News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Dante Tyler-El, age 54, of Landover, Maryland, pleaded guilty carjacking and to using, carrying and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence. Tyler-El entered his guilty plea yesterday.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
News Release: SAN JUAN, PR-Special Agent in Charge Douglas A. Leff of the FBI San Juan Field Office announced the arrest of José E. López-Piñeiro.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal judge today 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 26, 2020
News Release: El Dorado, AR - A former executive director of South Arkansas Youth Services (SAYS), an Arkansas-based nonprofit, was sentenced today to 30 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiring to unlawfully divert over $380,000 from the charity to an Arkansas state senator and the lobbying firm of a convicted lobbyist.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
News Release: RESPONSE TO QUERY. - "The safety of the American public and our employees is job one. We are working with national health authorities, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the President's Task Force, as well as state and local...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
News Release: Fort Smith, AR - David Clay Fowlkes, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced today that Jaime Leonel Reinosa-Salguero, of Springdale, Arkansas, was sentenced to 240 months in federal prison on one count of Bank Robbery and one count of Use of a Firearm During and in Relation to a Crime of Violence. The Honorable P.K. Holmes III presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fort Smith.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at a Health Subcommittee hearing titled, “The Fiscal Year 2021 HHS Budget and Oversight of the Coronavirus Outbreak."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
News Release: FBI Media Alert: Albuquerque FBI Division Accepting Applications for Summer Teen Academy.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
News Release: El Dorado, AR - A former executive director of South Arkansas Youth Services (SAYS), an Arkansas-based nonprofit, was sentenced today to 30 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiring to unlawfully divert over $380,000 from the charity to an Arkansas state senator and the lobbying firm of a convicted lobbyist.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Holyoke woman pleaded guilty today in federal court in Springfield to distributing heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
News Release: Two owners and operators of a Los Angeles pharmacy were both sentenced today to 144 months in prison for their roles in a health care fraud scheme where Medicare and CIGNA were billed more than $11.8 million in fraudulent claims for prescription drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Feb. 26, 2020 - A Nashville, Tennessee podiatrist pleaded guilty today for his role in unlawfully distributing controlled substances.
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 Homeland Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
News Release: HARLINGEN, Texas - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) welcomed three partners to the ICE Mutual Agreement between Government and Employers (IMAGE) program Tuesday during a signing ceremony.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Republicans at today’s recently concluded hearing on the ways to address climate change with public lands repeated the same years-old climate denial talking points they’ve used to reject action in previous congresses, calling their recent attempted pivot on the issue into question and underscoring Republican leadership’s inability to produce serious plans that rank-and-file members support.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM) completed installation of the first full row of anchor blocks to alleviate downhill slipping of two sections of a closed landfill at the Rocky Flats Site. In August 2019, DOE began construction work to install steel anchors, concrete...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
News Release: Washington - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today wrote.pdf) to the president of Express Scripts, a pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) owned by the Cigna Corporation, making a final request for documents as part of the committee’s investigation...
By DOE 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 DOE Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
News Release: On Monday, Feb. 10, 2020, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) rolled out its fiscal year (FY) 2021 budget request, which includes approximately $317 million for the Office of Legacy Management (LM). LM, which recently reached a long-term stewardship portfolio of 100 sites in 29 states and Puerto Rico,1 is expected to transition two additional sites by FY 2021.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Aviation Rick Larsen (D-WA) today sent a letter to Secretary Elaine Chao of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) requesting information on how DOT plans to effectively prepare for the imminent arrival of a pandemic caused by coronavirus COVID-19 on U.S. soil.
