News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Passaic County, New Jersey, woman today admitted participating in a scheme that involved the creation of false documentation to secure over $4 million in bank loans, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - United States Attorneys Mike Hurst of the Southern District of Mississippi and William C. Lamar of the Northern District of Mississippi announced today that they have appointed District Election Officers (“DEO") in their respective Districts to lead the efforts of their offices in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming Nov. 3, 2020, general election.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Charles Regalbuto, 27, of New York City, was sentenced to serve 37 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - David Joe Melendrez, 56, of Mescalero, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Mescalero Apache Tribe, was sentenced in federal court in Albuquerque today to 22 years in prison for abusive sexual contact.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) issued the following statement in response to the U.S. Department of Treasury’s (Treasury) decision to ensure payments to the New York Fire Department (FDNY) World Trade Center Health Program would no longer be subject to offsets for unrelated federal debts owed by New York City...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman announced that a federal grand jury sitting in Cleveland has returned a nine-count indictment charging David C. Johnson, age 33, of Euclid with four counts of robbery, four counts of brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: EUGENE, Ore.-A Bend, Oregon resident was sentenced to 36 months’ imprisonment today for running an illicit Butane Honey Oil (BHO) extraction lab on rural Bend property, announced U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA), and Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) wrote to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) raising...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: Department of Justice Files Complaint Against California Company To Stop Distribution of Adulterated Animal Drugs.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $18 million to fund operations and user support at ten high-intensity laser facilities at national laboratories and universities across the United States and Canada.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2020
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Charles Heath Thompson, 44, of Shreveport, was sentenced today for receipt of child pornography, Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced. United States District Judge S. Maurice Hicks, Jr. sentenced Thompson to 120 months (10 years) in prison followed by 5 years of supervised release. Thompson pleaded guilty to the charge on Jan. 24, 2020.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated five Nebraska counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Dundy, Hitchcock, Keith, Kimball and Perkins counties who suffered losses caused by recent drought may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 26, 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 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, to assist Oklahoma manufacturers in Northeast and Central Oklahoma respond to the coronavirus pandemic. The EDA grant will be matched with $485,000 in local funds and is expected to create 500 jobs.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn today announced that Timothy Hummel, age 26, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was sentenced to time served, followed by 3 years on supervised release for threatening to murder federal law enforcement officers. Hummel appeared at the sentencing hearing remotely while free on bond. The Denver office of the FBI and the Federal Protective Service (FPS) joined in today’s announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - An Orange County man was sentenced today to 46 months in federal prison for running a program that purported to offer short-term loans, but was nothing more than an investment scam that caused more than $3 million in losses to victims.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: For months, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has worked side by side with state, local, and private sector partners to ensure a safe and effective response to COVID-19 across its component offices.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C., Oct. 26, 2020) – On November 6, 2020 at 3:00 p.m. EST, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will release select tables prepared for the upcoming USDA Agricultural Projections to 2030 report. USDA will post online tables containing long-term supply, use, and price projections ...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: ReConnect Funding to Connect 2,244 Rural Households to High-Speed Internet e-Connectivity YADKINVILLE, N.C., Oct. 26, 2020 – The Trump Administration today announced that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $2.3 million to provide broadband service in unserved and underserved rural areas in North Carolina. This investment is part of the $550 million Congress allocated to the second round of the ReConnect Program.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C., Oct. 26, 2020) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced that in the first month of the application period, the USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) approved more than $7 billion in payments to producers in the second round of the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program. CFAP 2 provides agricultural producers with financial assistance to help absorb some of the increased marketing costs associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has reached a settlement with the City of Houston resolving allegations that personnel at Houston Fire Department (HFD) Station 54 discriminated and retaliated against former firefighter Jane Draycott in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of ...
