News from September 2020
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: Brooke Merrell has been selected to serve as the next Deputy Superintendent of Denali National Park and Preserve. Merrell has been serving in the position in an acting capacity since April of this year. She is currently the Team Lead for Environmental Planning and Compliance at the NPS Region 11 office in Anchorage.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian C. Rabbitt of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Assistant Director Calvin Shivers of the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division, Deputy Inspector General Gary Cantrell of the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) -Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, released a 44-page report, “COVID-19 & Achieving Health Equity: Congressional Action is Necessary to Address Racism and Inequality in the U.S. Health Care System," ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that YASIL SANTOS, also known as “Lilo," 25, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for distributing fentanyl and crack cocaine.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ranking Republican Rob Bishop (R-Utah) released the following statement on the new Department of the Interior (DOI) decision memorandum addressing allegations that taxpayer dollars were being used to support human rights abuses. Following a bipartisan Committee investigation...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox announced today that 17 individuals have been arrested in the Eastern District of Texas pursuant to a federal indictment which alleges drug trafficking and firearms violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: Six Charged in New Jersey in $100 Million Telemedicine Scheme; Three Men Admit Guilt in Unrelated Frauds.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS, MO - The Drug Enforcement Administration, United States Marshals Service and Homeland Security Investigations arrested 10 people Tuesday, including seven in the St. Louis area and three in Phoenix, on charges that include conspiracy to distribute cocaine, methamphetamine, and marijuana. Defendants are expected to be presented in federal court today. Among those charged were.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: Orlando, FL - U.S. District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza has sentenced Anthony Kenty Soto-Lopes (39, Orlando) to 11 years and 3 months in federal prison for aiding and abetting the making of a false statement to a licensed firearms dealer, and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. In January 2020, Judge...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $500,000 grant to Grambling State University, a Historically Black University in Grambling, Louisiana, to conduct a feasibility study that will serve as a road map to foster innovation and economic resiliency in the disaster-impacted Northwest Louisiana region. The EDA grant will be matched with $125,000 in local investment.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered remarks at a Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Pathway to a Vaccine: Ensuring a Safe and Effective Vaccine People Will Trust."
By DOE Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Energy and Commerce Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), member of the House Republican China Task Force, released the following statement on the release of the China Task Force report.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for drug trafficking and illegally possessing a firearm.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) joined with public and private-sector partners to conduct an interagency Tabletop Exercise (TTX) called “National Harbor 2020 - Recovery Phase Exercise," September 29 - 30, to test the processes and plans required by regional government and business partners following a notional catastrophic incident at National Harbor outside of Washington, D.C.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr.'s (D-NJ) remarks as prepared for delivery at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing titled, "Pathway to a Vaccine: Ensuring a Safe and Effective Vaccine People Will Trust," are enclosed below...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
Release: Washington, DC, Sept. 30, 2020 - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced today that low-income Alabama residents recovering from Hurricane Sally could be eligible for a helping hand from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (D-SNAP).
By DOE Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered remarks at a Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Pathway to a Vaccine: Ensuring a Safe and Effective Vaccine People Will Trust."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Panamanian man residing in Ansted pled guilty to a sex offense involving a minor, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Eugene Enrique Torres, 43, pled guilty to attempted enticement of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior United States District Judge John Antoon II has sentenced Josten Rakeem-Hassan Brown (28, Greenville, SC) to 20 months in federal prison for using an unauthorized access device (credit card). Two other defendants have also been sentenced in connection with the offense. Kenbee...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the American Chemistry Council (ACC) have renewed an alliance to protect the safety and health of workers handling diisocyanates, a compound used to make polyurethane.
