News from April 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2020
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst joined the Department of Justice and communities nationwide today in observing National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, celebrating victims’ rights, protections and services throughout the week. This year’s observance takes place April 19-25 and features the theme, “Seek Justice| Ensure Victims' Rights | Inspire Hope.".
By EPA Newswire | Apr 21, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) issued the following statement on the bipartisan agreement reached on funding the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).
By DOE Newswire | Apr 21, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior and Environment Chairwoman Betty McCollum (D-MN) sent a letter today to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2020
News Release: The April 19-25 observance features the theme, “Seek Justice| Ensure Victims' Rights | Inspire Hope.".
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 21, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) issued the following statement on the bipartisan agreement reached on funding the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - With families encouraged to stay at home due to the nationwide health crisis, the Drug Enforcement Administration is asking Americans to keep prescription medications safe and secure until they can properly dispose of them.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 21, 2020
News Release: Rep. Arrington op-ed: We must also flatten the curve of rural hospital closures.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2020
News Release: Tacoma - A 23-year-old Renton, Washington, man made his first appearance today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma on a charge of second degree murder for the February beating death of a 21-year-old woman, announced U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran. The victim, a resident of California, had traveled to the Seattle area to meet up with ALEJANDRO J. AGUILERA ROJAS. The two traveled to the Sequim, Washington, area on Feb. 10, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2020
News Release: Hagatña - Shawn N. Anderson, U.S. Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands joins the Department of Justice and communities nationwide in observing National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, celebrating victims’ rights, protections and services throughout the week. This year’s observance takes place April 19-25 and features the theme, “Seek Justice| Ensure Victims' Rights | Inspire Hope.".
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - U.S. Attorney David M. DeVillers joins the Department of Justice and communities nationwide in observing National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, celebrating victims’ rights, protections and services throughout the week. This year’s observance takes place April 19-25 and features the theme, “Seek Justice | Ensure Victims' Rights | Inspire Hope.".
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2020
News Release: Republic, Mo. - Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield paid tribute recently to employees who did outstanding work in Fiscal Year 2019, a time when the park began one of the largest facilities management projects in its history. Brian Beeson, a maintenance employee, was named 2019 Employee of the Year. For the Team of the Year award, the park honored all park employees as a group for the many key projects employees collaborated on in 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announces that, RICHARD R. CEPHAS, of Wilmington, Delaware, was arrested on April 20, 2020 by the United States Marshals Service (USMS). CEPHAS turned himself in at the Federal Courthouse in Delaware, approximately eighteen days after he is alleged to have escaped from the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) in Butner, North Carolina on or about April 1, 2020.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 21, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior and Environment Chairwoman Betty McCollum (D-MN) sent a letter today to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2020
News Release: LITTLE ROCK, AR-Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Diane Upchurch of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Little Rock Field Office is pleased to announce that the 2019 FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award will be presented to Sophia Said, Chairwoman of the Madina Institute and Mosque located in Little Rock, Arkansas. Ms. Said also serves as the Executive Director of the Interfaith Center of Arkansas.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 21, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized its replacement for the Clean Water Rule, which the agency repealed in 2019.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 21, 2020
News Release: Brady: Inspector General Report Debunks Democratic Claims at Treasury, Public Has Right to Know.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Pramod Pilania, M.D., has agreed to pay $91,109 to resolve potential liability under the False Claims Act. Dr. Pilania was a psychiatrist who previously saw patients at the Northeast Community Mental Health Centers (“Northeast clinic")...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA -A former resident of Hundred, West Virginia was sentenced in federal court to time served, plus three years of supervised release, on his conviction of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin and fentanyl, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2020
News Release: ST. GEORGE, UT - A Las Vegas man, who posed as an FBI agent and then robbed Seven Oaks Fine Jewelers in St. George at gunpoint in September, is in federal custody following an investigation by the FBI and the St. George Police Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JORDAN MADDOX, 22, of Hartford, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Jeffrey A. Meyer to a fentanyl distribution offense.
