News from May 2020
By EPA Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) spoke on the House floor opposing the partisan 1,815-page COVID-19 bill.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Cesar Martinez, Jr., 30, and Milton Miranda, Jr., 30, both of Rochester, NY, were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with conspiring to possess with intent to distribute, and possessing with intent to distribute, 500 grams or more of cocaine. The charges carry a minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 40 years, and a $5,000,000 fine.
By Commerce Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement after the House passed the partisan Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions (HEROES) Act, a bill Walden says “fails" the American people.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announces the sentencing on May 14, 2020 of PATRICIA HARGIS, age 71, of Gretna, for charges stemming from filing a false federal income tax return. U.S. District Judge Mary Ann Vial Lemmon sentenced HARGIS to 21 months of home confinement as part of a three-year probation term, a $7,500 fine, and restitution to the Internal Revenue Service in the amount of $110,810.
By DOE Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) issued the following statement on the partisan proxy-voting proposal put forth by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Mexican national will have his initial appearance in federal court in the District of Columbia later today on charges related to his alleged involvement in a criminal conspiracy to distribute cocaine and methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: Senior Mgt. Counsel and Law Enforcement Coordinator Cindy Cipriani (619) 546-9608.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: In El Paso today, federal authorities filed a criminal complaint against 25-year-old Vanessa Tarrango for communicating a threat online, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and FBI Special Agent in Charge Luis M. Quesada, El Paso Division.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Colombian national pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to cocaine trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: Fort Lauderdale, Florida - A federal judge today sentenced Frank Richard Beyer (a/k/a “Rick Beyer"), 75, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to 97 months in prison for possessing child pornography that included images of boys under age 12 engaged in sex acts and exposing their genitals. Prior to living in Florida, Beyer lived in New York, where he taught sixth grade and was an elementary school principal.
By Homeland Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on National Police Week and National Peace Officers’ Memorial Day...
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a federal indictment charging JEFFREY COLIN PURDY, 28, with cyberstalking and making interstate threats to injure and kidnap another person. PURDY was initially charged in a criminal complaint on March 2, 2020, and is currently in custody in the Sherburne County jail pending further court proceedings.
By State Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today led a bipartisan, bicameral letter to Secretary of State Michael Pompeo and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper in support of maintaining strong U.S. support to the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Monroeville, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOE Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement after the House passed the partisan Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions (HEROES) Act, a bill Walden says “fails" the American people.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on May 12, 2020, his office filed a one-count federal criminal complaint against a man allegedly involved in domestic violence against a woman on the Menominee Indian Reservation. The complaint named Justin M. Moore (age: 34) of Keshena.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Two Utah cities are receiving U.S. Department of Justice funding to support a broad range of activities as they respond to the coronavirus. The funding is coming from DOJ’s Bureau of Justice Assistance through the Coronavirus Emergency Funding Program.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) spoke on the House floor opposing the partisan 1,815-page COVID-19 bill.
By Commerce Newswire | May 15, 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. 6800, the Heroes Act...
