News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - The former Enforcer of the Boston-based Devon Street Kings Chapter of the Massachusetts Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (“Latin Kings") pleaded guilty today to racketeering charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS, MO - United States Judge John A. Ross sentenced Ryan Palmieri to 80 months in prison for child enticement. The 37 year old is a resident of Charleston, South Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: Crimes Resulted in Over Half a Million Dollars in Loss and 540 Victims.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) announced that the Health Subcommittee will hold a fully remote hearing on Wednesday, Sept. 23, at 10 a.m. (EDT) on the Affordable Care Act’s impacts on the status of health care coverage for Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic and the severe economic downturn. The hearing is entitled, “Health Care Lifeline: The Affordable Care Act and the COVID-19 Pandemic."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS, MO - United States District Judge John A. Ross accepted a plea, today, from 48-year-old Ashu Joshi. Joshi, a St. Louis resident, pleaded guilty to distribution of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - The former Enforcer of the Boston-based Devon Street Kings Chapter of the Massachusetts Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (“Latin Kings") pleaded guilty today to racketeering charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to one year of probation and ordered to perform 150 hours of community service on her guilty plea to mail fraud and engaging in monetary transactions in property derived from specified unlawful activity, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to one year of probation and ordered to perform 150 hours of community service on her guilty plea to mail fraud and engaging in monetary transactions in property derived from specified unlawful activity, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) released the following statement on Committee Democrats’ continued attempts to politicize the search for a COVID-19 vaccine and the administration’s response efforts.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: U.S. Seeks to Recover More Than $300 Million in Additional Assets Traceable to Funds Allegedly Misappropriated from Malaysian Sovereign Wealth Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Michael Laury, age 41, formerly of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, was convicted following a jury trial, of methamphetamine and false statement offenses. The six-day trial was held before United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion in Scranton.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy today announced $24 million in funding for 2 projects as part of the first stage of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E) Seeding Critical Advances for Leading Energy technologies with Untapped Potential (SCALEUP) program. These SCALEUP...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 16, 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 statement today in response to the Trump Administration’s refusal to hand over documents related to the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) denial of an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) request to use hydroxychloroquine for certain COVID-19 patients...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that on Sept. 16, 2020, United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. sentenced Leonel Dario Blanco-Sanchez to a term of imprisonment of 80 months. Blanco-Sanchez will serve a 5-year term of supervised release following his release from the Bureau of Prisons. There is no parole in the federal system.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) announced that the Health Subcommittee will hold a fully remote hearing on Wednesday, Sept. 23, at 10 a.m. (EDT) on the Affordable Care Act’s impacts on the status of health care coverage for Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic and the severe economic downturn. The hearing is entitled, “Health Care Lifeline: The Affordable Care Act and the COVID-19 Pandemic."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two Iranian nationals have been charged in connection with a coordinated cyber intrusion campaign - sometimes at the behest of the government of Iran - targeting computers in New Jersey and around the world, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE) sent a letter to U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) Comptroller Gene L. Dodaro requesting that the GAO investigate...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Cody Michael Tarner, 23, of Hagerstown, Maryland, was indicted by a federal grand jury with multiple offenses related to his burning of two police cars and the attempted burning of a third police vehicle, announced Michael R. Sherwin, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia and Matthew R. Alcoke, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Washington Field Office Counterterrorism Division.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) announced that the Health Subcommittee will hold a fully remote hearing on Wednesday, Sept. 23, at 10 a.m. (EDT) on the Affordable Care Act’s impacts on the status of health care coverage for Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic and the severe economic downturn. The hearing is entitled, “Health Care Lifeline: The Affordable Care Act and the COVID-19 Pandemic."
By Interior Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, in conjunction with the Whiskeytown Environmental School Community (WESC), will mark the 50th Anniversary of Whiskeytown Environmental School (WES) on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020. This is the first time the WES campus will be open to the public since the Carr Fire...
