News from August 2020
By Commerce 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: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $18.6 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to capitalize and administer Revolving Loan Funds (RLFs) that will provide critical gap financing to small businesses and entrepreneurs that have been adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic across Texas.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $13.9 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to capitalize and administer Revolving Loan Funds (RLFs) that will provide critical gap financing to small businesses and entrepreneurs that have been adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic across Virginia.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $20 million in funding to advance perovskite solar photovoltaic technologies. Perovskites are a family of materials with a specific crystal structure, named after the mineral with that structure. When used to create solar cells, ...
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 DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - A former member of the City of Meridian Police Department has been charged in a federal indictment with extortion under color of official right, announced United States Attorney Mike Hurst and Michelle A. Sutphin, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON, TX-He was not faster than a speeding bullet, nor did he leap tall buildings in a single bound, but a man dubbed the “Justice League Dropout," wore a gray baseball cap emblazoned with the Superman emblem while robbing a bank in West Houston on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020. The FBI Violent Crime...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, John B. DeVito, Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (“ATF"), Dermot Shea, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD")...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: Today, House Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC), House Oversight and Reform Committee Republican Leader James Comer (R-KY), and Republican members of the Oversight Committee sent a letter to Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos probing the lawfulness of local orders prohibiting private and parochial schools from safely reopening and providing in-person instruction to students.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return of an indictment charging Jason Cory (47, Jacksonville) with three counts of wire fraud and one count of money laundering. If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in federal prison for each count of wire fraud and up...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: Ten individuals were separately charged by complaint or indictment during the past week in the Eastern District of New York with being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOE 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 DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced the release of a ‘Back the Blue’ video supporting law enforcement in West Virginia and across the country. The video features Stuart, along with several staff members of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of West Virginia, voicing support for law enforcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - The chief executive officer of Central Rexall Drugs Inc., a Louisiana pharmacy used by numerous individuals to defraud New Jersey health benefits programs and other insurers out of more than $50 million, has admitted her guilt, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: During the current executive order on the Crow Reservation that requests Tribal residents remain at home, Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area will continue to operate most facilities and services.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -Yvon Loretto, of Nambe Pueblo, New Mexico, pleaded guilty in federal court in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on August 11th to abusive sexual contact in Indian Country.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the unsealing of three separate indictments against OLUFEMI OLUWASEUN BANJO, a/k/a “Femi Banjo," 37, FRANCIS NWABUEZE IWUOHA, 38, and OLUWADAMILARE GBENGA MACAULAY, 32, charging them with wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiracy. The defendants are at large and believed to be in Nigeria.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, Aug. 12, 2020 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced the availability of assistance for agricultural producers in the Midwest affected by the recent severe weather to help eligible farmers and ranchers reestablish their operations.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that it has obtained a Temporary Restraining Order in federal court to combat fraud related to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The enforcement action, filed in Tampa, Florida, is part of the Justice Department’s ongoing efforts prioritizing the detection, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: A Las Vegas area resident charged with perpetrating a prize-notification scheme that bilked victims out of more than $10 million pleaded guilty today, the Department of Justice announced.
