News from July 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Juan Padua, 32, and Michael Vasquez, 24, both of Buffalo, NY, were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with conspiring to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine. The charge carries a minimum penalty of five years in prison, and a maximum of 40 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Michael T. Blajszczak, 54, of Clarence, NY, who was convicted of possession of a firearm by a person subject to a domestic violence order of protection, was sentenced to serve 12 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.), Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-Ore.), House Education and Labor Committee Chairman Bobby Scott (D-Va.), Ranking Member Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), Senate Health Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-Wash.) today released the following statement on the White House’s call for Congress to pass legislation ending the practice of surprise medical billing...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO), Chair of the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Grace F. Napolitano (D-CA), and Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-AR) applauded House passage of the bipartisan Water Resources Development Act of 2020 (WRDA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A Fresno business owner was arraigned today for a scheme to defraud the customers of his classic car business, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By State Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
Release: Overview. At the start of World War II (WWII), the Jewish population in the United Kingdom (UK) was approximately 370,000-390,000 people. During WWII, with the exception of the Channel Islands, the UK successfully resisted invasion by Nazi Germany and, as a result, property owned by Jews in the UK was ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced today federal charges against eight defendants associated with a drug trafficking organization operating in Southeastern Wisconsin and Chicago. The co-conspirators are members and associates of the Black Disciples Street Gang.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Hudson County, New Jersey, man previously convicted of multiple felonies admitted today to possessing a firearm and ammunition, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Republican members continued their efforts to create innovative policies and promote clean energy by introducing two bills to strengthen domestic nuclear fuel supply and accelerate nuclear reactor licensing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: Scott Lynn Garland possessed 1,917 still images and 843 video files of very young children.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C., July 29, 2020) - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced today that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Farmers to Families Food Box Program has distributed over 50 million food boxes in support of American farmers and families affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
By State Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
Release: Overview. Hungary joined the Axis in November 1940. The Hungarian government under Miklos Horthy obligated Jewish males to serve in labor battalions, which led to the deaths of at least 27,000 Jews in the early 1940s before the Nazis occupied the country in March 1944. In the summer of 1941, Hungarian ...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.), Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-Ore.), House Education and Labor Committee Chairman Bobby Scott (D-Va.), Ranking Member Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), Senate Health Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-Wash.) today released the following statement on the White House’s call for Congress to pass legislation ending the practice of surprise medical billing...
By State Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
Release: Overview. The Jewish population of Montenegro prior to World War II (WWII) numbered approximately 30 people, according to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). The numbers rose during the war when Jews took refuge in Montenegro from the Nazi-controlled regions of Serbia and Croatia in the former ...
By State Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
Release: Overview. Nazi Germany invaded France on May 10, 1940, and on June 22, 1940, Nazi Germany and France entered into an Armistice Agreement. Germany annexed Alsace and Lorraine, while 80 percent of the country, including Northern France and the entire Atlantic Coast, came under German military occupation.
By State Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
Release: Overview. During the Holocaust, the Nazis and their collaborators killed or deported to their deaths most of the Jewish population of Slovenia. Of the approximately 1,400 Jews who lived in Slovenia in 1940, roughly 1,300 were killed during World War II (WWII). After the war, the Federal People’s Republic ...
By State Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
Release: Overview. Brazil admitted 96,000 Jewish immigrants between 1918 and 1933 but only 12,000 between 1933 and 1941 as a result of more stringent policies under the populist rule of Getulio Vargas. According to Brazil’s Virtual Archives on Holocaust and anti-Semitism Institute, the Brazilian government had ...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered remarks at Health Subcommittee legislative hearing entitled, “Improving Access to Care: Legislation to Reauthorize Key Public Health Programs."
By EPA Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), House Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA), Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions (HELP) Chairman Lamar Alexander...
By State Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
Release: Overview. The Holocaust in Czechoslovakia took different courses in the three distinct parts of the country. In the area of the current Czech Republic, Nazi Germany imposed its direct rule after the Munich Agreement of September 1938 and the annexation of Bohemia and Moravia in March 1939. (Slovakia ...
