News from October 2020
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: “Thank you, Mr. Chairman and Ranking Member Smith.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced today continuing efforts by federal and territorial law enforcement agencies to investigate and prosecute violent crime in the Territory, as part of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Project Guardian initiative and Project Safe...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: Our hearing today will focus on the issue of Tax Fairness. I welcome my colleagues and our witnesses.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Pitcairn, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of production and attempted production of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Peter Deegan of the Northern District of Iowa and U.S. Attorney Marc Krickbaum of the Southern District of Iowa today announced $661,955 in Department of Justice grants to the Iowa Department of Public Safety to fund crime laboratories, decrease DNA backlogs, support basic and applied forensic...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: CEDAR RAPIDS, IA - Today, the Department of Justice announced it has charged more than 14,200 defendants with firearms-related crimes during Fiscal Year (FY) 2020, despite the challenges of COVID 19 and its impact on the criminal justice process. These cases have been a Department priority since November...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA: A Pooler man who led a drug trafficking organization that transported and distributed significant amounts of cocaine and other drugs into the coastal Georgia area awaits sentencing after admitting guilt.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: Eastern District of Virginia Charged Over 200 Defendants from Oct. 2019 through Sept. 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: Fair elections are the foundation of our democracy in the United States, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maine is committed to protecting the rights of all Americans to vote. The U.S. Attorney’s Office is issuing this press release to inform voters about federal election crimes and how to avoid them, and to encourage voters to report suspected violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA: An Augusta man who borrowed nearly $3 million to purchase an Augusta apartment complex, and then filed for bankruptcy protection when facing foreclosure, has been indicted on federal fraud charges.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland have developed a microchip technology that can convert invisible near-infrared laser light into any one of a panoply of visible laser colors, including red, orange, yellow and green. Their work provides a new approach to generating laser light on integrated microchips.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau released the total number of 2020 Census paid temporary workers that earned any pay Sept. 27 - Oct. 3, 2020. The data tables include national totals for all 50 states and the District of Columbia by Census Bureau regional geography. A weekly number of paid temporary workers for Puerto Rico is also available. The weekly release will occur 10 days after the end of the weekly period.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 47-year-old resident of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, has been ordered to federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - While DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) celebrates a historic achievement at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP), more work is needed to address old, contaminated structures and modernize other portions of the Oak Ridge Reservation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: Northern District Of Indiana Charged 208 Defendants.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - Members of the Oak Ridge Site Specific Advisory Board (ORSSAB) expressed pride as DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) transformed the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) for new uses they helped chart beginning 25 years ago.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: Cincinnati - Today the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) issued a Final Request for Proposal for the Portsmouth Infrastructure Support Services (Port ISS) procurement. The primary objective of this contract is to perform infrastructure services at the Portsmouth Site. Infrastructure services at the Portsmouth...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: DEATH VALLEY, CA - Fall temperatures signal the start of camping season in Death Valley National Park. Texas Springs, Sunset, and Stovepipe Wells Campgrounds will open on Thursday, October 15. At that point, all individual campsites in the park will be open.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake today sentenced Roger Taylor, a/k/a Milk, age 28, of Baltimore, to 138 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for the federal charges of conspiring to participate in a violent racketeering enterprise known as...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Keenan Smith, 29, of Philadelphia, PA was sentenced to nineteen years in prison and five years of supervised release by United States District Judge Eduardo C. Robreno for attempting to rob the Trolley Car Diner on Germantown Avenue in Northwest Philadelphia.
