News from February 2020
By DOE Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing titled, “The Fiscal Year 2021 EPA Budget."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven has sentenced James Bailey (33, Plant City) to seven years in federal prison for possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon. The court also ordered Bailey to forfeit the firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama, announces that Colonel Saad Taha Ahmed Yousif al-Qaysy was sentenced to three years of probation and stripped of his United States citizenship after being convicted of lying to obtain his citizenship.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Reps. Doris Matsui (D-CA), and Brett Guthrie (R-KY) released the following statement after the Senate passed the Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act (H.R. 4998 ), their bipartisan bill to help secure America’s telecommunications supply chain...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing on “Strengthening Communications Networks to Help Americans in Crisis:"
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: Knoxville, Tenn. - U.S. Attorney J. Douglas Overbey and FBI Special-Agent-in-Charge Joseph E. Carrico announced today the arrest of a researcher at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK), following the return of a federal grand jury’s indictment. Anming Hu, 51, an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering at UTK, is charged with three counts of wire fraud and three counts of making false statements.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: Dear Chair Dhillon: We write with concern regarding the dramatic decline in staffing at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) since President Trump took office and to request information about how the agency plans to ensure it has the personnel necessary to do its critical work. We especially...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Brittany Hutcherson, 28, of Lawrenceville, GA, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra Jr. to transfer of firearms to an out of state resident. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a fine of $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - Brian J. Wilson, an inmate at the United States Penitentiary in Atlanta (“USP Atlanta") has been sentenced to an additional three months in prison for using a contraband cell phone to post photographs and videos onto Facebook from his cell at the prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Missouri, man has been sentenced in federal court for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR), Reps. Doris Matsui (D-CA), and Brett Guthrie (R-KY) applauded the unanimous passage in the U.S. Senate of the Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act (H.R. 4998 ), their bipartisan bill to help secure America’s telecommunications supply chain...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at a Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing titled, “Strengthening Communications Networks to Help Americans in Crisis."
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing entitled, “The Fiscal Year 2021 EPA Budget:"
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), along with a dozen other senators, sent a letter to President Trump urging him to file a petition for a rehearing of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit's decision to invalidate hardship relief for small refineries under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $735,000 grant to the town of Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, to reconstruct a critical roadway that serves an industrial park and surrounding businesses. The EDA grant project, to be located near a Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Opportunity Zone, will be matched with $735,000 in local funds and is expected to create 200 jobs and generate $35 million in private investment.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: Elephant Butte, N.M. - In the coming days, the Bureau of Reclamation will release water for the 2020 irrigation season on the Rio Grande Project, resulting in inundation to the dry riverbed below Elephant Butte and Caballo Reservoirs.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal judge yesterday imposed a 15-year sentence on the last of four defendants in a North Alabama conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town, DEA Assistant Special Agent in Charge Clay Morris and Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms Special Agent in Charge Marcus Watson.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Elmer Leroy Kerns, of Paw Paw, West Virginia, has admitted to a sex charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that Philip Elvin Riehl, 68, of Bethel Township, Berks County, PA, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and fraud charges related to a Ponzi scheme he operated worth approximately $60 million. The fraud targeted members of the Mennonite and Amish religious communities in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, of which the defendant is a member.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - An Aurora, Missouri, man has been sentenced in federal court for receiving and distributing child pornography.
