News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: Online Harassment Campaign Involved Multiple “Swatting" Incidents in which False Requests Triggered Armed Law Enforcement Responses to a Victim’s Residence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted 15 defendants on federal racketeering and drug conspiracy charges at the Jessup Correctional Institution (JCI), including correctional officers, inmates, and outside “facilitators," for allegedly paying bribes to correctional officers to smuggle...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: DENVER - A former police officer was sentenced in federal court Wednesday to 10 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for possessing images of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced that U.S. District Judge Brian A. Jackson sentenced Wallace Byers, age 60, of Miami, Florida, to 121 months in federal prison following his conviction for wire fraud. The Court further sentenced Byers to three years of supervised release following his term of imprisonment, and ordered him to pay restitution in the amount of $6,880,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Timothy Allen Crowe, of Bridgeport, West Virginia, has admitted to a firearms charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: FORT WAYNE - Jeremiah Montel, age 40, of Fort Wayne, Indiana was sentenced before U.S. District Court Judge Holly A. Brady upon his guilty plea to the sexual exploitation of minors, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement after House Education and Labor Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee finished marking up their respective proposals to end surprise medical billing.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Rashad Nashid, age 39, was sentenced on Feb. 10, 2020 to 150 months in jail by Judge William K. Sessions III in United States District Court in Burlington, Vermont. Nashid had previously pleaded guilty to two counts of possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Judge Sessions also imposed a three-year period of supervised release to be served after Nashid completes his jail sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: Remarks by United States Attorney William M. McSwain at the Union League of Philadelphia's annual Lincoln Day Celebration.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), and Chair of the Subcommittee on Aviation Rick Larsen (D-WA) issued the following statements regarding the U.S. Department of Transportation Inspector General report on FAA’s safety oversight of Southwest Airlines.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: Washington - As part of its efforts to enforce the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) and ensure fair trading practices within the U.S. produce industry, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on four produce businesses for failing to meet their contractual obligations...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at a Health Subcommittee hearing titled, “Saving Energy: Legislation to Improve Energy Efficiency and Storage."
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ranking Republican Rob Bishop (R-Utah) and Committee Republicans slammed Democrats at a scheduled markup on their intent to grant Chairman Grijalva (D-Ariz.) unilateral subpoena authority. The resolution, which advanced on a party-line vote, would wipe out input of Minority members, take Committee decision making behind closed doors, and provide unchecked subpoena authority over private citizens and agencies.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: Starting this Friday, Feb. 14, the Denali Park Road will be open as far as the Mountain Vista Rest Area (mile 12) for travel by private vehicles and commercial vehicles with permits. This opening occurs routinely each season, as weather permits. Visitors should expect to encounter snow and ice on shaded sections of the park road.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- Acting United States Attorney A. Lance Crick announced today that Glenn Quanta Pernell, 41, and Joseph Umphlett, Sr., 39, both inmates in the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC), have been sentenced in federal court for their roles in separate major drug trafficking rings run from inside prison walls using contraband cell phones.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA: A South Georgia pharmacy and its pharmacist are accused in a newly filed federal civil complaint with dispensing thousands of highly addictive controlled substances in violation of the Controlled Substances Act.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Health Subcommittee hearing on, “Protecting Women’s Access to Reproductive Health Care:"
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at a Health Subcommittee hearing titled, “Protecting Women’s Access to Reproductive Health Care."
By DOE Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette announced that the first round of winners has been named in the Department of Energy’s Grid Optimization (GO) Competition. The GO Competition, managed by DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA‑E) is a series of challenges to develop...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to a scheme to defraud numerous life insurance companies.
