News from July 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Six defendants have been sentenced to a combined 81 years in prison for their respective roles in the sex trafficking of a minor victim and an adult victim at multiple locations in Northern Virginia and Maryland in 2018 and 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, woman convicted of Embezzlement and Theft From a Tribal Organization was sentenced on July 23, 2020, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered remarks at an Environment Subcommittee hearing entitled, “There’s Something in the Water: Reforming Our Nation’s Drinking Water Standards."
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: Dear Mr. Dodaro: We request that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) conduct a review of the federal government’s investment into the research and development of the antiviral medication remdesivir. Remdesivir has shown some promise as a treatment for COVID-19, although the safety and efficacy...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn announced that Jenifer Adriana Lopez-Ramirez, age 22, of Denver, Colorado, was sentenced to serve 228 months (19 years) in federal prison for six bank robberies and use of a firearm during and in relation to crimes of violence. Following her prison term...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at today’s Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing titled, “There’s Something in the Water: Reforming Our Nation’s Drinking Water Standards:"
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging four officers at the Alabama Department of Corrections with federal civil rights and obstruction of justice offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Pacira Pharmaceuticals Inc. will pay $3.5 million to resolve allegations that it paid kickbacks to doctors in the form of bogus research grants to induce them to prescribe its analgesic EXPAREL, Attorney for the United States Rachael A. Honig announced today. The allegations arose from a whistleblower suit filed under the False Claims Act.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: WEST GLACIER, Mont. [July 28, 2020] - Glacier National Park and Flathead Crimestoppers are asking the assistance of the public in providing information on multiple suspected arson fires started in the North Fork area of Glacier National Park last week. The North Fork Landowners Association is offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to the arrest of anyone responsible for the fires.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Cameron Andrew Garcia, 26, of Dallas, Texas, was arrested today on a two-count federal indictment charging him with extortion and cyberstalking, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: Employee Surveillance Testing. In partnership with the states of Montana and Wyoming and surrounding counties, over 1,000 COVID-19 tests have been conducted on Yellowstone employees over the past eight weeks. Another 455 tests were recently confirmed negative in the fifth (162 tests), sixth (244 tests)...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The former co-owner of a New Jersey marketing company today admitted her role in a scheme to defraud public and private health benefits programs of at least $8.8 million for the billing of medically unnecessary compounded prescriptions, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
News Release: Harrisburg - U.S. Attorney David J. Freed recognizes the 30th anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), which was signed into law by President George H.W. Bush on July 26, 1990. At the signing ceremony, President Bush stated the ADA “signals the end to the unjustified segregation and exclusion of persons with disabilities from the mainstream of American life.".
By DOE Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
News Release: U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today announced that her bipartisan American Mineral Security Act is included in new legislation to help the U.S. recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Murkowski’s bill, which focuses on rebuilding domestic supply chains, addresses systemic weaknesses exposed by the pandemic and is critical to the future of U.S. manufacturing and competitiveness.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Democratic staff released a new report exposing the longstanding misuse of antipsychotics and the minimal enforcement in preventing patient harm in nursing homes nationwide. “Under-Enforced and Over-Prescribed: The Antipsychotic Drug Epidemic Ravaging...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
News Release: DENVER - A criminal alien living in Colorado was convicted of illegal reentry of a previously deported alien following a felony conviction July 27.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - The former men’s soccer coach at the University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA), entered a guilty plea today in connection with his involvement in a scheme to use bribery and fraud to facilitate the admission of applicants to UCLA.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
News Release: Myth: The Trump Administration deployed federal troops to the streets of Portland.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
News Release: Bottom line: The dangerous and vicious situation Portland has witnessed for the past eight weeks continues with violent anarchists rioting on the streets as federal law enforcement officers work diligently and honorably to enforce federal law, defend federal property, and protect the lives of their fellow officers.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
News Release: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its committed workforce cross more than a dozen offices. For months, DHS has taken on the challenges presented by COVID-19 and continues to remain focused on security and safety for the American people. The Department and its components continue to prove its resiliency in the face of adversity to ensure a safe, secure, and prosperous Homeland for the American people.
