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 $16 million grant to the city of New Bedford, Massachusetts, to make port infrastructure improvements needed to protect commercial fishing businesses from...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 20, 2020
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM has completed demolition of a large metal storage building at the Savannah River Site (SRS) that formerly contained mechanical systems used to remotely raise and lower control rods within nuclear reactor vessels during the Cold War.
By State Newswire | Oct 20, 2020
Release: Foreign Military Training in Fiscal Years 2019 and 2020.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 20, 2020
News Release: Washington - The Trump Administration today announced that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $3 million to provide broadband service in unserved and underserved rural areas in Minnesota. This investment is part of the $550 million Congress allocated to the second round of the ReConnect Program.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 20, 2020
News Release: Washington D.C. - House Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today unveiled his Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Act at a virtual press conference with his co-lead, House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis Chair Kathy Castor (D-Fla.), original cosponsors, and a range of bill...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2020
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - United States Attorney John W. Huber announced today that Assistant United States Attorney Aaron Clark 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. Clark will coordinate...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 20, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Christopher Krebs released the following statement today, along with a video, on the agency’s ongoing efforts with public and private sector partners to protect the 2020 elections from foreign interference. CISA also unveiled a new web page, cisa.gov/rumorcontrol, which details the agency’s efforts to combat disinformation.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 20, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM) operated a virtual career fair booth at the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) National Conference, held Oct. 15-17.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 20, 2020
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Workers at EM Hanford ’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant have completed construction of six more systems in the plant’s Effluent Management Facility (EMF) and turned them over to startup testing.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman announced today that a federal grand jury sitting in Toledo has returned a five-count indictment charging Jesus Alejandro Degollado, 29, of Fostoria with possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, heroin, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime and as a felon in possession of a firearm.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 20, 2020
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative complaint against Imperial Frozen Foods Op Co LLC for alleged violations of the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA). The company, operating from North Carolina, allegedly failed to make payment promptly to 31 produce sellers in the amount of $6,374,648 from May 2019 through January 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Jamieson C. Mason, 28, of Upper Fruitland, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, waived his preliminary hearing in federal court today on charges of assault with a dangerous weapon and assault resulting in serious bodily injury. Mason will remain in custody pending trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A member of the Newark Municipal Council and Board of Directors of the Newark Community Economic Development Corporation (NCEDC) was charged today with scheming to obtain bribes and kickbacks, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2020
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - The Department of Justice is reminding members of the public to be vigilant against fraudsters who are using the COVID-19 pandemic to exploit American consumers and organizations and to cheat disaster relief programs, Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced. In...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announces that today, Richard R. Cephas, of Wilmington, Delaware, was sentenced to 18 months consecutive to the sentence he is currently serving for escaping from the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) in Butner, North Carolina on or about April 1, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Erik Goes will lead the efforts of his Office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming general election on Nov. 3, 2020. AUSA Goes...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 20, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine signed a new memorandum of understanding (MOU) furthering the longstanding partnership between the Department of Energy (DOE) and NASA that has enabled 50 years of notable space exploration.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Gloucester County, New Jersey, man today admitted to stealing gift cards and cash from mail that passed through post offices where he was employed, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - RYAN P. MULLEN, age 39, and a resident of Jayess, Mississippi, and DUANE A. DUFRENE, age 53, and a resident of Destrehan, Louisiana, were indicted on Oct. 16, 2020 by a federal grand jury for conspiracy to commit bank fraud and money laundering, in addition to multiple counts of substantive bank fraud and money laundering, announced U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser of the Eastern District of Louisiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2020
News Release: DENVER - Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Administrator Timothy J. Shea today announced that the DEA will direct resources to help reduce violent crime in communities throughout the country. Under this initiative, called Project Safeguard, DEA will identify and prioritize ongoing drug trafficking investigations with a nexus to violent crime.
