News from October 2020
By DOE Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released a statement today following new press reports detailing the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) last-minute decision against banning the use of formaldehyde in hair straightening products after agency scientists detected high-levels of the substance in their formulas...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - U.S. Attorney David C. Weiss announced today that Assistant U.S. Attorney (“AUSA") Shamoor Anis will lead his Office’s efforts in connection with the U.S. Department of Justice’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming Nov. 3, 2020 general election. AUSA Anis has been...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Christina E. Nolan announced today that Assistant United States Attorneys (AUSA) Michael Drescher and Barbara Masterson will lead the efforts of her Office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming Nov. 3, 2020, general election.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: Riverside, California Man Who Admitted Planning Mass Casualty Attacks and Purchasing Firearms Later Used in 2015 Terrorist Attack in San Bernardino Ordered to Serve 20-Year Federal Prison Sentence.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 23, 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), Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX), and Representative Morgan Griffith (R-VA) wrote to Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Acting Administrator Timothy J. Shea to request a briefing on DEA’s management of the supply of opioids in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: BANGOR, Maine: A Waterbury, Connecticut man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Bangor for possessing heroin with intent to distribute, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that federal grand jury in New Haven has returned an indictment charging JOEL MARTINEZ, JR., 22, of New Haven, with narcotics distribution and firearm possession offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - MARTAVIOUS ARNEZ GROSS, 23, of Lawton, Oklahoma, was sentenced today to serve 120 months in prison for possessing a firearm during a road rage incident on the H.E. Bailey Turnpike while subject to a domestic violence protective order, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX) released the following statement ahead of the 2-year anniversary of the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act being signed into law.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn announced that Gregorio Lopez, a former official with the United States Small Business Administration (“SBA"), has paid $15,000 to settle a civil case alleging that after he left the SBA, he attempted to improperly influence actions of the SBA in violation of federal law.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: Calling all K-12 students interested in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM): The 2020 Federal Aviation Administration STEM Aviation and Space Education Airport Design Challenge is now open for enrollment through Oct. 25, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that Michael Darnell Ramsey, 47, of Rainelle, was sentenced to 135 months in prison for attempted sex trafficking of a minor. Upon release from prison, Ramsey will serve a term of 25 years of supervised release and be required to register as a sex offender.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
Release: BAYONNE, N.J. - While visiting various regional transportation hubs earlier this week as part of his official duties, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Deputy Administrator Michael T. Miklos stopped by the New Jersey Department of Motor Vehicles office to get his REAL ID-compliant driver’s license.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that an Anchorage police officer has been indicted for Deprivation of Civil Rights Under Color of Law.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: Sulphur, Okla.- Work on Chickasaw National Recreation Area’s new bison enclosure is scheduled to begin in late October. Planning for this project began in 2017. Work scheduled for this fall includes surveying and staking the fence line, as well as some vegetation removal to prepare the site for fencing. Visitors to the park may see machinery in the area as preparation work takes place. Fence construction is scheduled to begin in the spring.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today issued a report highlighting the progress made to date in implementing the agricultural provisions in the U.S.-China Phase One Economic and Trade Agreement, which is delivering historic results for American agriculture.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - U.S. Marshal Tyreece Miller announces the capture of Charles Bright for Second Degree Murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: ROANOKE, Virginia - Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Virginia, Daniel P. Bubar, and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Assistant Special Agent (DEA) in Charge (ASAC) of the Richmond District Office, Christopher Goumenis, announced today that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that SAJID JAVED, an owner and operator of a number of pharmacies in the New York City area, was sentenced to 30 months in prison for using his pharmacies to submit more than $7.1 million in fraudulent...
By State Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement regarding today’s launch of a U.S.-EU dialogue on China:
