News from September 2020
By DOE Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a fully remote hearing on Wednesday, Sept. 30, at 11:30 a.m. (EDT) on the search for a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine the public can trust. The hearing is entitled, “Pathway to a Vaccine: Ensuring a Safe and Effective Vaccine People Will Trust."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - United States Attorney J. Douglas Overbey of the Eastern District of Tennessee announced today that $749,718 was awarded to WillowBend Farms, Inc. of Cleveland, Tennessee, in Department of Justice grant funding to combat human trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Earlier today, BRIAN LEE FOSTER, 51, of Norman, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 12 months and 1 day in federal prison for not filing his federal income tax returns for calendar years 2012 and 2013, and ordered to pay over $1 Million in restitution to the Internal revenue Service (IRS), announced Timothy J. Downing, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS, MO - U.S. District Judge Henry E. Autrey sentenced Darrise Ball to 96 months in federal prison. The 33-year-old St. Louis resident pleaded guilty today to being a felon in possession of a firearm, possession with intent to distribute cocaine and fentanyl, and being in possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House today passed, on a 359 to 57 vote, a bipartisan continuing resolution to extend federal government funding through December 11 and avoid a government shutdown at the end of the month.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Robert L. Hayes, Sr., age 74, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Sept. 21, 2020 to 10 years’ imprisonment followed by 15 years of supervised release by Chief U.S. District Court Judge John E. Jones III, on child exploitation charges.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Today, Democratic members of the House Committee on Ways and Means held an organizational meeting and selected Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ) to serve as Chairman of the Oversight Subcommittee for the remainder of the 116th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - CRYSTAL LEANN RODRIGUEZ, 28, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has been sentenced to 300 months in prison for possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute, as well as possessing firearms in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: Projects Will Improve Rural Water Infrastructure for 267,000 Rural Residents and Businesses WASHINGTON, Sept. 22, 2020 – The Trump Administration today announced that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $268 million to modernize rural drinking water and wastewater infrastructure across 28 states.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: Today, the Department of Justice, through the Joint Criminal Opioid and Darknet Enforcement (JCODE) team joined Europol to announce the results of Operation DisrupTor, a coordinated international effort to disrupt opioid trafficking on the Darknet. The operation, which was conducted across the United ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: The Justice Department today announced that Target Recovery Towing Inc. (Target) has agreed to enter into a court-enforceable consent order to resolve allegations that it failed to obtain a legally required court order before auctioning off a car belonging to a U.S. Marine Corps sergeant who was deployed ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: The Justice Department today marked the 20th Anniversary of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) by releasing a comprehensive report detailing how RLUIPA has helped preserve the religious liberty rights of thousands of individuals and institutions. RLUIPA, which protects ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: At a press conference in Milwaukee today, Attorney General William P. Barr announced updates on Operation Legend. He was joined by Matthew D. Krueger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, who announced charges against 26 defendants who allegedly operated a violent drug trafficking organization ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: Sargeant Marine Inc., an asphalt company formerly based in Boca Raton, Florida, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to violate the anti-bribery provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and agreed to pay a criminal fine of $16.6 million to resolve charges stemming from a scheme to pay bribes ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of New York returned an indictment today against a trader at the U.S. subsidiary of a multinational oil distributor and trading company (Trading Company), for his alleged participation in a five-year international bribery and money laundering scheme involving ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: Department of Justice Spokesperson Kerri Kupec has issued the following statement: “Today, William Emmett LeCroy Jr., 50, was executed at U.S. Penitentiary Terre Haute in accordance with the capital sentence recommended by a federal jury and imposed by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia in 2004. LeCroy was pronounced dead at 9:06 p.m. EDT.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: A Texas woman was sentenced to 18 months in prison today for her role in a $5.5 million scheme to overbill the U.S. Department of Labor Office of Workers’ Compensation Program for physical therapy and other services.
By Commerce News Now | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: It’s an honor to be with you virtually for the 38th annual American-Turkish Conference. And I am pleased to welcome to Minister Pekcan, to our discussion today. I thank you for your hospitality during my visit to Istanbul last year.
By Commerce News Now | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: Thank you, Charles, for that kind introduction and for your leadership with the NTIA team organizing the third Spectrum Policy Symposium. And a warm welcome to everyone joining us virtually today. My thanks also to Dr. Kelvin K. Droegemeier, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information Adam Candeub, who will be sharing their expertise later in the program.
By Labor Gazette | Sep 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a proposed rule clarifying the definition of employee under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) as it relates to independent contractors.
