News from August 2020
By DOE 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 Commerce 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 DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - On Monday, Aug. 10, 2020, U.S. District Judge Frank D. Whitney sentenced Jeremy McQuage, 41, of Morven, N.C. to 160 months in prison on child pornography charges, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Morven was also ordered to serve a lifetime of supervised release, and to register as a sex offender after he completes his prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of McKeesport, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Braudio Mendoza, 33 of Atlanta, Georgia, was sentenced to 235 months in prison and five years of supervised release late yesterday for trafficking methamphetamine, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) commended the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) for releasing state COVID-19 testing plans for July through December.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, called for a coordinated federal response to households in Michigan and across the country that received unsolicited packages of seeds in the mail.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper, top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester, a member of the House Energy and Commerce Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee, sent a letter to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - The former leader of the Fitchburg Chapter of the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (“Latin Kings") pleaded guilty today to racketeering conspiracy charges.
By DOE 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 Homeland Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Appropriations Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey, House Budget Chairman John Yarmuth, and House Oversight and Reform Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney sent a, Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), requesting documentation on the apportionment of appropriations in the remaining weeks of this fiscal year after the Director failed to assure the House leaders that OMB would not abuse the apportionment process.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Work is progressing on many fronts toward transferring 1,936 highly radioactive cesium and strontium capsules to safer, dry storage at the Hanford Site.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) commended the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) for releasing state COVID-19 testing plans for July through December.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) commended the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) for releasing state COVID-19 testing plans for July through December.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Mario Figueroa-Portalatin, age 41, of Troy, New York, pled guilty today to conspiring to distribute at least 10 kilograms of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Ernest Green, a/k/a Fire, 37, of Buffalo, NY, with being a felon in possession of a firearm. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 10, 2020
News Release: VIENNA, Va.- Girl Scouts can now earn a commemorative 19th Amendment patch from Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts. Through this new online program, troops and individual Girl Scouts will learn about the 19th Amendment, the women’s suffrage movement and Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts’ unique roots in women’s history.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 10, 2020
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Two unlawfully present fugitives were arrested by agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Alabama, July 22.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A disbarred Beverly Hills lawyer pleaded guilty today to a federal criminal charge for scheming to steal more than $500,000 from a client he represented in bankruptcy proceedings and then use part of the money to pay off a $75,000 debt.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A federal grand jury today indicted a Florida man for evading over $61 million in income taxes from 2016 through 2018, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
