News from June 2020
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 29, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) today sent a letter to the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) requesting the OIG initiate an investigation...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 29, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks on the House Floor today in support of H.R. 1425, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Enhancement Act...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 29, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks on the House Floor today in support of H.R. 1425, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Enhancement Act...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 29, 2020
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) announced today that it does not expect to purchase and sell sugar under the Feedstock Flexibility Program for crop year 2019, which runs from Oct. 1, 2019, to Sept. 30, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Kyle Desroche, 36, of Brentwood, pleaded guilty in federal court on Friday to distributing child pornography, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 29, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) today sent a letter to the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) requesting the OIG initiate an investigation...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 29, 2020
News Release: Fort Payne, Ala. - After being closed for over 12 weeks, Canyon Mouth Park is set to re-open. Canyon Mouth Park is a popular picnicking, swimming, and kayaking location at the southern end of the park, where the Little River exits Little River Canyon and goes from whitewater rapids to a calm, serene river before exiting the park.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 29, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Glendale man pleaded guilty today to federal criminal charges that he led a series of scams, including “bust-out" schemes where he and others fraudulently charged millions of dollars to credit cards sometimes opened with “synthetic identities" and later used them to buy luxury cars and cemetery plots that he sold for profit.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA -Oneil Wayne South, of Fairmont, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 24 months incarceration for firearms charges, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 29, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision in June Medical Services L. L. C. v. Russo that strikes down a Louisiana law severely limiting access to abortion...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 29, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation announced today ongoing congressionally mandated contract conversions pursuant to the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act (WIIN Act). Today’s release includes a draft repayment contract from the Central Valley Project Westside Water District for a 60-day public comment period. This is one of over 86 repayment contract conversions requested by federal Central Valley Project contractors.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 29, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement in response to a new proposal from the Department of Labor (DOL) which represents a severely watered down version of the Obama-era fiduciary standard, and would leave retirement savers and investors vulnerable to receiving conflicted financial advice.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2020
News Release: MIAMI - Today, a federal judge in South Florida sentenced an inmate to three years in federal prison for mailing threatening communications to a Miami federal courthouse. Freddy Velazquez, 47, mailed the threats from a state prison in Monticello, Florida, where he was serving a sentence on a prior conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, N.Y. -Daitwaun Fair, 33, of Syracuse, New York, was sentenced today to serve 102 months (eight and one-half years) in prison in connection with his convictions for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base (“crack cocaine"), possession with intent...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 29, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued the following statement regarding the Supreme Court’s ruling in June Medical Services v. Russo...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2020
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. On June 26, the United States successfully completed the extradition process of Luca Sartini, 60, from Italy, with the United States Marshals Service effectuating the transportation of Sartini from Rome to Knoxville. Sartini is a co-defendant of Sylvia Hofstetter. Hofstetter and three...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 29, 2020
News Release: HONOLULU - A former little league coach was charged by federal complaint today with producing and possessing child pornography, the result of a probe by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Honolulu.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 29, 2020
News Release: Washington D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered the following floor statement on H.R. 1425, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Enhancement Act.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 29, 2020
News Release: Washington D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered the following floor statement on H.R. 1425, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Enhancement Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DIAVION HUTCHINGS, also known as “Avi," 19, of New Haven, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall to obstruction of justice.
