News from May 2020
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Attorney General William P. Barr has directed U.S. Attorney’s Offices across the country to investigate reports of housing-related sexual harassment resulting from the current COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOE Newswire | May 1, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order, Securing the United States Bulk-Power System. The Executive Order authorizes U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette to work with the Cabinet and energy industry to secure America’s Bulk-Power System.
By Commerce 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 US DOT Newswire | May 1, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the House Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) initiated a records request regarding the response of the Carnival Corporation, ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger announced today that Center for Pain Management, S.C. (“CPM"), and its owner, Dr. Nosheen Hasan, agreed to pay at least $1.35 million to resolve allegations that they received kickbacks from a urine drug testing laboratory in exchange for ordering medically unnecessary...
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2020
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - U.S. Attorney Robert M. Duncan, Jr., is asking anyone who has witnessed or experienced sexual harassment by anyone with control over housing, including landlords, property managers, maintenance workers, loan officers, or others, to report that conduct to the Department of Justice.
By Commerce 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 DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2020
News Release: FBI Charlotte Seeking Victims in $2 Million Home Improvement Fraud Investigation.
By Homeland Newswire | May 1, 2020
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, and Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Chairman of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, released the following statement urging President Trump to release funding for FEMA to pay for burial costs for victims of COVID-19. In past disasters, FEMA has paid these costs...
By EPA 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 Commerce 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 DOL Newswire | May 1, 2020
News Release: During today’s virtual forum with the members of the Committee on Education and Labor, Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) discussed the impact of COVID-19 and proposals to support workers, families, businesses, and communities...
By Interior Newswire | May 1, 2020
News Release: Eric Veach, Superintendent of Kenai Fjords National Park, has recently accepted a position with the U.S. Forest Service as the Forest Supervisor of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in Washington state.
By EPA Newswire | May 1, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Energy Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Upton (R-MI), and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL) released the following statement on President Trump’s Executive Order to secure the United States Bulk-Power System (BPS).
By Interior Newswire | May 1, 2020
News Release: Staten Island, N.Y. - Tangible Nature, a virtual exhibit of photographs by Dean Moses, is available for viewing on Gateway’s website at www.nps.gov/gate. This exhibit explores the relationship and rapport humans can have with nature. “More than a walk on the trail or a rest beside the water; nature is...
By DOL Newswire | May 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued an alert with safety tips for restaurant, and food and beverage businesses to protect their workers from coronavirus exposure while they provide curbside pickup and takeout service.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2020
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Lawrence Keefe, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, today announced that four counties in the district have been awarded a combined total of more than $240,000 in Department of Justice grants to respond to the public safety challenges posed by the outbreak of COVID-19.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Tricia Steele Boutros, a 41-year-old District of Columbia resident, pled guilty in federal court in the District of Columbia to a three-year scheme to defraud financial institutions and account holders of approximately $3.5 million by illegally accessing bank accounts.
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: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Energy Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Upton (R-MI), and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL) released the following statement on President Trump’s Executive Order to secure the United States Bulk-Power System (BPS).
