News from March 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the filling of a criminal complaint charging Jack Bradley Rice (35, Pinellas Park) with possessing with the intent to distribute a substance containing a detectable amount of fentanyl, cocaine, and methamphetamine and for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. If convicted, Rice faces a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2020
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez today announced that, in response to the increased threat of fraud presented by the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic, federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies have joined together to form the Middle District of Florida COVID-19 Fraud Task Force. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Monroeville, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on a charge of bank robbery, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 30, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation released today a draft repayment contract for public review for extraordinary maintenance on the C.W. “Bill" Jones Pumping Plant. The draft repayment contract is between the San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority and Reclamation.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 30, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Harley Rouda, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Environment for the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued the following statements after a new report from the Department of Homeland...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2020
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced a new effort to investigate and punish wrongdoing related to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The Department of Justice, in response to a March 23, 2020 Executive Order signed by the President, has created a task force charged with addressing hoarding and price gouging associated with COVID-19.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 30, 2020
News Release: Santa Fe, New Mexico - The health and safety of our visitors and staff remains the number one priority of the Bureau of Land Management. In accordance with guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the state of New Mexico public health officials, the BLM will temporarily close several of its developed recreation facilities to help limit the spread of COVID-19.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2020
News Release: GREAT FALLS- A Harlem man who admitted strangling his dating partner on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation was sentenced today to 23 months in prison and to two years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 30, 2020
Release: Washington, D.C., March 30, 2020 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is announcing the implementation of phase six of the Lacey Act enforcement schedule, which will go into effect on Oct. 1, 2020. First enacted in 1900, the Lacey Act combats trafficking ...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 30, 2020
News Release: Washington - As part of its efforts to enforce the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) and ensure fair trading practices within the U.S. produce industry, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on three produce businesses for failing to meet their contractual obligations...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 30, 2020
Release: Projects Will Range from Basic Research through Testing of Prototypes
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Corbin Kauffman, age 31, of Lehighton, Pennsylvania, was charged on March 27, 2020, by a criminal information with interstate transmission of threats to injure the person of another. Kauffman was originally charged by a criminal complaint on April 1, 2019.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 30, 2020
News Release: Dear Ambassador Lighthizer: The Administration and Congress worked together successfully to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement. Our good work resulted in passage of the United States - Mexico - Canada Agreement (USMCA) Implementation Act with broad bipartisan support. But the work is...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2020
News Release: With Health Care Fraud and Aggravated Identity Theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2020
News Release: Hayden Temin Named Assistant Director of the Human Resources Division.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Representative Greg Walden (R-OR) joined U.S. Senators John Barrasso (R-WY) and Tom Carper (D-DE) to send a letter to Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Chairman Kristine Svinicki asking the agency use its authority to temporarily defer the collection of fees and charges from NRC licensees.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - U.S. Attorney Scott W. Brady today announced that more than $52.8 million in Department of Justice grants is available to help communities address human trafficking. These funding opportunities are available for state and local government and law enforcement agencies, non-profit victim services...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Georgia man will appear in court today for his alleged role in a conspiracy to defraud federally funded and private health care benefit programs by submitting fraudulent testing claims for COVID-19 and genetic cancer screenings, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 30, 2020
News Release: WINNEMUCCA, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management Winnemucca District Office signed the Record of Decision approving the proposed expansion of the Coeur Rochester and Packard Mine. The Record of Decision approving the expansion was signed by BLM after compiling a thorough analysis of the environmental impacts associated with the proposal.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators John Barrasso (R-WY) and Tom Carper (D-DE), along with U.S. Representative Greg Walden (R-OR) sent a letter to Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Chairman Kristine Svinicki asking the agency to consider using its authority to temporarily defer the collection of fees and charges from NRC licensees.
