News from April 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Antonio Dewayne Adams, 40, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has been sentenced to 120 months in prison for illegally possessing a firearm while being a convicted felon, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing. That firearm was discovered by law enforcement responding to a domestic violence call.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee members held a bipartisan teleconference forum with National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., today on the ongoing response to the coronavirus pandemic.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: THURMONT, Md. - Due to increased security measures, portions of Catoctin Mountain Park will be closed effective 2 P.M Friday, May 1, 2020. Closures are scheduled to continue through approximately 5 P.M. Sunday, May 3, 2020.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee members held a bipartisan teleconference forum with National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., today on the ongoing response to the coronavirus pandemic.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Ranking Members Sam Graves (R-MO) and Aviation Subcommittee Ranking Member Garret Graves (R-LA) commended the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today for actions it is taking to safely provide regulatory relief for the general aviation (GA) community due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Today U.S. Attorney David L. Anderson announced that the Department of Justice has devoted law enforcement resources to address housing-related sexual harassment resulting from the current COVID-19 crisis. The Department of Justice remains vigilant in investigating and prosecuting wrongdoing related to the pandemic, including sexual harassment by landlords, property managers, maintenance workers, loan officers or other people who have control over housing.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: Tampa, FL - The Attorney General has directed U.S. Attorney’s Offices across the nation to investigate reports of sexual harassment in housing as the nation mounts its response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, U.S. Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez reaffirms her commitment to combat these predatory practices...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: Knoxville, Tenn. - Luis Daniel Hernandez Mendoza, 31, a citizen of Mexico, has been charged in a criminal complaint, which is supported by an affidavit, in case number 3:20-MJ 2110, with possession with intent to distribute 20 kilos of cocaine. An initial appearance is scheduled for Friday, May 1, at 2:00 p.m., in United States District Court in Knoxville, before the Honorable H. Bruce Guyton, United States Magistrate Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr. announced today that Tina Brown, 45, of Bronx, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud affecting a financial institution, was sentenced to six months home detention by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. The defendant was also ordered to pay restitution totaling $220,042.17 to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and Citibank.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) sent a letter to Department of the Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Charles Rettig requesting the IRS promptly provide a public briefing on the COVID-19 economic impact...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: "As recently highlighted in the Nuclear Fuel Working Group report, nuclear power is a crucial component of our energy infrastructure that provides reliable, clean energy to our grid. It is disappointing to see Indian Point Unit 2 shut down 4 years prior to its operating license expiring. The power plant...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: Washington - As part of its efforts to enforce the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) and ensure fair trading practices within the U.S. produce industry, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative complaint under the PACA against Old West Export Inc. The company, operating from California, allegedly failed to make payment promptly to five produce sellers in the amount of $1,059,875 from March 2018 through November 2018.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Susan Collins (R-ME) and Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) led a group of bipartisan senators in urging the USDA to target COVID-19 relief provisions to reach local farmers in the new Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP). USDA created CFAP to administer relief ...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr., Chairman of the Energy & Commerce Committee, and Congressman James E. Clyburn, House Majority Whip and Chairman of the House Democratic Rural Broadband Task Force, along with 10 members of the Rural Broadband Task Force and Energy & Commerce Committee, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: Morphine, PPE, and other medical supplies taken.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) today urged Health and Human Service (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar to develop a national COVID-19 contact tracing strategy and stressed the need to increase the nation’s contact tracing capacity. The Committee leaders made their request today in a letter to Azar.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Jawad Khalaf, 72, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Nashat Khalaf, 73, of Gallup, New Mexico, Sterling Islands, Inc., a wholesale jewelry business in Albuquerque, and Al-Zuni Global Jewelry, Inc., a wholesale jewelry business in Gallup, pleaded guilty in federal court in Albuquerque today...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - Two out of state murder suspects were arrested by the U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force yesterday.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Lee D. Weiss, 51, of Newton, Massachusetts, was charged by Information with six counts of wire fraud and two counts of mail fraud. The charges stem from Weiss’s multi-year investment scam that targeted his own clients and caused investor losses of more than $10 million.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee members held a bipartisan teleconference forum with National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., today on the ongoing response to the coronavirus pandemic.
