News from July 2020
By DOL Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Yesterday, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) and Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), re-introduced the Second Look at Drug Patents Act, legislation to improve the process for challenging sham drug patents which can block cheaper generic drugs from being available to patients and families.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Oleksandra Johnson (619) 546-9769.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Anthony Allee, 29, of Medina, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge John J. Sinatra, Jr. to possessing with intent to distribute, and distributing, cocaine, and unlawful possession of a short-barreled shotgun in furtherance...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: The race to protect sensitive electronic information against the threat of quantum computers has entered the home stretch.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: Defendants Plead Guilty to Laundering More Than $250 Million of Proceeds From Ponzi Schemes and Other Criminal Enterprises.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: According to a recent Gallup poll, nine out of ten Americans are concerned about prescription drug prices. Specifically, they are concerned that the pharmaceutical industry will take advantage of the current pandemic to hike drug prices.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - Two residents of Erie, Pennsylvania have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on charges of violating federal drug laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Washington, D.C. man pleaded guilty today to his role in an armed robbery and carjacking that led to a high-speed police chase and resulted in injuries to two police officers.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: (MILES CITY, Mont.) - The Bureau of Land Management Miles City Field Office has placed activities on BLM-administered lands in Powder River County under Stage 1 Fire Restrictions.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) reminds claimants who wish to retain their existing mining claims on federal public lands through the 2021 assessment year to pay a maintenance fee or file a Maintenance Fee Waiver Certification (Small Miner’s Waiver) on or before Sept. 1, 2020, to prevent the mining claim from being declared forfeit and void.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $3.3 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Rural Nevada Development Corporation, Ely, Nevada, to capitalize and administer a Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) that will provide critical gap financing to small businesses and entrepreneurs in rural Nevada adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: York, PA - Today, United States Marshal Martin J. Pane announced the arrest of Collin Mailman, a 22-year old York man.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH - The wife of a U.S. Army soldier was sentenced today to three years in prison, to be followed by one year of supervised release, for obstruction of justice, the maximum statutory sentence allowed under the law for obstruction of justice, Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian Rabbitt of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. of the Eastern District of North Carolina announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Robert Payne, age 39, of Ithaca, New York, was sentenced today to serve five years (60 months) in prison for his conviction for participating in a cocaine trafficking conspiracy, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, Ray Donovan, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-A Carlisle man was sentenced today on one count of distribution of child pornography. United States District Court Judge James M. Moody Jr. sentenced Stuart Adams, 34, to 15 years in federal prison. Cody Hiland, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Diane Upchurch, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Little Rock Field Office, announced today’s sentencing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man was indicted today on a federal robbery charge, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: The team of federal employees supporting the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs is small but mighty. In this “Meet Our Team" blog post series, we introduce key staff dedicated to the Office and its mission to support tribes in pursuing their energy visions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Passaic County, New Jersey, man today admitted conspiring to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin, and to distributing a quantity of heroin, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Bernhardt Furniture Company, located in Lenoir, North Carolina, has agreed to pay $172,000 in civil penalties to settle allegations involving violations of the Procurement Integrity Act relating to the company’s receipt of competitor bid information and providing of gratuities to State Department employees in connection with a State Department contract.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today released the following joint statement regarding the United Kingdom’s digital services tax law’s taking effect.
