News from June 2020
By EPA Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report on the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS). The NDMS is made up of thousands of responders that support local response efforts to natural disasters, large events that could yield an emergency, or other emergency situations. NDMS is managed by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC -After more than 24 hours of debate that included the consideration of 177 amendments, the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure approved the Investing in a New Vision for the Environment and Surface Transportation in America (INVEST in America) Act. The INVEST in America...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX - Former Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen pleaded guilty today in Maricopa County Superior Court to running an adoption fraud scheme that involved bringing pregnant women from the Marshall Islands to the U.S. to give birth, fraudulently billing those medical expenses to Arizona taxpayers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Lexington man, Javantez L. Masters, 21, pleaded guilty on Thursday, before Chief U.S. District Judge Danny Reeves, to possession with intent to distribute marijuana, possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Chairman Roger Wicker (R-MS) today released principles for a legislative framework to expand broadband access and digital opportunity and close the digital...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: Sandy Springs, GA - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 3.4 million visitors to Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area in 2019 spent $152 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 2,160 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $213 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: SHAWN N. ANDERSON, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendant VINCENT RAYMOND RIOS (Rios), age 45, from Chalan Pago, Guam was sentenced in the United States District Court of Guam to 27 years imprisonment for Conspiracy to Distribute Fifty...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report on the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS). The NDMS is made up of thousands of responders that support local response efforts to natural disasters, large events that could yield an emergency, or other emergency situations. NDMS is managed by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Twentynine Palms man was sentenced today to 12 months and one day in federal prison for making harassing telephone calls to government offices and for threatening to injure congressional staffers and an intern who answered the calls.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A grand jury brought a five-count indictment today against a Granite Bay resident, charging him with conspiracy to transport marijuana and concentrated cannabis oil in his Learjet, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: The COVID-19 pandemic generated an economy-wide cash-flow crisis and recession. It has put a premium on Congress finding ways to rapidly infuse cash into businesses so they can keep their doors open and employees’ paychecks flowing. Broadly speaking, the entire bipartisan Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act represents the pursuit of this strategy.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation, in partnership with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, plans to begin construction of the Lower Clear Creek Floodplain and Stream Channel Restoration Project Phase 3C on the week of June 22. This project is funded through the Central Valley Project Improvement Act.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $65 million in nuclear energy research, cross-cutting technology development, facility access, and infrastructure awards for 93 advanced nuclear technology projects in 28 states. The awards fall under DOE’s nuclear energy programs called the Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP), the Nuclear Energy Enabling Technologies (NEET), and the Nuclear Science User Facilities (NSUF).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Adrianne Cellicion, 44, of Zuni, New Mexico was sentenced in federal court in Santa Fe on June 16 to 85 months in prison for kidnapping and carjacking in Indian Country. Cellicion is an enrolled member of Zuni Pueblo.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) defied a court order, withdrew its 2011 regulatory determination and made a final decision not ...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: Please return completed forms to WICL_Visitor_Center@nps.gov or to President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site in Hope at 117 South Hervey St.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: ROME, Ga. - Daniel Strickland has pleaded guilty to producing child pornography of two minors in his care. A federal grand jury had indicted Strickland in November 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: Two of the defendants face life imprisonment, or the death penalty, for murder.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski, and Congressman Don Young (all R-Alaska) yesterday sent a letter to Chairman Jerome Powell and Vice Chair Randy Quarles of the Federal Reserve, Acting U.S. Comptroller of Currency Brian Brooks, and Chairwoman Jelena McWilliams of the Federal Deposit Insurance ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Miami, Florida man was sentenced to 235 months in prison for Conspiracy to Distribute five (5) kilograms or more of Cocaine and Possession with the Intent to Distribute of five (5) kilograms or more of Cocaine.
