News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former music teacher who contracted with a number of school districts in Southern California pleaded guilty today to a federal child pornography charge.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: This topic area will focus on research projects to advance perovskite efficiency and stability at the cell or mini-module scale beyond the current state of the art technology. Projects may include intrinsic and extrinsic approaches to improve stability, methods to understand and characterize degradation...
By State Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today were joined by Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Mark Warner (D-Va.), Mitt Romney (R-Utah), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), and Rob Portman ...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 13, 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) sent oversight letters to nine health and dental insurance companies today seeking information on their policies and practices amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Chairman Pallone first announced the Committee investigation last week.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: Fugitive Wanted for Murder and Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution Sought by the FBI’s Fugitive Task Force.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - The U.S. Attorney’s Office has reached a $3.5 million settlement with specialty pharmacy Advanced Care Scripts, Inc. (ACS), to resolve allegations that ACS conspired with pharmaceutical manufacturer Teva Neuroscience, Inc. (Teva), to enable Teva to pay kickbacks to Medicare patients taking Copaxone, a Teva drug approved for treatment of multiple sclerosis.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 13, 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) sent oversight letters to nine health and dental insurance companies today seeking information on their policies and practices amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Chairman Pallone first announced the Committee investigation last week.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today condemning the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) final rule to gut methane pollution standards...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: (DILLON, Mont.) - Due to the rapidly-growing Bear Creek Fire, the Bureau of Land Management’s Dillon Field Office has issued a fire prevention order temporarily closing all BLM-administered lands south of Lemhi Pass Road, west of U.S. Highway 324, and east of the Continental Divide along the Montana stateline.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: Fifteen members of the Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter today to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai urging him to provide unlimited voice minutes and mobile data to Lifeline recipients, with a corresponding increase in the support amount to cover incremental costs, for...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 13, 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) sent oversight letters to nine health and dental insurance companies today seeking information on their policies and practices amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Chairman Pallone first announced the Committee investigation last week.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Kansas man was sentenced Wednesday to six years in federal prison for heroin trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - A 35-year-old Texan has entered a guilty plea to coercion and enticement as well as receipt and possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: St. Louis - Former St. Ann Police Officer Ellis Brown has been indicted by a federal Grand Jury, United States Attorney Jeffrey B. Jensen announced today. According to the Indictment, Brown was working as an officer with the St. Ann Police Department on April 9, 2019 when he “willfully deprived" victim...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: St. Louis - Deandre J. White, 24, of St. Louis, Missouri, was charged by a federal complaint with being a felon in possession of a firearm. White will appear in court on Friday, Aug. 14, 2020, for his initial appearance in front of U.S. Magistrate David D. Noce.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: Fifteen members of the Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter today to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai urging him to provide unlimited voice minutes and mobile data to Lifeline recipients, with a corresponding increase in the support amount to cover incremental costs, for...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: Under the Consent Judgment, Rockville Centre Will Reduce Particulate Matter and Nitrogen Oxide Emissions from its Power Plant.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that SIMON HESSLER, 48, formerly of Ellington, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 347 months of imprisonment, followed by 10 years of supervised release, for child exploitation offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney’s Office will pursue carjacking defendants in federal court in support of effort to reduce dangerous trend in Louisville.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: MESA COUNTY, Colo - The Mesa County Sheriff, the Bureau of Land Management, and the Fire Chiefs representing municipalities, and fire protection districts of Mesa County are implementing Stage 2 Fire Restrictions effective at 12:01 a.m. Friday, August 14th, 2020. This order applies to all of Mesa County, including BLM-administered public lands EXCEPT for land managed by the U.S. Forest Service.
