News from May 2020
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2020
News Release: Apotex Corp., a generic pharmaceutical company headquartered in Florida, was charged with fixing the price of the generic drug pravastatin, the Department of Justice announced today. According to the one-count felony charge filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2020
News Release: With Being A Felon In Possession Of A Firearm.
By Homeland Newswire | May 7, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Gary Peters, Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, introduced legislation to strengthen the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s disaster response efforts for communities of color who often face barriers to securing federal aid following...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Missouri, man has been charged in federal court with sexually assaulting three teenagers and recording the abuse on his cell phone.
By Commerce Newswire | May 7, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma today raising a series of concerns over the methodology used to distribute and the lack of transparency into how COVID-19 relief funds and loans for health care providers are being spent.
By Interior Newswire | May 7, 2020
News Release: Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River invites the public to help save lives by showing their support for water safety on “Wear Your Life Jacket to Work (or Home)" Day on Friday, May 15, 2020. Since 1980, there have been 69 drownings on the Upper Delaware River however nobody has ever drowned wearing...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2020
News Release: A convicted felon who illegally possessed a gun was sentenced May 6, 2020, to twenty-one months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2020
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - David Clay Fowlkes, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Donald Whitaker, age 35 of Sulphur Springs, AR was sentenced today to 150 months in federal prison followed by 5 years of supervised release on one count of Distribution of More Than 50 Grams of Actual Methamphetamine. The Honorable Judge Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearing today in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By Interior Newswire | May 7, 2020
News Release: Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt today announced the Bison Conservation Initiative, a new cooperative initiative that will coordinate conservation strategies and approaches for the wild American Bison over the next 10 years. The Department of the Interior and its partners have been successful...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2020
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced today that Carnell Briggs, 21, appeared in court via video conference and was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote, to eight months in federal prison and three years of supervised release, for possessing a stolen firearm. Briggs pled guilty to this charge on Dec. 19, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, PA, has been sentenced in federal court to two years’ (24 months’) imprisonment on his conviction for conspiracy to distribute heroin, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOE Newswire | May 7, 2020
News Release: The Navajo Nation extends over 26,000 square miles and is the largest sovereign nation in the United States. Its impressive size occupies all of northeastern Arizona, as well as parts of southeastern Utah and northwestern New Mexico.
By DOL Newswire | May 7, 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, delivered opening remarks at a HELP Committee hearing on the COVID-19 crisis and the need to improve testing. In her remarks, Senator Murray sharply criticized the Trump Administration for its handling of the crisis over the last few months.
By State Newswire | May 7, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement after the U.S. Senate confirmed Admiral Brett Giroir to be representative of the United States on the executive board of the World Health Organization (WHO).
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2020
News Release: Evansville - U.S. Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today that the City of Evansville received $218,478 and Vanderburgh County received $58,008 in Department of Justice grants to respond to the public safety challenges posed by the outbreak of COVID-19.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2020
News Release: FORT WAYNE, Ind. - Jamie Lynn Lantz, 39, of Fort Wayne, Indiana was sentenced before U.S. District Court Judge Holly A. Brady for distribution of fifty grams or more of methamphetamine, announced Assistant Special Agent in Charge J. Michael Gannon and U.S. Attorney Thomas Kirsch.
By State Newswire | May 7, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, along with Representatives Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) and Joe Courtney (D-Conn.), co-chairs of the Friends of Australia Caucus, today led a bipartisan, bicameral ...
By Commerce Newswire | May 7, 2020
News Release: Big News for Rural Health Care: Some Public Hospitals Eligible for PPP Funding.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Braddock, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 10 years imprisonment and eight years supervised release on his conviction of narcotics trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - U.S. Attorney Bill Powell of the Northern District of West Virginia today announced that the city of Clarksburg received $37,272 in Department of Justice grants to respond to the public safety challenges posed by the outbreak of COVID-19.
