News from May 2020
By US DOT Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued multiple Notice to Airmen (NOTAMS) Temporary Flight Restriction (TFR) around Cape Canaveral, Fla., through Saturday, May 30, 2020.
By DOE Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold the Committee’s first fully remote hearing on Tuesday, June 2, at 11:30 a.m. (EDT). The hearing is entitled, “On the Front Line: How Governors are Battling the COVID-19 Pandemic."
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: Ocala, Florida - U.S. District Judge John Antoon II has sentenced Darlene Nanette Rodriguez (46, Fruitland Park) to one year and one day in federal prison for theft of government property. The court also ordered Rodriguez to forfeit $173,619.40, which are proceeds of the offense. She had pleaded guilty on March 12, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that David Wims, 41, La Crosse, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty and was sentenced on May 21 by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 90 months in federal prison for possessing a mixture of fentanyl and heroin for distribution.
By Commerce Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: Washington - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) commended President Trump’s announcement of a new Medicare Part D initiative to lower out of pocket insulin expenses for seniors. Grassley issued the following statement today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Reston man was arrested today on charges of selling fentanyl to an individual who later overdosed on the drug and died.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - An 80-year-old Mission man has entered a guilty plea for attempting to export contraband cigarettes, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: PHONE: (716) 843-5817. FAX #: (716) 551-3051. ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Michael Matzen, 39, of Troy, NY, who was convicted of escaping from federal custody and to two counts of bank robbery, was sentenced to serve 65 months in prison by Chief U.S. District...
By Commerce Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Christi A. Grimm, the Principal Deputy Inspector General (IG) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), provided a video briefing to the Committee on her office’s ongoing oversight of HHS’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Russell Graham, 40, of Lowell, Massachusetts was arrested on a federal complaint charging him with distributing child pornography, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOL Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: An employee suffered a fatal fall from a communications tower while attempting to connect two sections during the construction. OSHA cited the Calico Rock, Arkansas-based company for failing to ensure employees used fall protection, and designate, identify and train employees to provide rescue in the event of an emergency.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Thomas Cooper, a mail carrier in Pendleton County, was charged today in a criminal complaint with attempted election fraud, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: In San Antonio today, a federal judge sentenced 43-year-old Jason Lee Sarabia to 285 months in federal prison for receiving and possessing child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Andrew Murray announced today that David Matthew Harold, 42, of Weaverville, N.C., was sentenced to 200 months in prison and five years of supervised release on federal firearms offenses. U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn Jr. presided over the sentencing.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: Oregon FBI Tech Tuesday: Building a Digital Defense in the Cloud.
By Commerce Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2 million grant to the city of Wells, Nevada, to make critical water infrastructure improvements needed to maintain commercial and industrial operations...
By EPA Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX) released the following statement after President Donald Trump’s announcement on lowering insulin costs for seniors.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert for the District of the Virgin Islands announced that fugitive Nijohntea Walker was arrested Friday afternoon by special agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. A complaint was previously filed against Walker ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank, Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey and Maine Commissioner of Labor Laura Fortman warned that scammers are taking advantage of pandemic unemployment assistance programs to file fraudulent claims by using the personal information of other people...
By Commerce Newswire | May 26, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX) released the following statement after President Donald Trump’s announcement on lowering insulin costs for seniors.
