News from July 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, President Donald J. Trump and Attorney General William P. Barr announced significant cases related to Joint Task Force Vulcan (JTFV), an initiative launched in August 2019 aimed at disrupting, dismantling, and ultimately, destroying MS-13.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Two Project Guardian defendants were sentenced this week in federal court, according to United States Attorney Mike Stuart.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: Defendant paid $9,000 to have online college classes taken on behalf of her son.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr.‘s (D-NJ) opening remarks as prepared for delivery today at a Full Committee markup of 30 bills...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: Luray, Virginia: Shenandoah National Park campgrounds are now open at full capacity and additional sites have been made available for reservation at Mathews Arm, Big Meadows, Loft Mountain and Dundo campgrounds. Reservations can be made online at Recreation.gov or by phone at (877) 444-6777. A limited number of campsites are available on a first come-first served basis.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Nicholas Bufanio, 53, of Hellertown, PA pleaded guilty to one count of health care fraud before United States District Court Judge Joseph F. Leeson, Jr.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Energy Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Upton (R-MI), Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL), and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH) released a statement following the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ)’s announcement of the final rule updating the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: DE SOTO, GA - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Triple S Communications Inc. for violations of OSHA's trenching and excavation standards after an employee was fatally injured in a trench collapse at a De Soto, Georgia, worksite. The Moultrie, Georgia, telecommunications installation contractor faces $58,025 in penalties.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANTHONY AMATO, 31, of Milford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 21 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing fentanyl and heroin.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the Committee voted to favorably report 17 bills to the full House of Representatives that will improve quality and access to health care...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement after five energy bills were favorably reported to the full House of Representatives today...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Winchester man was indicted yesterday in connection with allegedly filing fraudulent loan applications seeking more than $13 million in forgivable loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) for COVID-19 relief through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr.‘s (D-NJ) opening remarks as prepared for delivery today at a Full Committee markup of 30 bills...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: WILFRED J. ALBANESE, 49, formerly of Waterbury, Connecticut and Blue Springs, Missouri, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to fraud and identity theft offenses stemming from the sale of numerous used vehicles with altered odometers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: Defendant is the first MS-13 leader to face terrorism charges in the U.S.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: HONOLULU, Hawaii - A superseding indictment was unsealed today in U.S. District Court charging Michael J. Miske, Jr., and 10 other defendants with racketeering conspiracy and other offenses. The superseding indictment includes charges against Miske for his role in the kidnapping and murder of 21-year-old Johnathan Fraser in July 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: Owner of Information Technology Services Company Fraudulently Sought More than $13 million in Small Business Administration Paycheck Protection Program Loans.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH), Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) released the following statement on the United Kingdom’s decision to ban Chinese telecommunications provider Huawei from its networks.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Jeffrey Lyons, 59, of Lancaster, PA was sentenced to fourteen years in prison, and ordered to pay restitution of $53 million to Fulton Bank and $550,000 to the IRS, by Judge Jeffrey L. Schmehl for orchestrating a massive bank fraud scheme over many years.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: Opening remarks, as prepared, of Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) and Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-AR) from today’s Full Committee markup of H.R. 7575, the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2020, of which Graves and Westerman are both cosponsors...
