News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman announced that a federal grand jury sitting in Cleveland has returned an eleven-count indictment charging Derrick Lamont Jones, 56, and Kelly Marie Thomas, 50, both of Toledo, with conspiracy to transport stolen vehicles, possession of stolen vehicles, operating a chop shop, violation Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) regulations and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the unsealing of a Complaint in Manhattan federal court charging...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2020
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury today has indicted Charles Couser, age 27, of Baltimore, Maryland, on the federal charges of carjacking, using and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence, possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and for being a felon in possession of a firearm and/or ammunition.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 14, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last week, Deputy Secretary of Energy Mark W. Menezes travelled to the Midwest region where he visited Ames National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, and Southeast Wisconsin.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 14, 2020
News Release: Today, House Committee on Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr., House Committee on Oversight and Reform Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney, and Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Ranking Member Patty Murray sent a letter urging Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 14, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated Clark County, Nevada, as a primary natural disaster area. Producers who suffered losses caused by recent drought may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 14, 2020
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that The Chop Shop Produce Co. LLC satisfied a reparation order in the amount of $7,111 issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) involving an unpaid produce transaction.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 14, 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) wrote to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 14, 2020
News Release: Honolulu, HI - The National Park Service is preparing a Categorical Exclusion (CE) for a project to replace the shoreside floating dock and anchoring system at the Pearl Harbor National Memorial Visitor Center. Years of wave action, marine exposure and geological processes have deteriorated the existing...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 14, 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) wrote to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 14, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, called on Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Alex Azar to fire Michael A. Caputo, a political appointee at the HHS who led efforts to revise scientific publications at CDC to suit President Trump’s messaging, and promoted conspiracy theories about career scientists at the CDC.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 14, 2020
News Release: SANTA FE, New Mexico - As part of the Trump Administration’s commitments to being a good neighbor and responsibly developing our natural resources, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) New Mexico is announcing a public comment period on the environmental analysis for its Jan. 14, 2021 oil and gas lease...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 14, 2020
News Release: Today, House Committee on Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr., House Committee on Oversight and Reform Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney, and Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Ranking Member Patty Murray sent a letter urging Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 14, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated four Texas counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Crosby, Dickens, Lubbock and Terrell counties who suffered losses due to recent drought, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2020
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa-On Sept. 11, 2020, United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey sentenced Hunter Morgan Uhde, age 24, of Thornton, Iowa, to 160 months in prison for Receiving and Distributing Child Pornography, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Uhde was ordered to serve...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 14, 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) wrote to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Robert Lee Pauley, Jr., of Mount Storm, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 360 months incarceration for methamphetamine distribution, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2020
News Release: “We are saddened by the passing of Chief Justice Gants. He was an outstanding jurist and a good man. He will be missed.".
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of 2 counts of Wire Fraud and 1 count of Theft of Government Property was sentenced by Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2020
News Release: San Juan, PR - U.S. Marshal Pete Elliott, Cuyahoga County Sheriff, David Shilling, Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams and Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O’Malley announce the arrest of Julio Rentas, 67, who has been on the run since the 1980s.
