News from August 2020
By EPA Newswire | Aug 21, 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) sent a series of oversight letters to pharmacies, pharmacy benefit managers and the relevant trade associations today as...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that James Aaron Stevens, 46, of Kodiak, will plead guilty to one count of false labeling, a Lacey Act violation, for knowingly submitting false records concerning the locations and regulatory areas where fish were harvested.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: SMOKE FROM THE NEW LONE STAR FIRE TEMPORARLY CLOSES ROAD IN YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced today the Indictment of RODERICK HICKMAN (“HICKMAN"), age 49, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana; LOIS RUSSELL (“RUSSELL"), age 61, of Gibson, Louisiana; JAMES WILLIAMS (“WILLIAMS"), age 65, of Gibson, Louisiana; TANYA GIVENS (“GIVENS")...
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes a $576,400 civil penalty against Bluefin Aviation Services of Opa-Locka, Fla., for allegedly conducting illegal charter flights.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau announced today the new 2020 Census User Experience Survey, a survey measuring how satisfied respondents were with their online experience with the 2020 Census questionnaire. The data collection for the online response satisfaction survey began Aug. 17 and will end in October. The 2020 Census marks the first time households have been invited to respond online using a computer, smartphone or tablet.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: Minnesota Man Charged with COVID-Relief Fraud and Money Laundering.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
Release: HONLULU - The Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) “cutest canine" contest is in its final stages and the public is invited to raise a paw for their favorite canine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A former Army Green Beret was arrested today for allegedly conspiring with Russian intelligence operatives to provide them with United States national defense information.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A federal grand jury in Pittsburgh has returned two separate, but related, Indictments following a five-month Title III wiretap investigation into drug trafficking and violence in and around Wilkinsburg and the East Hills neighborhood in Pittsburgh, United States Attorney Scott Brady announced today. The Indictments charge 26 residents of western Pennsylvania with narcotics trafficking and firearms violations.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: Cane River Creole National Historical Park will partner with the City of Natchitoches to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment and women’s right to vote by illuminating the historic Texas and Pacific Railroad Depot on the evening of Wednesday, August 26. The structure, located at 607 Trudeau St/Depot St, will be lit from 8 pm to 10 pm.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 21, 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) sent a series of oversight letters to pharmacies, pharmacy benefit managers and the relevant trade associations today as...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: LEXINGTON, KY- A Lexington man, Michael R. McReynolds Jr., 32, was sentenced to 166 months on Friday, before Chief United States District Judge Danny Reeves, to Hobbs Act robbery and carrying and using a firearm during a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: ATHENS, Ga. - Two defendants arrested during “Operation End Game," a multi-agency effort targeting and arresting adult perpetrators in the Athens-area seeking sex with children, were sentenced to prison this week for their crimes, said Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the unsealing of a federal indictment charging KYLE WILLIAM BRENIZER, 32, with fraudulently obtaining $841,000 in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans intended to provide relief for small businesses affected by COVID-19.[1] The indictment...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $1.6 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to four EDA Economic Development District organizations in Tennessee to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Charlestown man was arrested yesterday and charged in connection with trafficking in firearms obtained from a straw purchaser in New Hampshire.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Randall Farnham, 35, of Gallup, New Mexico, was sentenced on Aug. 18, 2020 in federal court in Albuquerque to 120 months in prison for assault resulting in serious bodily injury of a child under the age of 18 in Indian Country. Upon release from prison, Farnham also will be subject to five years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman announced that a federal grand jury sitting in Cleveland has returned a four-count indictment charging Yaser Najjar, age 58, of Westlake with attempt to evade and defeat income tax.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 21, 2020
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) reaffirmed its August 14 decision regarding President Donald Trump’s illegal appointments of Chad Wolf as the Acting Secretary of Homeland Security and Ken Cuccinelli as the Senior Official Performing the Duties of Deputy Secretary.
