News from July 2020
By EPA Newswire | Jul 21, 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 fully remote hearing on Tuesday, July 28, at 11 a.m. (EDT) on the urgent need to reform the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA). The hearing is entitled, “There’s Something in the Water: Reforming Our Nation’s Drinking Water Standards."
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing titled, “Pathway to a Vaccine: Efforts to Develop a Safe, Effective and Accessible COVID-19 Vaccine:"
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement about the continued cyber vulnerabilities of our election systems, and the need for more election security funding for state and local election officials to protect the 2020 election...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on July 20, 2020, Cort W. Davis II (age: 32) of Rochester, New York, was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison by Senior District Judge William C. Griesbach.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Ira Flowers, 37, of Claremont, New Hampshire was sentenced today to 41 months of imprisonment for possessing a 9mm semi-automatic pistol after having been convicted of multiple felonies. Chief U.S. District Judge Geoffrey Crawford also sentenced Flowers to a 2-year term of supervised release to follow his imprisonment.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
Release: On July 21, 2020, the Department of Energy (DOE) opened registration for the 2020 CyberForce Competition™, the sixth iteration of the Department’s collegiate-level cyber defense competition designed to inspire and develop the next generation of energy sector cybersecurity professionals.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Ohio Speaker of the House was arrested this morning and charged in a federal racketeering conspiracy involving approximately $60 million paid to a 501(c)(4) entity to pass and uphold a billion-dollar nuclear plant bailout.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $400,000 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Montachusett Regional Planning Commission, Leominster, Massachusetts, to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Vienna man pleaded guilty today to charges related to his role in a conspiracy that conducted multiple swatting events targeting journalists, a Virginia university, a historic Virginia church, and a former cabinet official.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Pedro Morales-Carrillo, 32, a native and citizen of Mexico who has twice been convicted of drug trafficking in Nevada, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kent J. Dawson to seven years and three months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for illegal reentry into the United States, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Thursday, July 23, 2020 at 1:00PM CDT, U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette and Under Secretary for Science Paul Dabbar will join local officials, academic, and science leaders at the University of Chicago to announce a new national initiative that will accelerate research in quantum science and technology.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on charges of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA: A Hephzibah man arrested at an Augusta motel when a 14-year-old boy signaled that he was in danger has been sentenced to federal prison for production of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: MACON - The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit confirmed Monday that a Macon businessman convicted and sent to prison for his role in a complex scheme to defraud the Bibb County School District (BCSD) of millions of dollars will pay back taxpayers and serve his full prison sentence, announced Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing titled, “Pathway to a Vaccine: Efforts to Develop a Safe, Effective and Accessible COVID-19 Vaccine:"
By Interior Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: TWIN FALLS, Idaho -The BLM Jarbidge Field Office will begin a wild horse gather operation in the Saylor Creek Wild Horse Herd Management Area (HMA), 15 miles south of Glenns Ferry. The BLM will conduct gather operations for up to four months, using temporary water and bait traps consisting of a series of corral panels stocked with water and hay/mineral. No helicopters will be used in the gather.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Jamie Raskin, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, issued the following statements after the Trump Administration released a legal memorandum attempting to ban undocumented immigrants from being counted in the 2020 Census...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Jose Gonzalez-Reyes, age 53, a citizen of the Dominican Republic, was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for illegally re-entering the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - An undercover federal law enforcement investigation has identified a variety of cyber-enabled fraud conspiracies allegedly carried out by two Nigerian nationals and a U.S. citizen residing in the Chicago suburbs.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: VALE, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Vale District Office announced today additional fire restrictions will take effect Friday, July 24.
