News from September 2020
By Commerce 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: Project Safe Neighborhoods Initiative Will Seek to Reduce Violent Crime in Gulfport and Harrison County.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: New Orleans, LA - A U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) led two-month operation in the New Orleans, Louisiana metro area has resulted in the rescue or recovery of 11 children.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: The defendant allegedly swindled more than 50 victims, including former fraternity brothers.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: As temperatures continue to drop, the Bighorn Canyon staff continues to close facilities for the winter.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a federal indictment charging GERALD SEAN CLARK, 49, with one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm and two counts of being a felon in possession of ammunition. CLARK will make his initial appearance in U.S. District Court at a later date.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Wareham man was arrested and charged yesterday with possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A Richmond Hill man has admitted that he created fake email addresses and concocted other information to falsely accuse a former acquaintance of committing violations of patient privacy.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure approved a slate of bipartisan measures during a Full Committee markup, including legislation to strengthen the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) certification process and ease financial burdens on states and local governments during emergencies and major disasters.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Crispin Fernandez, age 27, of Pacoima, California, was sentenced on Sept. 30, 2020 to 13 years’ imprisonment and to serve 10 years on supervised release by U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion for his participation in a heroin trafficking conspiracy that shipped more than a kilogram of heroin from California to Carbon County, Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that HAROLD GORDON, 71, of Templeton, Massachusetts, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to five years of probation for defrauding a Connecticut art dealer.
By State Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement on the passing of Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah:
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Missouri, man has been sentenced in federal court for his role in a conspiracy to distribute large amounts of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Holyoke man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Springfield for distributing heroin.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is in the process of installing new acrylic barriers at security checkpoints throughout Newark Liberty International Airport as part of the agency’s ongoing efforts to implement initiatives to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Rafael Velez-Lopez, 24, and Emanuel Campbell Camacho, 29, of Vieques, PR, appeared today before Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller for preliminary and detention hearings after being taken into custody by Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) at the Windward Passage Hotel last Friday. Velez-Lopez...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Holyoke man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Springfield for distributing heroin.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Rep. Jamie Raskin, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, sent letters to eight police departments and sheriffs’ offices across the country seeking information about their efforts over the past year to address allegations that multiple law enforcement officers kept social media accounts that expressed violent, racist, or white supremacist views.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, Sept. 29, 2020 – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced today that low-income California residents dealing with the ongoing wildfires could be eligible for a helping hand from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (D-SNAP).
By USDA Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: ReConnect Funding to Connect 100 Rural Households to High-speed Internet e-Connectivity RAPID CITY, S.D., Sept. 29, 2020 – The Trump Administration today announced that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $1.7 million to provide broadband service in unserved and underserved rural areas in southwestern South Dakota and eastern Wyoming. This investment is part of the $550 million Congress allocated to the second round of the ReConnect Program.
