News from February 2020
By DOL Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), issued the following statement in support of the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) final rule to update the standard for determining joint-employer status...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Census Bureau began to release the total number of 2020 Census paid temporary workers that earned any pay during a specific weekly pay period. The data tables include national totals for all 50 states and the District of Columbia by Census Bureau regional geography. A weekly number of paid temporary workers for Puerto Rico is also available. The weekly release will occur 10 days after the end of the weekly period.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 31-year-old Mexican citizen has been ordered to federal prison in money laundering conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A California woman was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for paying $300,000 to participate the college entrance exam cheating scheme and athletic recruitment scheme for her children.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky. - A Lexington businessman was convicted on Monday evening, by a federal jury sitting in Frankfort, of charges related to the obstruction of a federal investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of possessing material depicting the sexual exploitation of minors, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: Portland, Maine: A Portland tax return preparer was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Portland for preparing false tax returns, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -On Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, will hold a hearing to commemorate Black History Month by examining lessons from the civil rights movement on combating efforts to suppress the right to vote and how many of these lessons are particularly urgent in the face of similar voter suppression efforts today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: Sentencing Includes Life For Kidnapping, 360 Months For Traveling With Intent To Engage In Sexual Acts With Juvenile, $50,000 Fine, And $50,067 Restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Darwin Medina (also known as “Weezy" to his former drug customers in Franklin County) was sentenced today in federal court on one count of conspiring to distribute 280 grams or more of cocaine base and one count of conspiring ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Sacramento, Calif., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for carrying more than two kilograms of cocaine aboard a train traveling through Kansas City, in a case that was investigated by the Kansas City Interdiction Task Force and the Drug Enforcement Administration St. Louis Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A federal judge ruled today that a nonprofit seeking to open a facility in Philadelphia for the injection of illegal drugs would not violate a federal drug law known commonly as the federal “crack house statute." The decision by United States District Court Judge Gerald A. McHugh in favor of nonprofit Safehouse makes final a prior ruling and paves the way for a showdown on appeal.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: Bipartisan legislation introduced in the House today will ensure the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) does not attempt to take back disaster assistance funds it has mistakenly awarded to victims who applied for the help in good faith and spent the money to begin rebuilding their lives.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to steal high-end sport utility vehicles and pick-ups from out-of-state dealerships and transport them to Kansas City for sale on the black market.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: Portland, Maine: A Dominican national residing in Massachusetts was sentenced today in federal court in Portland for conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ranking Republican Rob Bishop (R-Utah) released thefollowing statement on the confirmation of Katharine MacGregor as Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI).
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: House Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal announced today that the Committee will hold a hearing on the “Proposed Fiscal Year 2021 Budget with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin" on Tuesday, March 3, 2020 at 9:00 AM in room 1100 Longworth House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: Jury Finds Wisconsin Dentist Guilty of Tax Evasion.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of DuBois, Pa. has been sentenced in federal court in Johnstown to ten years’ supervised release with 12 months home detention on his conviction of possession of child pornography, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
