News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: SAN JOSE - Hao Zhang was sentenced yesterday to eighteen months in prison and ordered to pay $476,835 in restitution following his conviction at trial on charges of economic espionage, theft of trade secrets, and conspiring to commit both offenses, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Harborcreek, Pennsylvania and a resident of Fairview, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of fraud conspiracy, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON. D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a rule that would ease federal limits on toxic coal ash flushed from power plants and loosen federal limits that protect people from toxic metals in wastewater that can be discharged from the same power plants.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A federal grand jury in the District of Massachusetts returned a second superseding indictment today bringing additional charges against two university athletic officials in the college admissions case.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: Kansas City, MO - United States Marshal Mark S. James announced today the capture of a homicide suspect from Tallahassee, Florida in rural Jackson County.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao announced today that the Trump Administration will award more than $1.2 billion in airport safety and infrastructure grants through the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to 405 airports in 50 states and six U.S. territories.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that Bobby Kirkendoll, 44, of Shreveport, Louisiana, was sentenced to 162 months (13 years, 6 months) in prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release for possession of cocaine with intent to distribute and possession...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) today introduced a bill to promote diversity among the broadcast media industry and support local broadcasters across U.S. communities.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is piloting a new touchless “self-service" technology that matches a traveler’s live photo with the photo on their ID. The initiative automatically authenticates a traveler’s ID, matches the live photo with the image on their ID, and confirms their flight information in near real time.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: Colorado Man Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison for Moderating Disputes on Darknet Marketplace AlphaBay.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr., announced today that Candice Johnson Dooley, 40, of Lexington, was sentenced to nearly six years in federal prison after pleading guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and cocaine.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.45 million grant to Atlantic City, New Jersey, to make stormwater infrastructure improvements needed to protect downtown businesses from flooding and facilitate...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) today introduced a bill to promote diversity among the broadcast media industry and support local broadcasters across U.S. communities.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) today introduced a bill to promote diversity among the broadcast media industry and support local broadcasters across U.S. communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Aug. 29, 2020, as a result of a joint investigation between U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Puerto Rico Police Department, and the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Puerto Rico, CBP officers seized undeclared currency totaling at least 27 million dollars. The currency was found inside boxes bound for St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Department of the Interior is delivering on its promise to facilitate the development of non-federal hydropower on Reclamation projects by soliciting proposals to lease the right to develop hydroelectric power at Taylor Park Dam, part of the Uncompahgre Project, located near...
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao announced today that the Trump Administration will award more than $1.2 billion in airport safety and infrastructure grants through the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to 405 airports in 50 states and six U.S. territories.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - The management and operations contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) recently completed a three-phase process optimization outage to create efficiencies to help DOE expedite plutonium downblending and removal from South Carolina.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: LOVELAND, Colo. - Reclamation has released the Final Pueblo Reservoir Resource Management Plan (RMP).
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), New Zealand’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC NZ) and Computer Emergency Response Team NZ (CERT NZ), Canada’s Communications Security Establishment, and the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC UK), are releasing a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory: Technical Approaches to Uncovering and Remediating Malicious Activity.
