News from October 2020
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH), and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement after tech giants...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: (FORT BENTON, Mont.) -The Missouri Breaks Interpretive Center has closed for the season starting Oct. 12, 2020. However, the rest of the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument is still open to be explored and enjoyed.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced over $27 million in funding for 12 projects that will support the development of advanced plastics recycling technologies and new plastics that are recyclable-by-design. As part of DOE’s Plastics Innovation Challenge, these projects will also help improve existing recycling processes that break plastics into chemical building blocks, which can then be used to make new products.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: Five Alleged Members of the Gangster Disciples Indicted on Federal Racketeering Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Phillip Coyne, Special Agent in Charge for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, and David Sundberg, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On Oct. 14, 2020, Gregory Michael Press, age 46, of West Des Moines, was sentenced to two years in prison by United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose for wire fraud announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Press was ordered by the Court to serve three years of supervised release to follow his prison term. Additionally, he must pay $450,000 to the victim.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Ten individuals have been charged in the District of Nevada for their alleged roles in unemployment insurance fraud schemes, including charges for conspiracy, mail fraud, identity theft, and unlawful possession and use of fraudulently obtained unemployment debit cards.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: Despite Pandemic, United States Attorney’s Office For The Western District Of New York Increased Gun Prosecutions In District By Over 50% In FY20.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: FARMINGTON, PA. The staff at Fort Necessity National Battlefield and Friendship Hill National Historic Site have produced a series of virtual activities for students and young people who are unable to visit the sites. These programs can be can used by teachers and parents in their curriculum for children...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: Florence, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr., announced today that Gabriel Santos-Canales, 37, of Conway, was sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison after pleading guilty to possessing controlled substances with intent to distribute the substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: DUBLIN, GA: A Georgia Department of Corrections officer and her convicted-felon boyfriend were sentenced to federal prison for possession of drugs packaged for smuggling into prison.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, President Trump released the “National Strategy for Critical and Emerging Technologies,” which outlines how the United States will promote and protect our competitive edge in wide-ranging technologies that are critical to U.S. national security and our economic advantage. This ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Raleigh man pleaded guilty today to Conspiracy to Commit Bank Fraud.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) wrote to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today urging them to adopt its proposed Made in USA rule.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: A superseding indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn against Walter Fernando Alfaro Pineda, also known as “Clever," a Houston-based national leader of the 18th Street gang. The superseding indictment, which was unsealed as to 11 co-defendants in March 2020, charges Alfaro with racketeering...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 261,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2020/2021 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: U.S. Victims of Various Cybercriminal Malware Schemes throughout the United States Had Stolen Multi-Million Dollar Funds Laundered by QQAAZZ.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, spoke about his investigation into the Biden family’s conflicts of interest in an appearance on Fox News’ Hannity Wednesday night.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) and Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-AR) statements on the President’s Executive Order on “Modernizing America’s Water Resource Management and Water Infrastructure" and establishment of a Water Subcabinet that encompasses multiple federal departments and agencies...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore) experienced a 42% increase in recreational visitation* last month compared to September 2019. The 345,249 visits amounted to the 2nd-highest level of September visitation since the establishment of the Seashore in 1953.
