News from May 2020
By EPA Newswire | May 8, 2020
News Release: May 8, 2020 (WASHINGTON) - Today, several House committee and subcommittee chairs sent a letter to the Departments of Homeland Security (DHS) and Health & Human Services (HHS) regarding recent news reports alleging that the Trump Administration is considering implementing policies that could unnecessarily...
By State Newswire | May 8, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By Interior Newswire | May 8, 2020
News Release: CARSON CITY, Nev - With the lifting of public health and safety restrictions enacted by Nevada government officials, the Bureau of Land Management, Stillwater Field Office (SFO), today announced that Sand Mountain Recreation Area (SMRA) will re-open to the public for recreational access. The BLM is working...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Nathaniel Brad Moffitt, 40, of Statesville, N.C., was sentenced to 15 months in prison late yesterday for fraudulently obtaining more than $500,000 in business loans, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. In addition to the prison term imposed, U.S. District Judge Kenneth D. Bell also ordered Moffitt serve two years of supervised release, and to pay approximately $114,000 as restitution.
By US DOT Newswire | May 8, 2020
News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Ranking Members Sam Graves (R-MO) and Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Ranking Member Bob Gibbs (R-OH) discussed highlights from a Subcommittee briefing on how the U.S. maritime industry is responding during the COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOE Newswire | May 8, 2020
News Release: May 8, 2020 (WASHINGTON) - Today, several House committee and subcommittee chairs sent a letter to the Departments of Homeland Security (DHS) and Health & Human Services (HHS) regarding recent news reports alleging that the Trump Administration is considering implementing policies that could unnecessarily...
By USDA Newswire | May 8, 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 U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative complaint against Double D Sales Company Inc. The company, operating from California, allegedly failed to make payment promptly to three produce sellers in the amount of $378,663 from July 2018 through September 2018.
By USDA Newswire | May 8, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a bipartisan letter to President Donald Trump Friday, House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson of Minnesota urged the Administration to provide guidance on how the Federal Emergency Management Agency can help farmers depopulate and dispose of livestock following the closure...
By DOE Newswire | May 8, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX) sent a letter to Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna Eshoo (D-CA) to call for a hearing on the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS).
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams is asking anyone who has witnessed or experienced discrimination or sexual harassment by a landlord, property manager, maintenance worker, or anyone with control over housing to report this conduct.
By State Newswire | May 8, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, led a bipartisan Committee virtual briefing Thursday on Authoritarianism, Disinformation, and Good Governance During COVID-19 with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, National Democratic Institute (NDI) President Derek Mitchell, and International Republican Institute (IRI) President Dr. Daniel Twining.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that Dr. Eric Heffelfinger, a pulmonologist who previously practiced in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, will pay $50,000 and permanently lose his ability to prescribe opioids to resolve allegations that he improperly prescribed oxycodone and split the pills with a patient for his own personal use.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2020
News Release: A woman who helped a man obtain a fatal quantity of opioids pled guilty on May 7, 2020, in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By Commerce Newswire | May 8, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, and Bob Casey, D-Pa. today announced legislation that would establish a new $10 billion Coronavirus Emergency Assistance Grant program to help low-income families and individuals experiencing significant financial hardship during the COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Santa Monica man has agreed to plead guilty to a federal fraud charge for a romance scam in which he deceived women he met online and elsewhere into investing tens of thousands of dollars into his sham sound design and software companies, only to take the money and spend it on himself.
By Commerce Newswire | May 8, 2020
News Release: May 8, 2020 (WASHINGTON) - Today, several House committee and subcommittee chairs sent a letter to the Departments of Homeland Security (DHS) and Health & Human Services (HHS) regarding recent news reports alleging that the Trump Administration is considering implementing policies that could unnecessarily...
By US DOT Newswire | May 8, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued an emergency order revoking the repair station certificate of Ecolift Corporation of San Juan, P.R.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to five years’ (60 months’) imprisonment and four years supervised release on his conviction of conspiracy for possession with intent to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | May 8, 2020
News Release: Copper Center, AK. Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve will open and maintain certain outhouses and vault toilets on or near roads and trailheads in the park. Facilities that are open will be maintained in accordance with state and local health guidance (unless otherwise posted) to reduce the transmission of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
By US DOT Newswire | May 8, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Grace F. Napolitano (D-CA) introduced the Clean Water for All Act, which would prohibit the implementation of the Trump administration’s...
