News from June 2020
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Following the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee's hearing to examine challenges facing the U.S. recycling industry, today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper, top Democrat on the EPW Committee, and Senator John Boozman (R-Ark.), member of the committee - both co-chairs of the ...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Health Subcommittee hearing on “Health Care Inequality: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 and the Health Care System:"
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: COLUMBIA, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr. announced today that the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of South Carolina honors the memory and legacy of the nine innocent lives lost five years ago on June 17, 2015, during the massacre at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Tommie Thomas, 37, of Bakersfield, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd on Tuesday to 20 years and six months in prison for distribution of methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: Hot Springs, Arkansas - David Clay Fowlkes, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced today that Dylan Lee Hooks, age 24, of Hot Springs, Arkansas, was sentenced June 15, 2020 to a total of 77 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release on...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Health Subcommittee hearing on “Health Care Inequality: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 and the Health Care System:"
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: ERIE, Pa. -A resident of Edinboro, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on charges of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: A new online tool designed to help the public report civil rights violations.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: ICYMI- AP: Idaho Offers $1,500 Bonus for People to Return to Work.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - David Clay Fowlkes, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Jeremy Michael Pumphrey, age 41, of Holiday Island, Arkansas, was sentenced today to 120 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release on one count of...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C., June 17, 2020) - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will extend the contracts of select vendors from the first round of the Farmers to Families Food Box Program.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) announced today that the Communications and Technology and Consumer...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: A new online tool designed to help the public report civil rights violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A Guatemalan man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to charges related to a Colombia-to-America cocaine conspiracy.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered remarks at a Health Subcommittee hearing titled, “Health Care Inequality: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 and the Health Care System."
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Florida man made his initial court appearance today in connection with charges that he evaded over $61 million in income taxes from 2016 through 2018, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: In Waco, a federal judge sentenced 43-year-old James Stevens to 200 months in federal prison for possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Shane Folden, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Peter Fratus, 39, of West Dennis, Massachusetts, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with sending threatening emails to Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 875, which prohibits transmitting threatening communications in interstate commerce.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: OAKLAND - At a press conference held this morning at the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and United States Courthouse in Oakland, the Department of Justice announced that murder and attempted murder charges have been filed against Steven Carrillo, the alleged gunman in the May 29, 2020, drive-by shooting...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that a woman received a sentence related to her involvement in a July 2019 fatal drug overdose on the Menominee Indian Reservation. Elmira J. Corn (Age: 29), formerly of Neopit, which is on the Menominee Indian Reservation...
