News from December 2019
By EPA Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on ““Flu Season: U.S. Public Health Preparedness and Response:"
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Health Subcommittee legislative hearing on “Building Consumer Confidence by Empowering FDA to Improve Cosmetic Safety:"Today, we will discuss two legislative proposals that empower the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to more effectively regulate cosmetic and personal care products.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that FRANK GIOVINCO was convicted yesterday of conspiring to commit extortion and racketeering offenses with members and associates of the Genovese Crime Family of La Cosa Nostra following a six-day jury trial...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that KISHORE BABU AMMISETTI, 31, a citizen of India, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 28 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for operating a “provisional credit" scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: Attorney General William P. Barr and law enforcement partners today announced a concentrated effort across the country and around the world to halt money mule activity. Money mules assist fraud schemes by receiving money from victims, many of them elderly, and forwarding proceeds to foreign-based perpetrators.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: Justice Department Settles Texas Disability-Based Housing Discrimination Lawsuit.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: The FBI Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force and Aurora Police Department Need Your Help Identifying a Bank Robber.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: ST. GEORGE, Utah -The public is invited to a meeting from 4:30-7:30 p.m., Dec. 17, at the Dixie Convention Center, 1835 Convention Center Drive, St. George, 84790, to provide the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) comments on multiple projects in Washington County.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: Southern District of Mississippi Ranked First in Nation for Indictments by Medium-Sized Offices; Most Indictments, Defendants Brought to Justice in History of Mississippi in One Year; FBI Uniform Crime Report Shows 3.9 Drop in Natl Violent Crime in FY2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Attorney General William P. Barr and Justice Department leadership today announced the recipients of the Third Annual Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service in Policing, recognizing the exceptional work of 19 law enforcement officers and deputies from 12 jurisdictions across the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: Previously Deported from the United States Twice in One Week.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: Spanish-language Public Service Announcement to Publicize the Tipline Also Unveiled “We Need the Community’s Help to Fight Back".
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: Conspirators Admit Their Respective Roles in Violent Crimes in Monterey County Jail to Maintain Discipline of Gang Members and Punish Transgressions of Gang Rules.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: Nearly 650 residents and businesses in small, remote communities will gain high-speed internet access JOHN DAY, Ore., Dec. 3, 2019 — U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development State Director John Huffman today announced that USDA is providing $6 million to expand high-speed broadband infrastructure ...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: CORDOVA, Alaska, Dec. 3, 2019 – Today, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Alaska State Director for Rural Development Jerry Ward announced USDA has invested $18.88 million in high-speed broadband infrastructure that will create or improve rural e-Connectivity for nearly 270 rural households in Yakutat. This is one of many funding announcements in the first round of USDA’s ReConnect Pilot Program investments.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, Dec. 3, 2019 – USDA announces details of the 96thAgricultural Outlook Forum program, which takes place February 20-21, 2020 at the Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel in Arlington, Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: A newly unsealed superseding indictment has charged Russian and Italian nationals, a U.S. citizen and various companies in a conspiracy to evade international trade sanctions.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: International senior counterterrorism (CT) officials, academic experts, U.S. interagency representatives, and organizations dedicated to policing initiatives and extremism topics met in Washington, DC from Dec. 2 to 4, to openly discuss and address current knowledge on community-oriented policing for countering violent extremism (CVE) to further improve mutual exchanges and better connect multilateral cooperation and national implementation of CT and CVE practices.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: Attorney General William P. Barr and Justice Department leadership today announced the recipients of the Third Annual Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service in Policing, recognizing the exceptional work of 19 law enforcement officers and deputies from 12 jurisdictions across the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: Rising Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Rising), a generic pharmaceutical company headquartered in New Jersey, was charged for conspiring to fix prices and allocate customers for a generic hypertension drug, the Department of Justice announced today. According to a one-count felony charge filed today in the United ...
