News from November 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Calvin Claxton, a/k/a Cal, age 41, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty today to his participation in a drug distribution conspiracy operating in the Edmondson Village neighborhood in southwest Baltimore. The drug trafficking organization (“DTO") of which Claxton was a member sold heroin and cocaine on a daily basis in street-level quantities.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - Two men have been indicted on federal firearm offenses for allegedly trafficking multiple handguns from Indiana to Chicago.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, Ga. - A former Pelham, Georgia resident, caught by Homeland Security Investigations distributing large amounts of child pornography on social media while he was attempting to foster a child, was sentenced to 188 months in federal prison for his crimes today, said Charlie Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - April Allen, age 30, of Fort Ann, New York, pled guilty today to conspiring to distribute cocaine. The announcement was made by Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon and Ray Donovan, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), New York Division.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: Today, Committee Chairs across the House of Representatives sent letters directing the White House and more than 50 federal agencies within their jurisdictions to comply with federal record-keeping laws and preserve information responsive to congressional subpoenas and investigations.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Quincy real estate broker was charged today for his role in a scheme to falsely market properties that were not for sale, or had already been sold, to steal real estate deposits.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan, and Rep. Don Young, all R-Alaska, today issued statements on new legislation they introduced to allow the Alaska Native communities of Haines, Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, and Tenakee to form urban corporations and receive land entitlements under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 (ANCSA).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Joshua Aaron Roy, of Maysville, West Virginia, is facing a firearms charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today wrote to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Joseph Simons demanding that the two commissions stop work on all partisan or controversial items currently under consideration in light of the results of last week’s presidential election.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Census Bureau released the report “Commuting Patterns of Older Workers in the United States: 2013-2017 " that describes commuting patterns of older workers in the United States based on data from the five-year 2013-2017 American Community Survey (ACS).
By EPA Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) required Zoom Video Communications, Inc. to...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Committee Chairs across the House of Representatives sent letters directing the White House and more than 50 federal agencies within their jurisdictions to comply with federal record-keeping laws and preserve information responsive to congressional subpoenas and investigations.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Wayne Velasquez, 30, of Albuquerque, was arraigned in federal court on Oct. 28 for possession of an unregistered firearm. Velasquez will remain in custody pending trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Joshua Caleb Haggerty, of Petersburg, West Virginia, is facing drug and firearms charges, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On November 9, 2020, United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey sentenced Phillip Christopher Lytton, age 43, formerly of Des Moines, to 48 months in prison for Possession of Child Pornography, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Lytton was ordered to serve five years of supervised release to follow his prison term and comply with sex offender registry requirements upon release.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Meadville, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on charges of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 130,000 metric tons of corn for delivery to South Korea during the 2020/2021 marketing year.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today ahead of oral arguments in California v. Texas, a Republican lawsuit that seeks to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA):
By DOE Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) required Zoom Video Communications, Inc. to...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) required Zoom Video Communications, Inc. to...
