News from November 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Jean Luis Colon, age 23, of Troy, New York, pled guilty today to possessing and intending to distribute heroin, and to possessing a firearm with an altered serial number.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden County, New Jersey, man made his initial court appearance today on charges of possessing with intent to distribute cocaine, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Palmer "Chip" Jenkins, Jr., has been named as the new superintendent of Grand Teton National Park and the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Memorial Parkway in Wyoming. Jenkins has more than 34 years of experience working in and leading national parks and is currently serving as the superintendent of Mount Rainer National Park. He will assume his new role in the next 60 days.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Nathan A. Hart, age 25, of Plattsburgh, New York, was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for cocaine trafficking.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is reminding everyone whose drone registrations expire in December that the DroneZone is the FAA’s official website for registration.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) released the following joint statement today after the House of Representatives passed three consumer protection and commerce bills...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A California couple was sentenced today for conspiracy charges in connection with securing the fraudulent admission of their daughter to the University of Southern California (USC) as a purported athletic recruit.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) released the following joint statement after the House of Representatives passed ten health care bills today...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell has sentenced Richard Paul Cote (53, Melbourne) to 15 years and 8 months in federal prison for committing two bank robberies in Collier County. The court also ordered Cote to pay $5,134 in restitution to the victim banks.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: Defendant Admits that his Fentanyl Distribution Resulted in the Death of Two Victims, Including His Own Mother.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement after House leadership elections.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH) released a statement after the House passed three communications and technology bills that were reported favorably from the Energy and Commerce Committee.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement after the Department of Homeland Security initiated a series of convoluted legal maneuvers to again attempt to validate Chad Wolf’s role as Acting Homeland Security Secretary and legitimize his official actions. On Saturday, a Federal court again ruled that he was illegally appointed to his position.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - U.S. Attorney Stephen Cox of the Eastern District of Texas today announced the expansion of the Criminal Division, Fraud Section’s existing Gulf Coast Health Care Fraud Strike Force to include the Eastern District of Texas. The Strike Force is a joint law enforcement effort that brings...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts and the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division have concluded an investigation into conditions at the Massachusetts Department of Correction (MDOC) and found reason to believe that the conditions violate the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Segundo Reascos-Rodriguez, 40, of Buffalo, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with production and receipt of child pornography. The charges carry a minimum penalty of 15 years in prison, a maximum of 30 years, and a $250,000 fine.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) released the following joint statement today after the House of Representatives passed three communications and technology bills...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - The former Chief Executive Officer of a U.S. government contractor was charged today in connection with schemes to defraud the U.S. Department of Defense regarding contracts related to U.S. military efforts in Afghanistan.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, is raising concerns that continued delays to the Presidential transition could interfere with the incoming Biden Administration’s efforts to effectively distribute potential Coronavirus...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON-Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-La.) today issued the following statement on the Government Accountability Office’s report on the FDA’s issuance of emergency use authorizations during the COVID-19 pandemic.
