News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that NATHANIEL DeJESUS, 20, of Hartford, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to fentanyl and crack cocaine distribution offenses.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the top Republican on the Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released legislative text of the Consumer Protections Against Surprise Medical Bills Act of 2020, the Committee’s proposal to better shield patients...
By State Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
News Release: Dear Secretary Pompeo: On March 14, 2019, as part of its investigation into politically-motivated retaliation against State Department personnel, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (the “Committees") requested that the Department produce documents and make...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
Release: Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Chair of the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on the Fiscal Year 2021 budget request for the Department of Health and Human Services.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management completed a critical action to allow for responsible coal development on federal lands. The BLM has released the final environmental assessment (EA) and Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for lifting the pause on processing...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA, PA - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has launched an initiative to have agency inspections focus on reducing workplace hazards that can lead to amputation injuries for workers in Pennsylvania’s manufacturing industry.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS-A Washington woman who admitted trafficking methamphetamine as part of a large drug distribution ring was sentenced today to 10 years in prison and five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
News Release: Physician Charged for Alleged Role in an Over $120 Million Health Care Fraud and Money Laundering Conspiracy Involving Sponsorship of Ultimate Fighting Championship Hall of Famers.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - U.S. Attorney Byung J. “BJay" Pak announced today that the Northern District of Georgia was directly and jointly responsible for over $169 million in criminal and civil collections for Fiscal Year 2019. Included in this amount were funds paid directly to the Northern District of Georgia of...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - Roads in Yellowstone National Park will begin to close to oversnow travel on March 1. Spring plowing will start as road segments close. All oversnow travel will end for the season March 15, at 9 p.m. Weather permitting, some park roads will reopen to automobile travel April 17, at 8 a.m.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
Release: Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40), Chair of the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on the Fiscal Year 2021 budget request for the Department of Homeland Security.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
News Release: EUGENE, Ore.-A federal grand jury in Eugene returned an indictment last week charging a Bend, Oregon resident with using a microbrewery equipment company to defraud customers of more than $800,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
News Release: Indianapolis - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today, Donald Rudolph, 22, and Dorian Hayden, 24, both of Indianapolis, are currently in federal custody following federal charges for illegal possession of firearms and narcotics.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A citizen of Honduras was indicted today on charges of unlawfully re-entering the United States and attacking immigration officers when they took him into custody in Kansas, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Dermot Shea, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), announced...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
News Release: AMARILLO, TX - The Bureau of Land Management plans to conduct a 1,000-acre prescribed burn at the Cross Bar Management Area, approximately 15 miles north of Amarillo, TX, when weather conditions are optimal and safe. The prescribed burn will occur between Feb. 29 - March 7, 2020.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) announced today that the Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Wednesday, March 4, at 10:30 am in room 2322 Rayburn House Office Building on recycling...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - The United States Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Louisiana announced that DARREN M. MARTIN, age 44, a resident of Madisonville, Louisiana, was charged on Feb. 20, 2020 with one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, TX - A 43-year-old former resident of San Antonio has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction for conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Steven S. Whipple and U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that NATHANIEL DeJESUS, 20, of Hartford, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to fentanyl and crack cocaine distribution offenses.
