News from September 2020
By DOE Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) released the following joint statement today calling on Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert R. Redfield, M.D. to brief members of the Committee on a series of announcements affecting the nation’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: -The U.S. Census Bureau in January began releasing industry data from the 2017 Economic Census for all sectors by state, metropolitan area, county and place. We released final data for the Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction (NAICS 21), Manufacturing (NAICS 31-33), and Construction (NAICS 23) sectors on Aug. 20, officially wrapping up the Geographic Area Statistics.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - Last week, UCXtra Umbrella, LLC, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Michael T. Liburdi and ordered to pay $12,500,000 in restitution. UCXtra Umbrella, LLC, had previously pleaded guilty to health care fraud and engaging in monetary transactions derived from unlawful activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Guatemalan man was sentenced today to 21 months in prison for illegal reentry of an immigrant after a felony conviction.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA-Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) called on the leaders of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, the American College of Cardiology, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American Heart Association, the American...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: FBI New Orleans Warns About Hurricane-Related Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced today that Michael M. Karmo (40) and Cody E. Smith (33) of Missouri have been charged by criminal complaint with illegal possession of firearms after being arrested on Sept. 1, 2020, at a hotel in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated Ponce County, Puerto Rico, as a primary natural disaster area. Producers 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 3, 2020
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A North Carolina man was sentenced today to five years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), applauded the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) final rule to grant the state of Wyoming “primacy" to issue permits for carbon sequestration wells for purposes beyond oil production, known as Class VI wells.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: EUGENE, Ore.-A Bend, Oregon man has pleaded guilty to distributing child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: Indictment Alleges Contract Bid-Rigging Scheme, Kickbacks and Money Laundering.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: Luray, Virginia: On Sept. 2, 2020 at 11:14 a.m., the Shenandoah National Park Communications Center received a report that the wreckage of a plane crash had been found approximately 0.75 mile down the Buck Hollow Trail from Skyline Drive in the Central District of Shenandoah National Park. The body of an adult male was found in the wreckage. The plane that crashed was a Piper PA-20 airplane.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza today sentenced Edgar Johan Diaz-Colon (34, Zephyrhills) to 150 years in federal prison for sexually exploiting children. Diaz-Colon had pleaded guilty on April 22, 2020.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL) wrote to Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Dan Brouillette today demanding answers for DOE’s delay in implementing the survey and other procedures that serve as the basis for the upcoming 2021...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, MO-The FBI is asking for the public’s assistance to identify potential victims of Jeffrey Pierce. Pierce, a high school basketball coach at Seaman High School in Topeka, Kansas, has been charged with sexually exploiting minors. Using social networking platforms, Pierce would contact his...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Trenton man was sentenced today to 160 months in prison for his role in a large drug trafficking conspiracy that distributed more than one kilogram of heroin in Trenton and the surrounding area, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: Faces Pierce County charges for molesting young child.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: On July 8, 2020, United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald announced the formation of a new Twin Cities Violent Crime Task Force (Task Force) in response to an extraordinary spike in gun violence and violent crime across the Twin Cities. The Task Force brought together Minnesota-based federal, state...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Nine men have been charged in a 13-count indictment for their roles in a wide-ranging bank fraud and identity theft scheme that affected hundreds of victims, including in Onondaga and Albany Counties.
