News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: A man who allegedly threatened to commit a church shooting in Lubbock has been charged with a firearm offense following an investigation led by FBI Dallas’ Lubbock Resident Agency with support from ATF and HSI, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Erich Deolax Riker, 44, of Portales, New Mexico, appeared in federal court Friday, August 7, for an arraignment on an indictment charging him with failure to register as a sex offender.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) introduced bipartisan legislation to extend the current year-end deadline for states to use federal CARES Act assistance, as well as any future funding to state and local governments, through 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams announced today that Robert J. Jesenik, 61, a former chief executive officer of Aequitas Management, LLC and several other Aequitas-owned entities, has been indicted along with three other former company executives for their roles in a fraud and money laundering conspiracy.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar addressing concerns that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the ongoing substance use disorder (SUD) and overdose crisis in the United States, which the country has been battling...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) today voiced concern that Facebook’s new Oversight Board does not have the power it needs to change...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Today, the Bureau of Reclamation submitted the B.F. Sisk Dam Safety of Dams Modification Report to Congress. This is Reclamation’s largest project under the 1978 Safety of Dams Act, and when complete, will modernize the structure to reduce risk to water supply and downstream communities in an earthquake.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A San Fernando Valley man now believed to have fled the United States today faces federal criminal charges today for allegedly obtaining more than $860,000 in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans for a shell company and then transferring the bulk of his illicit gains to his personal bank accounts.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - On August 5, 2020, Savannah Grissum, 22, of Douglasville, Georgia, and Alonzo Dean Westmoreland, 31, of Kennesaw, Georgia, were sentenced by the Honorable Curtis L. Collier in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - An admitted fentanyl and cocaine trafficker arrested one day after he fled members of the FBI Safe Streets Task Force during an April 2019 investigation into his drug trafficking activities was sentenced today to 10 years in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Aaron L. Weisman and Joseph R. Bonavolonta, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Boston Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA, PA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that Patrick Shaknitz, 29, of Croydon, PA, has been arrested and charged by Complaint with one count each of distribution and attempted distribution of child pornography. These charges arise out of the defendant’s alleged distribution of images and videos of child pornography to others, including undercover federal agents, over the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Defendant Also Indicted for Defrauding the Archdiocese of Washington.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Despite limitations due to the COVID-19 pandemic, students have been interning across the EM complex this summer with the help of creativity, technology, and a desire to learn.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar addressing concerns that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the ongoing substance use disorder (SUD) and overdose crisis in the United States, which the country has been battling...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $8.4 million grant to the city of Council Bluffs, Iowa, to make flood control infrastructure improvements needed to protect businesses and make the region...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) wrote to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert R. Redfield, M.D. today requesting a briefing on the concerning impacts of COVID-19 on the nation’s children and young people.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH) released the following statement on the White House’s announcement that it would make 100 MHz of mid-band spectrum in the 3.45-3.55 GHz band immediately available for non-federal, commercial wireless use.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar addressing concerns that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the ongoing substance use disorder (SUD) and overdose crisis in the United States, which the country...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar addressing concerns that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the ongoing substance use disorder (SUD) and overdose crisis in the United States, which the country...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $1.1 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to three EDA Economic Development District organizations across California to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
