News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Kamlesh Gopal Pardasani, 49, of Waxhaw, N.C., appeared in court this morning in Charlotte, on federal charges related to an $800,000 investment scheme he allegedly orchestrated, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. The federal indictment...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -On Thursday, January 9, 2020, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, will hold a hearing on the Census Bureau’s preparations for the 2020 Decennial Census, including efforts to reach hard-to-count communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: Bangor, Maine: A Bangor woman was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Bangor for conspiring to distribute heroin, fentanyl and cocaine base (crack), U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Robert Allen Bowman, of Fairmont, West Virginia, was indicted today on child pornography charges, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Republican Leader Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after members of the Senate introduced key elements of H.R. 19, the “Lower Costs, More Cures" Act, all of whose provisions are bipartisan and would lower drug costs for Americans without limiting access to cures...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Republican Leader Kevin Brady (R-TX) offered the following statement on the successful passage of the implementation bill for USMCA...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty plea of ROBERT LEE JOURDAIN, SR., 26, to one count of robbery. JOURDAIN entered his plea today before Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota. On Dec. 19, 2019, JOURDAIN’s co-defendant COURTNEY JOHN BARRETT, JR., 30, also pleaded guilty to one count of robbery. The defendants will be sentenced at a later date.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: Washington - CTA Inc., has satisfied a reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By Interior Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials closed Laurel Creek Road, as scheduled, on Sunday, January 5 through Saturday, February 29 to repair the Bote Mountain Tunnel. The seven-mile access road leading from the Townsend Wye to Cades Cove, is closed to all motorists, cyclists, and pedestrians.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: CEDARVILLE, Calif. - Crews from the Bureau of Land Management will be burning piles of juniper trees and limbs on public lands east of Cedarville during favorable weather conditions during January.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RODNEY COTE, 54, of Waterford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to nine months of imprisonment, followed by six months of home confinement and three years of supervised release, for distributing oxycodone.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy has announced up to $15 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development projects under the funding opportunity announcement (FOA) DE-FOA-0002186, Novel Concepts for the Utilization of Carbon Dioxide from Utility and Industrial Sources.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 7, 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 legislative hearing on Tuesday, Jan. 14, at 10:30 am in 2322 of the Rayburn House Office...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today sent a letter to Interior Secretary David Bernhardt reiterating the Committee’s long-standing demand for the Trump administration’s cost-benefit analysis and other documents related to the decision to move Bureau of Land Management (BLM) headquarters...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Matthew MacLeod, 34, of Rochester, was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison for possession of fentanyl with intent to distribute and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: Bangor, Maine: A Whitefield man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Bangor to being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chair Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Subcommittee on Aviation Chair Rick Larsen (D-WA) released the following statements after Boeing announced it would recommend simulator training for all Boeing 737 MAX pilots as Boeing works...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced today that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, Jan. 14, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “A Public Health Emergency: State Efforts to Curb the Opioid Crisis."
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A twice-deported Belizean national who currently is serving a nine-year sentence in a California prison for a domestic violence-related conviction was charged today with one felony count of illegal re-entry into the United States following his deportation.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 7, 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 legislative hearing on Tuesday, Jan. 14, at 10:30 am in 2322 of the Rayburn House Office...
