News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted Anthony Michael Mileo, age 54, of Huntingtown, Maryland, on the federal charge of transportation of child pornography. The indictment was returned on Jan. 22, 2020, and was unsealed at his initial appearance yesterday. Mileo is an officer with the Maryland National Capital Park Police Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A former Cameron, Missouri, high school teacher was sentenced in federal court today for secretly recording pornographic videos of three teenage victims in his bathroom.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 28, 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 Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Ways and Means Committee Republican Leader Kevin Brady (R-TX). Productive discussions were abandoned by the Majority to pursue Speaker Pelosi’s partisan plan for fewer cures last year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: “At midnight on February 6, the Drug Enforcement Administration’s temporary emergency prohibition of fentanyl analogues will expire, unless Congress acts to extend it. Fentanyl and its analogues are highly potent and extremely lethal. Fentanyl, which is 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - An Albany, Kentucky, pharmacist has pleaded guilty to three counts of illegal distribution of controlled substances, announced the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Kentucky.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized its replacement for the Clean Water Rule, which the agency repealed earlier this year.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at a joint Energy and Environment and Climate Change hearing titled, “Out of Control: The Impact of Wildfires on our Power Sector and the Environment."
By DOE Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected three additional projects to receive approximately $3 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development projects. These projects are supported through the funding opportunity announcement (FOA) DE-FOA-0001992, Maximizing the Coal Value Chain.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Bryan Connor Herrell, 25, pleaded guilty on Monday to conspiring to engage in a racketeer influenced corrupt organization, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 28, 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 Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Ways and Means Committee Republican Leader Kevin Brady (R-TX). Productive discussions were abandoned by the Majority to pursue Speaker Pelosi’s partisan plan for fewer cures last year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: A criminal complaint was unsealed yesterday in federal court in Brooklyn charging Tiffany Harris with committing three separate anti-Semitic attacks against Orthodox Jewish women while they were walking on public streets in Brooklyn, New York, during Hanukkah. Harris will make her initial appearance at a later date.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) had the following prepared remarks today at a joint Environment & Climate Change and Energy Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Out of Control: The Impact of Wildfires on our Power Sector and the Environment:"
By Interior Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: or Melanie Florez (520) 733-5151. ASTRONOMY NIGHT FOR LITTLE RANGERS. AT SAGUARO NATIONAL PARK (EAST). For Ages 8 to 12 Years Old. Tucson, AZ--- “Look, up in the sky!" will be the catchphrase for junior rangers attending “Astronomy Night" in Saguaro National Park’s Rincon Mountain District (East) on Thursday...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON- House Agriculture Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry Chair Abigail Spanberger of Virginia delivered the following statement at today's hearing to review implementation of conservation programs in the 2018 Farm Bill.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 124,355 metric tons of corn for delivery to Mexico during the 2019/2020 marketing year.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: Criminals sometimes damage their mobile phones in an attempt to destroy evidence. They might smash, shoot, submerge or cook their phones, but forensics experts can often retrieve the evidence anyway. Now, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have tested how well these forensic methods work.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM contractor Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) is sharing knowledge and experience with small business mentor-protégé programs throughout the DOE complex while steadily increasing opportunities for small businesses at the Savannah River Site (SRS).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - PHILLIP CREIGHTON MONTGOMERY, 27, of Moore, Oklahoma, has been sentenced to ten years in prison for possessing firearms illegally, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Michael Hughes, 31, of Philadelphia, PA, was convicted today at trial of two counts of robbery which interferes with interstate commerce, and two counts of using, carrying, brandishing, and discharging a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence arising from two armed robbery and shooting incidents in August 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: Spokane - William D. Hyslop, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Joseph W. Aarnes, age 38, of Spokane, Washington, was sentenced today after having pleaded guilty on July 16, 2019, to possession of a stolen firearm. United States District Judge Salvador Mendoza, Jr. sentenced Aarnes to a 92-month term of imprisonment, to be followed by a 3-year term of court supervision after he is released from federal prison.
