News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Acting United States Attorney Daniel P. Bubar of the Western District of Virginia today announced that the Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) has awarded more than $340,000 to a Charlottesville-based agency that handles sexual assault training and education.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Theft of Government Funds, False Statement, and Concealment of Information from SSI Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: HAMMOND - United States Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II announces three separate Indictments involving three defendants who were charged with a variety of crimes against children.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at today’s Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing titled, “The Trump FCC: Four Years of Lost Opportunities:"
By USDA Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated two Colorado counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Logan and Phillips counties who suffered losses caused by recent drought may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By State Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today convened a full committee hearing on advancing U.S. engagement and countering China in the Indo-Pacific and beyond, which included discussion of the STRATEGIC Act, legislation Risch introduced earlier ...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR) wrote to a group of 15 stakeholders today requesting their input regarding whether and how collegiate athletes should be compensated for the use of their name, image and likeness (NIL), and other related matters.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: VAN BUREN, MO -Between August 21 and September 7 the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration sponsored the “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over" campaign to reduce incidents of impaired driving leading up to and including Labor Day weekend. In partnership with state and local law enforcement agencies, the National Park Service Traffic Safety Coalition participated in high visibility traffic enforcement initiatives in support of this campaign.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - A local resident has admitted she defrauded the IRS of more than $1.5 million, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick along with Special Agent in Charge D. Richard Goss of IRS - Criminal Investigation (CI).
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued the following statement after the Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a new report warning that the Department of the Treasury is failing to adequately track or prioritize cyber risk mitigation efforts in the financial services sector...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: TACOMA, Wash. - A 39-year-old New Port Ritchey, Florida, man is in federal custody tonight charged with production of child pornography and enticement of a minor, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE), Homeland Security Investigation’s (HSI) Acting Special Agent in Charge in Seattle Eben Roberts...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - After the Senate Commerce Committee announced a hearing on the need for federal data privacy legislation, 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...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A Louisville, Kentucky, man, who fired the shot that killed a 7-year old child on May 21, 2017, has been sentenced to 70 months, followed by 3 years supervised release by U.S. District Judge Claria Horn Boom. Judge Boom also sentenced Williams to 24 hours per year of community service speaking about gun violence in this community. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of WARALEE WANLESS, 41, to 144 months in prison for her role in a massive international sex trafficking organization that was responsible for coercing hundreds of Thai women to engage in commercial sex acts across the United States. WANLESS was sentenced on Sept. 16, 2020, by Senior Judge Donovan Frank in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon and False Statements During Purchase of a Firearm was sentenced on Sept. 14, 2020, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: Today, the House is considering H.R. 2694, the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. While well-intentioned, this legislation unfortunately does not include a long-standing provision from the Civil Rights Act which protects religious organizations from being forced to make employment decisions that conflict with their faith.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A California man who admitted to trafficking meth for supplying almost two pounds of the drug, which was hidden in a peanut butter jar and a piñata and mailed to the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, was sentenced today to six years in prison and five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Springfield man was sentenced yesterday for sex trafficking female victims through a prostitution business.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, Susan A. Gibson, and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Craig Carpenito, announced an Essex County, New Jersey, man made his initial appearance today on charges of illegally possessing a handgun and possessing heroin with the intent to distribute, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Senator Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., Senator Patty Murray, D-Wa., and Senator Kamala Harris, D-Calif., today introduced legislation to provide tax relief to individuals, businesses and states affected by catastrophic wildfires and other presidentially-declared disasters.
