News from May 2020

By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2020
News Release: MACON, Ga. - A Tampa, Florida, resident with multiple prior convictions related to trafficking in forged U.S. currency is facing up to twenty years in prison for possessing counterfeit $100 bills, said Charlie Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. Tranorris Lamar Jackson, 27...

By DOE Newswire | May 1, 2020
News Release: Members of the Energy and Commerce Committee’s Health and Oversight and Investigations subcommittees today held a bipartisan teleconference forum with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Principal Deputy Director Anne Schuchat, M.D., to discuss racial disparities in health outcomes for COVID-19 patients.

By DOE Newswire | May 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Members of the Energy and Commerce Committee’s Health and Oversight and Investigations subcommittees today held a bipartisan teleconference forum with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Principal Deputy Director Anne Schuchat, M.D., to discuss racial disparities in health outcomes for COVID-19 patients.

By Interior Newswire | May 1, 2020
News Release: Cuyahoga Valley National Park News Release.

By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Kenneth D. Bell sentenced Brian Scott Harden, 39, of Hendersonville, N.C. late yesterday to 210 months in prison on child pornography charges, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Harden was also ordered to pay a $5,000 special assessment, serve a lifetime term of supervised release, and register as a sex offender after he is released from prison.
By DOE Newswire | May 1, 2020
News Release: Today, Chairs of the House Committees that oversee the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) voiced their strong opposition to a harmful Trump Administration rule that would roll back Affordable Care Act (ACA) nondiscrimination protections. In a letter, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman...
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney J. Douglas Overbey is asking anyone who has witnessed or experienced sexual harassment by a landlord, property manager, maintenance worker, or anyone with control over housing to report that conduct to the Department of Justice.

By Commerce Newswire | May 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, a group of Ways and Means Committee Democrats called on the Department of Treasury (Treasury) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to fulfill the intent of Congress and prioritize assistance for tribal communities amidst the COVID-19 crisis. Federally-recognized Indian tribes face unique and dire challenges in the current economic and public health emergency that have been exacerbated by delayed funding.

By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2020
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA: A convicted child molester is going to federal prison after being sentenced for possession of child pornography.

By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2020
News Release: HAMMOND- U.S. Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II is asking anyone who has witnessed or experienced sexual harassment by a landlord, property manager, maintenance worker, or anyone with control over housing to report that conduct to the Department of Justice.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2020
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Lawrence Keefe, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida,.
By EPA Newswire | May 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Members of the Energy and Commerce Committee’s Health and Oversight and Investigations subcommittees today held a bipartisan teleconference forum with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Principal Deputy Director Anne Schuchat, M.D., to discuss racial disparities in health outcomes for COVID-19 patients.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2020
News Release: Indianapolis - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today federal charges filed in the shooting of a United States Postal Service Letter Carrier.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, is asking anyone who has witnessed or experienced sexual harassment by a landlord, property manager, maintenance worker, or anyone with control over housing to report that conduct to the U.S. Department of Justice.

By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2020
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA: A convicted child molester is going to federal prison after being sentenced for possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2020
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On April 30, 2020, United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose sentenced Bruce Arthur Hauptman, age 67, formerly of Fairfield, to 42 months in prison for three counts of wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. The prison sentence for the three counts of...
By EPA Newswire | May 1, 2020
News Release: Today, Chairs of the House Committees that oversee the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) voiced their strong opposition to a harmful Trump Administration rule that would roll back Affordable Care Act (ACA) nondiscrimination protections. In a letter, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman...
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito is urging those who have experienced or have information about housing-related sexual harassment to report it to the Department of Justice.
By Commerce Newswire | May 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Chairs of the House Committees that oversee the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) voiced their strong opposition to a harmful Trump Administration rule that would roll back Affordable Care Act (ACA) nondiscrimination protections. In a letter, House Ways and Means Committee...

By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - The United States Attorney’s Offices of the Northern and Southern Districts of West Virginia, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the U.S. Small Business Administration are asking small business owners to be aware of possible scams relating to the CARES Act.