News from January 2020
By USDA Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: ARROWSIC, Maine, Jan. 30, 2020 - Today, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development Deputy Under Secretary Donald “DJ" LaVoy visited the Arrowsic Volunteer Fire Station to announce a $9.87 million investment in four infrastructure projects that will create or improve rural e-Connectivity for 4,527 households and 215 businesses in rural Maine. This is one of many funding announcements in the first round of USDA’s ReConnect Pilot Program investments.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement on the signing of the United States and China Phase One trade agreement...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 30, 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 Thursday, February 6, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - Marc Hannon-White, a former Atlanta Regional Commission employee, pleaded guilty to accepting bribes in exchange for promising to steer federally subsidized students to particular training providers.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Members continue to closely monitor the international coronavirus outbreak. Today, Members received a briefing on the virus and the U.S. and international response from Dr. Robert Redfield, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: Roanoke, VIRGINIA - The former owner of the Virginia Vein Institute, who illegally distributed controlled substances, conspired to commit health care fraud, committed health care fraud, and then obstructed justice to hinder the investigation, was convicted yesterday at the conclusion of a seven-day jury...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that TERRENCE ROLLINS, age 40, of New Orleans, pleaded guilty on Jan. 28, 2020 to a Superseding Indictment charging him with possession with intent to distribute heroin, cocaine base, and cocaine hydrochloride, and possession of the aforementioned drugs in furtherance of drug trafficking crimes. United States District Court Judge Greg G. Guidry will sentence ROLLINS on May 5, 2020.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Members continue to closely monitor the international coronavirus outbreak. Today, Members received a briefing on the virus and the U.S. and international response from Dr. Robert Redfield, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - On Dec. 19, 2019, United States Attorney William M. McSwain addressed the Board Meeting of the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce. He discussed the priorities that he has set for the U.S. Attorney’s Office during his tenure, including those with a direct impact on the Philadelphia business...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Jonathan D. Larsen, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Division (“IRS-CI"), announced federal tax charges against WILLIAM R. GROGG for knowingly...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today condemning the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) defense of PennEast’s efforts to overturn the 3rd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals decision and seize state-owned land...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that two previously deported aliens were indicted separately on Jan. 29, 2020, by a federal grand jury for illegal reentry into the United States. These matters arose in counties throughout the District including Adams and York Counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Mahin Mojtahedzadeh, age 74, and a citizen of Iran, was sentenced today to time served (443 days in jail) for conspiring to unlawfully export gas turbine parts from the United States to Iran.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Albert Veliu was sentenced by United States District Judge Kiyo A. Matsumoto to nine years’ imprisonment for his role in a money laundering scheme that resulted in the defendant’s purchase and sale of an anti-tank rocket launcher and AK-47s rifles in Kosovo. Veliu pleaded guilty in February 2019.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 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 Thursday, February 6, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge William F. Jung today sentenced Derraka Reed to three years and six months in federal prison for theft of government funds and access device fraud in connection with filing fraudulent tax returns. The court also ordered Reed to pay $128,740 in restitution to the IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LUIS PITT, also known as “Macho," 24, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to 144 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for a kidnapping and violent assault he committed with four other members of the Almighty Latin Kings Nation (“Latin Kings").
By EPA Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Members continue to closely monitor the international coronavirus outbreak. Today, Members received a briefing on the virus and the U.S. and international response from Dr. Robert Redfield, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS-A Laurel man was sentenced today to 10 years in prison and five years of supervised release for conviction on drug trafficking crimes after law enforcement officers found methamphetamine in a motel room he had occupied, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Democrats have an opportunity to return to efforts to reform Medicare Part D to lower drug costs for seniors, say Ways and Means Committee Republican Leader Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR). Productive discussions were abandoned by the Majority to pursue Speaker Pelosi’s partisan plan for fewer cures last year.
