News from July 2020
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON - Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Chair of the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Appropriations Committee's markup of the fiscal year 2021 Military Construction-Veterans Affairs bill.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) released the following statement on today’s Supreme Court ruling in McGirt v. Oklahoma, which holds that much of the Eastern portion of Oklahoma is still a part of “Indian country" because Congress never changed the terms of longstanding treaties to that effect.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, led nine Democrats on the HELP Committee in urging Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to rescind all the rules, guidance and policies she has issued during her...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: NOAA and its research partners are forecasting that western Lake Erie will experience a moderate harmful algal bloom this summer. This year’s bloom is expected to measure 4.5 on the severity index - among the smaller blooms since 2011 - but could possibly range between 4 and 5.5, compared to 7.3 last year. An index above 5 indicates the more severe blooms.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: Great Smoky Mountains National Park maintenance crews will implement a temporary, single-lane closure along King Branch Road on Tuesday, July 14 from 7:30 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. to make pavement repairs. King Branch Road is located off the northbound Spur near Pigeon Forge, TN. The road will remain open during the single-lane closure, but motorists should anticipate delays.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: Facebook Live Panel on July 10.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: SOUTH BEND - Isaiah Whitmore, age 27, of South Bend, Indiana, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge Jon E. DeGuilio upon his plea of guilty to conspiracy to distribute heroin, announced United States Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: ATHENS, Ga. - A defendant charged in an ongoing, large-scale drug trafficking investigation dubbed “Operation Wu Block," has pleaded guilty for her crime, said Charlie Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: "As Oklahoma’s United States Attorneys, we are confident tribal, state, local, and federal law enforcement will work together to continue providing exceptional public safety under this new ruling by the United States Supreme Court.".
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Romanian man arrested in Germany admitted today to conspiring to engage in wire fraud and offering and selling unregistered securities in connection with his role in the BitClub Network, a cryptocurrency mining scheme worth at least $722 million, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: * Campfires are only allowed within designated fire grates in developed campgrounds (i.e. metal, in- ground containment structure). Fire pans and rock campfire rings are not acceptable. Beach fires are prohibited.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: “As Oklahoma’s United States Attorneys, we are confident tribal, state, local, and federal law enforcement will work together to continue providing exceptional public safety under this new ruling by the United States Supreme Court.".
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that CARLOS DAVID IRIAS, age 47, a resident of Cutler Bay, Florida, pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Greg G. Guidry to a one-count bill of information charging him with intentionally accessing a protected computer without...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: Sentences. Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson sentenced WAYNE EMERSON NIXON, 42, of Pinedale, Wyoming on July 7, 2020 for distribution of child pornography. Nixon was arrested in Pinedale, Wyoming. He received sixty months of imprisonment, to be followed by eighty-four months of supervised...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - A federal grand jury in Tallahassee returned an indictment on July 7, 2020, charging Phillip Golightly, 38, of Quincy, Florida, with two counts of Sexual Abuse of a Ward. Golightly, a U.S. Bureau of Prisons Correctional Officer at Federal Correctional Institution Marianna, is charged...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, the Committee on Oversight and Reform held a briefing with domestic and sexual violence service providers and advocates on their work responding to the intimate partner violence crisis during the coronavirus pandemic. The Committee was briefed on the need for robust funding, flexibility, and long-term investment in combatting intimate partner violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Richard Gaines, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has admitted to opioid distribution, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA - Today Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after the Supreme Court handed down its decisions related to the President’s financial records...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia traveled to Jacksonville, Florida to discuss the continued re-opening of the economy and to highlight the importance of workplace safety during the re-opening. Secretary Scalia participated in a roundtable discussion with local business and civic leaders, and visited Crowley Maritime, where he met with company executives and employees.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Whitesville man was sentenced to federal prison for his second child pornography offense and possessing a firearm despite being a convicted felon, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Daniel Runion was sentenced to 12 and a half years in prison for possession of child pornography...
