News from May 2020
By Commerce Newswire | May 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-VA) released the following statement after Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy laid out four strategies for reopening the House of Representatives along with top Republicans from the Committees on Rules and House Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2020
News Release: Prosecuting Attorneys' Council Joins Statewide COVID-19 Fraud Task Force.
By DOE Newswire | May 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-VA) released the following statement after Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy laid out four strategies for reopening the House of Representatives along with top Republicans from the Committees on Rules and House Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2020
News Release: Called a Cedar Rapids Bank More than 40 times in Two Days and Made a False Report of a Fire at the Bank.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2020
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Gregory Moody, 39, of Colchester, Vermont was sentenced today to 54 months in prison for robbing a T.D. Bank in St. Albans, Vermont and a Community Bank, NA in South Burlington, Vermont in March 2019. U.S. District Judge...
By Commerce Newswire | May 4, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal, D-Mass., today requested that the Treasury Department reverse its current guidance and allow employers providing health insurance to furloughed workers to be eligible for the employee retention credit.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Monmouth County, New Jersey, man will have his initial appearance today for possessing a machine gun as a previously convicted felon, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Commerce Newswire | May 4, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee members held a bipartisan teleconference forum with Admiral Brett P. Giroir, M.D., Assistant Secretary of Health at the Department of Health and Human Services, on the Administration’s COVID-19 testing efforts.
By US DOT Newswire | May 4, 2020
News Release: In Case You Missed It, this op-ed by Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO), published in The Hill, discusses how new legislation will remove barriers to using Economic Development Administration (EDA) grants for completing broadband projects in rural and economically distressed communities.
By Interior Newswire | May 4, 2020
News Release: Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site is now accepting applications for a 2020 Teacher Ranger Teacher (TRT), an extended professional development opportunity for educators from K-12 schools to learn about the resources and educational materials available through the National Park Service.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Northland Associates, Inc. (Northland), its president James Tyler, The Diverse Construction Group, LLC (Diverse), and their bonding agent, Rose & Kiernan, Inc., have agreed to pay the United States $4,470,000 to resolve allegations that they fraudulently exploited contracting opportunities...
By Interior Newswire | May 4, 2020
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) in coordination with WSSC Water invites public comment through May 18, 2020 on an Environmental Assessment (EA) for the relocation of a sanitary sewer line within Greenbelt Park. The NPS and WSSC Water propose to relocate a 400-foot section of a 21-inch reinforced concrete sewer pipe located along Still Creek within the park to accommodate construction of a new bridge.
By Commerce Newswire | May 4, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, issued the following statement after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) revised its policy on serological antibody testing to address wide gaps in the Trump Administration’s handling of serology tests identified in the Subcommittee’s investigation...
By Interior Newswire | May 4, 2020
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska - In order to minimize the risk of transmission during the current COVID-19 pandemic while continuing to inform local communities of potential actions that may affect them, the BLM worked within national, state, and local health guidance to provide virtual presentations on the Supplement to the Willow Master Development Plan Draft Environmental Impact Statement.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2020
News Release: Florence, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr. announced today that Gregory Jay Evans, Jr., 28, and Talvin Jerode Robinson, 41, both of Cheraw, were sentenced via videoconference to 10 years and approximately five years, respectively, in federal prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2020
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Lexington-based podiatry practice Lexington Foot and Ankle Center, PSC (“Lexington Foot & Ankle") and Dr. Michael Allen have agreed to resolve civil allegations that they violated the False Claims Act, a federal law that prohibits the submission of false or fraudulent claims to the federal government, agreeing to pay the United States $750,000.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2020
News Release: The Department of Justice and federal prosecutors remain vigilant in investigating and prosecuting landlords and property managers who sexually harass tenants during the COVID-19 pandemic, warned U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox.
By Commerce Newswire | May 4, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau, in coordination with federal, state and local health officials, will begin a phased restart of some 2020 Census field operations in select geographic areas this week.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2020
News Release: CINCINNATI - A Cincinnati company has agreed to pay the United States $50,000 for illegally importing a listed chemical from China.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that AHMAD NAQVI, the chief operating officer of Elm Tree Investment Advisors LLC (“ETIA"), pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos to securities fraud charges stemming from his role in...
