News from March 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Help us combat the proliferation of sexual exploitation crimes against children.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Bernita Willette Carswell (36, Jacksonville) pleaded guilty to disaster assistance fraud involving FEMA benefits. She faces up to 30 years in federal prison and payment of restitution to the United States in the amount of $15,024.80. Carswell was arrested on Jan. 15, 2020.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Health Subcommittee markup of 13 bills...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: House Democrats today introduced the Families First Coronavirus Response Act to bolster the federal government’s response to the coronavirus outbreak and address the severe impacts of the coronavirus on Americans’ personal safety and financial security.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement in response to the findings and recommendations of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Nicaragua has a highly centralized, authoritarian political system dominated by President Daniel Ortega Saavedra and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo Zambrana. Ortega’s Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) party exercises total control over the executive, legislative, judicial, and electoral...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at a Health Subcommittee markup examining 13 health bills, including bipartisan proposals to promote health and increase the safety of medical products.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: NEW YORK CITY - The Justice Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration today announced the results of Project Python, a DEA-led multilateral interagency operation encompassing all global investigations and related disruption activities targeting the Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A former inmate of the Chesapeake City Jail pleaded guilty today to conspiring to bribe a Chesapeake Sheriff’s Deputy to smuggle contraband - including cocaine and heroin - into the Chesapeake City Jail.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: The Kingdom of Spain is a parliamentary democracy headed by a constitutional monarch. The country has a bicameral parliament, the General Courts or National Assembly, consisting of the Congress of Deputies (lower house) and the Senate (upper house). The head of the largest political party or coalition ...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: The Republic of Austria is a parliamentary democracy with constitutional power shared between a popularly elected president and a bicameral parliament (federal assembly). The multiparty parliament and the coalition government it elects exercise most day-to-day governmental powers. Parliamentary elections in September 2019 and presidential elections in 2016 were considered free and fair.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: The Principality of Andorra is a constitutional, parliamentary democracy. Two co-princes-the president of France and the Spanish bishop of Urgell-serve with joint authority as heads of state. On April 7, the country held free and fair multiparty elections for the 28 seats in parliament (the General Council...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: Congressman Tim Ryan (D-OH), Chair of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on the Fiscal Year 2021 budget request for the Architect of the Capitol.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Malaysia is a federal constitutional monarchy. It has a parliamentary system of government selected through regular, multiparty elections and is headed by a prime minister. The king is the head of state, serves a largely ceremonial role, and has a five-year term. Sultan Muhammad V resigned as king on...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: PIKEVILLE, Ky. - A Pikeville, Kentucky man, Jimmy Lee Moore, 69, pleaded guilty on Monday, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Edward B. Atkins, to distributing hydrocodone.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: The Republic of Burundi is a constitutional, multiparty republic with an elected government. The 2018 constitution, promulgated in June, provides for an executive branch that reports to the president, a bicameral parliament, and an independent judiciary. In 2015 voters re-elected President Pierre Nkurunziza...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Holbrook resident was sentenced yesterday for distribution of heroin and cocaine base.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Health Subcommittee markup of 13 bills...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Angelo Perrucci, Jr., of Bangor, PA, has pleaded guilty to five counts of wire fraud before United States District Court Judge Joseph F. Leeson, Jr. The charges arise out of Perrucci’s scheme to defraud the estate of a client and its heirs by taking funds from the estate for his own personal use.
