News from April 2020
By State Newswire | Apr 28, 2020
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), along with Representatives James McGovern (D-Mass.), Chris Smith (R-N.J.), Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), and Michael McCaul (R-Texas), co-sponsors ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2020
News Release: A Macomb County doctor was charged in a criminal complaint for his alleged role in a health care fraud scheme which involved submitting false claims to Medicare for services that were never rendered and/or were medically unnecessary, announced United States Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that two counties in the Western District of New York have been awarded grants under the Coronavirus Emergency Supplemental Funding Program. Niagara County and Monroe County will receive $58,008 and $52,669 respectively from the Bureau of Justice Assistance.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 28, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the launch of the $9 million American-Made Challenges: Solar Desalination Prize , a competition to accelerate the development of systems that use solar-thermal energy to produce clean water from very-high-salinity water.
By State Newswire | Apr 28, 2020
News Release: Washington D.C. - Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX), Lead Republican of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement on new rules announced today by the Department of Commerce that will strengthen controls on technology exports. In October, McCaul wrote a letter to Secretary Ross explaining the need for more robust export controls to stop China from using critical technologies for malign purposes.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today issued the following statement after reports that President Donald Trump plans to use the Defense Production Act to order meatpacking companies to stay open during the pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2020
News Release: Norfolk, VA - A joint effort between the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force and Norfolk Police Department Special Operations Team resulted in the arrest of a gang member wanted by multiple jurisdictions. Akail Allen, 20, was taken into custody without incident in Norfolk this morning.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - While taking active measures to protect the public and employees and minimize exposure to COVID-19, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) continues to reduce hazardous fuels across the West and Alaska and to plan for the upcoming fire season by maintaining and strengthening firefighting capabilities.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 28, 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 grant to the East-Central Idaho Planning & Development Association (ECIPDA) of Rexburg, Idaho, to establish a Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) to assist...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Haley Hansler, 33, of Rochester, was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for participating in a drug trafficking conspiracy and possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2020
News Release: A suspected neo-Nazi has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for a gun crime, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor today commemorated Workers’ Memorial Day with a joint statement from U.S. Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA), Loren Sweatt.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A New York man appeared in federal court today, on charges of traveling from Brooklyn to Charlotte for the purpose of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with a minor, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Manuel Oppenheimer, 26, had his initial appearance this morning before U.S. Magistrate Judge David S. Cayer.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Flasher, North Dakota, man convicted of Unlawful Taking of Bald Eagles, Unlawful Taking of Migratory Birds, and Unlawful Use of Restricted Use Pesticide was sentenced on April 2, 2020, by U.S. Magistrate Judge William D. Gerdes.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 28, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA - Tomorrow, April 29, at 11:30 a.m. EDT, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) will participate in a video discussion facilitated by the United States Conference of Mayors about the COVID-19 pandemic’s fiscal impacts on cities and the challenges these local leaders...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2020
News Release: Defendants Allegedly Conspired to Inflate the Sale Price of Scarce Respirator Masks to Enrich Themselves.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2020
News Release: St. Louis - A new St. Louis Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) Gateway Strike Force is combatting drug traffickers and violent criminals on both sides of the Mississippi River, Adam Cohen of the DOJ OCDETF Executive Office, U.S. Attorney Steve Weinhoeft in the Southern District of Illinois (SDIL), and U.S. Attorney Jeff Jensen in the Eastern District of Missouri (EDMO) announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2020
News Release: St. Louis - A new St. Louis Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) Gateway Strike Force is combatting drug traffickers and violent criminals on both sides of the Mississippi River, Adam Cohen of the DOJ OCDETF Executive Office, U.S. Attorney Steve Weinhoeft in the Southern District of Illinois (SDIL), and U.S. Attorney Jeff Jensen in the Eastern District of Missouri (EDMO) announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2020
News Release: HAGERSTOWN, Md. - Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park welcomes Christiana Hanson as the new Chief of Interpretation, Education and Volunteer Operations along the 184.5 mile national park. Ms. Hanson will oversee a team of park staff that manage public programs and visitor service operations spanning from Georgetown, in Washington D.C., to Cumberland, Maryland, including a robust and active volunteer program.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2020
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - United States Attorney Jay E. Town, Northern District of Alabama, United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin for the Middle District of Alabama, and United States Attorney Richard W. Moore for the Southern District of Alabama today announced that the State of Alabama received $9,645,679 in Department of Justice grants to respond to the challenges posed by the outbreak of COVID-19.
