News from July 2020
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: House Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), House Oversight and Reform Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA), and Senate Finance Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) released the following joint statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on July 16, 2020, Brian Whitton (age: 42) of Waukesha, Wisconsin, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison. Whitton was found guilty following a jury trial last February of arson of a commercial building, two counts...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Inocente Rivera, 20, of Ascensión, Chihuahua, Mexico, pleaded guilty in federal court in Las Cruces, New Mexico, on July 14 to an information charging him with one count of conspiracy to distribute 100 kilograms or more of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of marijuana, and one count of possession with intent to distribute 100 kilograms and more of marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: Kentucky Man Sentenced for Role in Concealing Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars in Corporate Contributions to U.S. Senate Campaign.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Clearfield County woman waived indictment and pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of aiding and assisting in the preparation or filing of a false income tax return, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) successfully apprehended an individual wanted by the Government of the Czech Republic for the offence of fraud, July 15.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Earl Stone Jr., a/k/a Ooh Wop, 28, of Jamestown, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: A Kentucky man was sentenced today to 21 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release for his role in orchestrating a multi-year scheme to funnel more than $200,000 in secret, unlawful corporate contributions into a campaign for United States Senate and for causing the concealment of those contributions from the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Science, Space, and Technology Chairwoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) sent a letter to Vice President Mike Pence today demanding that the White House direct all federal agencies to develop contingency plans for responding to natural disasters such as storms, floods, fires and extreme heat this year in light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: Spokane - William D. Hyslop, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Charles Jay Eglet, age 31, of Spokane, Washington, was sentenced today after having pleaded guilty on Feb. 12, 2020, to Production of Child Pornography and Online Enticement of A Minor To Engage...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Science, Space, and Technology Chairwoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) sent a letter to Vice President Mike Pence today demanding that the White House direct all federal agencies to develop contingency plans for responding to natural disasters such as storms, floods, fires and extreme heat this year in light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on July 16, 2020, Brian Whitton (age: 42) of Waukesha, Wisconsin, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison. Whitton was found guilty following a jury trial last February of arson of a commercial building, two counts ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding an $800,000 grant to the Coastal Bend Council of Governments, Corpus Christi, Texas, to support the development of a Geographic Information System (GIS) database for Aransas, Bee, Refugio, and San Patricio counties that will aid in the study of economic risk and resilience in those areas. This EDA grant will be matched with $204,790 in local investment.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement after the European Court of Justice decision on the Schrems II case to strike down the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: A notorious Amarillo crack cocaine dealer was sentenced today to 188 months in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement after the European Court of Justice decision on the Schrems II case to strike down the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Frank Nereo Fogazzi, 79, of Ontario, Canada, who was convicted of possessing with intent to distribute marijuana, was sentenced to time served by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: National Park Service (NPS) firefighters and investigators are asking for the public's help to identify those responsible for igniting a wildfire in Ahwahnee Meadow on the night of July 15, 2020 in Yosemite National Park. The fire was extinguished and is believed to be human-caused.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Anthony Lopes, age 29, of Syracuse, was named as a defendant yesterday in a federal indictment charging him with possessing unregistered silencers, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, John B. DeVito, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and Chief Kenton Buckner, City of Syracuse Police Department.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) released the following statement on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruling rejecting the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) attempt to rescind the 2016 Methane Waste Prevention Rule.
