News from April 2020
By DOE Gazette | Apr 24, 2020
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on April 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 24, 2020
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on April 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | Apr 24, 2020
The US State Department published a one page notice on April 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Apr 24, 2020
News Release: Cape Air Exemption Today, the U.S. Department of Transportation is taking action on a request for exemption from the CARES Act airline service obligations announced in Order 2020-4-2. The Department has granted the request of Cape Air to reduce its services at New York John F. Kennedy International ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2020
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Today, United States Attorney David C. Weiss and Delaware Attorney General Kathleen Jennings announced the formation of a new Coronavirus (COVID-19) Anti-Fraud Coalition, aimed at better protecting the citizens of Delaware from criminal and civil fraud arising from the pandemic. The...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 24, 2020
News Release: “Thank you, Madame Speaker. “The coronavirus launched an unprecedented attack on America’s health and the best economy our nation had experienced in decades. “America responded with an unprecedented effort to contain the virus, led by President Trump and the health care community. Congress responded...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 24, 2020
News Release: Washington - As part of its commitment to ensuring fair and competitive markets for the livestock, meat and poultry industries, on April 17, 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reached a consent decision against Larson Livestock, Inc. and Carson Larson (Larson) of Columbia, S.D., for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 24, 2020
News Release: House Agriculture Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture Chairman Jim Costa of California sent a letter to United States Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue in the wake of the second death of a USDA meat inspector due to COVID-19. Costa raised concerns about a directive issued on April 9,...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 24, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Fossil Energy announced up to $131 million for carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) research and development (R&D) projects through one new funding opportunity announcement (FOA) and the winners of five project selections from a previous FOA.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 24, 2020
Release: Washington, DC, April 24, 2020 - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced approval of a request from Vermont to provide online purchasing of food to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) households. This approval will allow the State to expedite the implementation of online...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a duo from Chicago, IL, convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 24, 2020
News Release: Dear Madam Speaker: On April 2, 2020, you announced your intention to create a new select committee to review the Administration’s ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Yesterday, without any further debate, the Chairman of the Rules Committee introduced H.Res. 935, a resolution authorizing the...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 24, 2020
News Release: Hope In Crisis: Americans Volunteer To Get Supplies to the Frontline.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2020
News Release: A federal court entered a permanent injunction halting a purported “ozone therapy" center in Dallas from offering unproven treatments for COVID-19, U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that Jesse Peters, 45, of Lake Worth, Florida, has been sentenced to 15 months and one day of imprisonment, three years of supervised release, and restitution of $3,405,065 for one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2020
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California unsealed charges today in a criminal complaint charging Carmelita Barela and Rosetta Shabazz with committing robbery affecting interstate commerce in connection with a scheme to steal merchandise from a Walgreens while claiming to have COVID-19, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia, in conjunction with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, reminds citizens the law enforcement mission of the Justice Department to detect, investigate, and prosecute wrongdoing during the COVID-19 crisis continues. A crucial part of this mission is ensuring all citizens are free from harassment or discrimination because of their ethnicity.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 24, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after the United States Trade Representative (USTR) notified Congress that it plans to enter the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) into force on July 1, 2020...
By State Newswire | Apr 24, 2020
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, along with Senators Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), Mitt Romney (R-Utah), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Rand Paul (R-Ky.), ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2020
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert for the District of the Virgin Islands announced that a complaint has been filed charging Akeem Julien with Possession of a Firearm with an Obliterated Serial Number, Possession of a Firearm within a school zone and Unauthorized Possession of a Firearm within the Territory of the Virgin Islands.
