News from April 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2020
News Release: Christina E. Nolan, the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont, announced today that the public document repository required by the Jan. 27, 2020, Deferred Prosecution Agreement (“DPA") between her office and electronic medical record vendor Practice Fusion, Inc. is now live. The DPA provisionally...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2020
News Release: DOJ Agrees to Civil Settlement with Additional Firm Involved in Bid Rigging and Fraud Targeting Defense Department Fuel Supply Contracts for U.S. Military Bases in South Korea.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 8, 2020
News Release: Yankton, SD - The National Park Service (NPS), Missouri National Recreational River is announcing modifications to operations to implement the latest guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), and local and state authorities to promote social distancing. As of April...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, David Sundberg, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Hartford Police Chief Jason Thody announced that four Hartford residents were arrested today on federal criminal complaints charging them with narcotics distribution offenses. During today’s joint operation, investigators also found and seized 12 firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2020
News Release: MIAMI, Florida -- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida and Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigations (IRS-CI), Miami Field Office, are warning taxpayers to be alert about possible scams relating to COVID-19 economic impact payments.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2020
News Release: 12 guns seized during joint FBI Task Force and HPD operation.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 8, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today spoke with Neil Cavuto on Fox Business Network to discuss the congressional response to coronavirus and its impact on the global economy.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 8, 2020
News Release: Dear President Trump: According to reports, on Friday, April 3, you placed Intelligence Community Inspector General (IC IG) Michael Atkinson on administrative leave for thirty days pending his removal from office. As you know, Congress created inspectors general to combat waste, fraud, and abuse, and...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 8, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is reminding employers that it is illegal to retaliate against workers because they report unsafe and unhealthful working conditions during the coronavirus pandemic. Acts of retaliation can include terminations, demotions, denials of overtime or promotion, or reductions in pay or hours.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 8, 2020
News Release: As the country has witnessed over the last couple weeks and months, crises like the COVID-19 outbreak and large-scale disasters like floods, tornadoes, and wildfires create significant disruption to our daily life. These threats are changing how government, researchers, and innovators are working together...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2020
News Release: Beware of scammers trying to get your personal information or your COVID-19 Economic Impact Payment!.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 8, 2020
News Release: Effective immediately, Chamizal National Memorial will be closed to all visitors until further notice in response to guidance from the El Paso County public health department. .
By Interior Newswire | Apr 8, 2020
News Release: In keeping with guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state and local health authorities, and acting out of an abundance of caution, we are joining other community organizations in cancelling the wild horse and burro event scheduled for April 14, at the Pauls Valley Off-Range...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Parmelee, South Dakota, man convicted of Domestic Assault by an Habitual Offender was sentenced on April 6, 2020, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 8, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), released the following statement on President Trump’s recent attacks on the Inspectors General of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Defense (DoD).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, DAVID BURLEY, 67, Bayboro, Nc was named in a Criminal Information filed on April 6, 2020 charging him with False Statement or Fraud to Obtain Federal Employee’s Compensation. If convicted, he faces up to one-year imprisonment, a $100,000 fine, and up to one year supervised release.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 8, 2020
News Release: U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today thanked the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Energy Information Administration (EIA) for quickly prioritizing her request to publish timely data on U.S. oil storage capacity.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 8, 2020
News Release: Paper Forms Sent to Households to Remind Them to Respond.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2020
News Release: In San Antonio, 39-year-old Christopher Charles Perez is charged with allegedly perpetrating a COVID-19-related hoax, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and FBI San Antonio Division Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 8, 2020
News Release: Cincinnati - Today, the Office of Environmental Management (EM) is awarding an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract for Technical Support Services to S&K Federal Services, LLC, (St. Ignatius, Montana) an 8(a) Tribally Owned Corporation. The IDIQ contract value is $22 million, with a 5-year ordering period of performance. The contract is to support the Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center (EMCBC) and EM Small Sites across the DOE Complex.
