News from June 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: MEMPHIS, TN- Elden Collins, 25, KolonjiWarren, 24, and Kristopher Harris, 23, have been indicted for the federal offenses of carjacking and using a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the indictment today.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior and Environment Chairwoman Betty McCollum (D-MN) released the following statement today in response to the Environmental Protection Agency’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Julian Rivera, 30, of Buffalo, New York, who was convicted of possessing with intent to distribute heroin, butyryl fentanyl, and U-47700, was sentenced to serve 38 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: When a disaster strikes, there’s never time to waste. With so much at stake, responders from the private sector, state governments, and federal support must be prepared to spring into their lanes of action to face the challenges each is best equipped to address.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered remarks at a Subcommittee on Health hearing titled, “High Anxiety and Stress: Legislation to Improve Mental Health During Crisis."
By EPA Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Heath Subcommittee hearing on “High Anxiety and Stress: Legislation to Improve Mental Health During Crisis:"
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr.‘s (D-NJ) remarks as prepared for delivery on the House Floor today in support of H.R. 2, the Moving Forward Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: Conway, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr. announced today that a joint team of more than 200 federal, state, and local law enforcement officers arrested 23 individuals who have all been charged in federal court for their roles in a drug trafficking organization that operated out of the Cedar Branch area of Horry County, South Carolina. Three additional defendants remain at large.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Theodore Martin, age 57, formerly of York County, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 13 months’ imprisonment to be followed by two years of supervised release by Chief United States District Court...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 32-year-old Laredo resident has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction for conspiring with intent to distribute more than 100 kilograms of marijuana, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $400,000 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Central New York Regional Planning and Development Board, Syracuse, New York, to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: TULSA, Okla- U.S. Attorney Shores has released the following statement.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - The long metal arm and strong steel teeth of a massive construction excavator recently cleared its first bucket full of hardened clay containing countless bits and pieces of coal, the first step towards removing contaminated soil from 12 acres at the Savannah River Site (SRS) known as the D-Area Coal Storage Yard.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: A 55-year-old man from Knoxville, Tennessee, sexually enticed a female minor while she was online. Evidence revealed at trial showed the man communicated with the minor, on numerous occasions, using a social media site, sending explicit sexual messages and requesting a meeting. A family member of the...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: Washington D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered the following floor statement on H.R. 2, the INVEST in America Act.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, at the direction of President Trump, the U.S. Department of Energy released a report titled, “The Appalachian Energy and Petrochemical Renaissance: An Assessment of Economic Progress and Opportunities.” The report is in response to the President’s directive in Executive Order ...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - In light of President Trump's recent dismissals and demotions of several Inspectors General, today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del,), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, announced that he is unable to support the nomination of Katherine A. Crytzer of ...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today chaired a hearing to examine the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the U.S. territories - American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
By State Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today convened a second full committee hearing on COVID-19 and U.S. international pandemic preparedness, prevention, and response, with witness testimony from the Honorable Mark Dybul, M.D., co-director ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has upheld the convictions of Dr. David M. Pon on 20 counts of healthcare fraud. The Eleventh Circuit also rejected Pon’s challenges to his 121-month sentence.
