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: An admitted gang member who was a major supplier for a methamphetamine-trafficking operation in the coastal Georgia area has been sentenced to federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2020
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury returned an eleventh superseding indictment yesterday, charging five men in connection with a conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise known as La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13. The eleventh superseding indictment adds a new defendant charged with a racketeering conspiracy related to his membership in MS-13, including a double homicide and drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2020
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A Columbus man who criss-crossed Georgia while committing a series of robberies has entered guilty pleas to multiple federal charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Tina Rose Yoho, of New Martinsville, West Virginia, has admitted to a drug charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 20, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $615,448 grant to Gulf County, Florida, to make critical, disaster resistant infrastructure improvements needed to support manufacturing and industrial growth at the Costin Airport site and along Cessna Drive in Port St. Joe. The EDA grant, to be matched with $153,862 in local investment, is expected to create 71 jobs and spur $5.2 million in private investment.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 20, 2020
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - After a pause due to the COVID-19 pandemic, DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and its contractor Isotek are resuming uranium (U)-233 processing and downblending operations using gloveboxes.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 20, 2020
News Release: Dear Mr. DeJoy: In light of continuing and unacceptable delays in on-time mail delivery since you first directed operational changes to delivery within weeks of assuming your current position, I am writing again to raise concern and demand you take all necessary actions to reverse mounting mail delivery...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2020
News Release: Jackson, TN - Shontavis Rivers, 21, a resident of Bolivar, Tennessee has been sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute in excess of 50 grams of actual methamphetamine within the Whiteville Correctional Facility. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the sentence today.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 20, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) applauded Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos after the Department of Education released its report on higher educational institutions’ compliance with Section 117 of the Higher Education Act of 1965. The report resulted...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2020
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - United States Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that First Assistant United States Attorney (FAUSA) Donald Daniels will lead the efforts of his Office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming Nov. 3, 2020, general election.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2020
News Release: Miami, Fl. - Today, United States Attorney Ariana Fajardo Orshan of the Southern District of Florida and FBI Miami Special Agent in Charge George L. Piro jointly announced their District’s 2020 Election Day Program, including the appointment of a District Election Officer for the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Seven people are facing charges in drug trafficking conspiracy, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - The former president of an Ohio healthcare management company waived indictment and pleaded guilty today to bank fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2020
News Release: MACON, Ga. - Two Assistant U.S. Attorneys for the Middle District of Georgia have been named as election officers for the district, said Charlie Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 20, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 132,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2020/2021 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2020
News Release: Pennsylvania Biofuel Company and Owners Sentenced on Environmental and Tax Crime Convictions Arising out of Renewable Fuels Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2020
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A Columbus man who criss-crossed Georgia while committing a series of robberies has entered guilty pleas to multiple federal charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - John R. Lausch, Jr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, today announced that governmental and private entities in northern Illinois will receive more than $4 million in Department of Justice grants to advance forensic science.
