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Last week, 50 members of the U.S. House--all Republicans--wrote U.S. Attorney General William Barr, calling on the U.S. Department of Justice “to investigate individuals and groups responsible for funding, organizing, inciting, and participating in the destructive riots taking place in cities across the country.”

On Monday, U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., filed a criminal referral against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for making materially false statements to Congress while under oath during two joint hearings in Congress on April 10th, 2018 and April 11th, 2018.

On May 22, Rubio led 33 of his Senate colleagues and 94 Members of the House of Representatives in requesting that Jovita Carranza, the administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA), conduct a full investigation into how 37 Planned Parenthood affiliates applied for and improperly received a total of $80 million in loans from the PPP.

U.S. Reps. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., and Greg Steube, R-Fla., paired up with U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, to write U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Justice calling for information on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) from Da Jiang Innovations (DJI). Steube’s office noted that DJI is a “Chinese company that accounts for nearly 80 percent of drone sales in the United States.”

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody and the three U.S. attorneys teamed up on Thursday to warn Floridians about scams related to the COVID-19 outbreak.

On Tuesday, Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody announced more than $2 million in recoveries and savings for Florida seniors at the U.S. Department of Justice Summit on Fighting for Elder Justice.

Scott wants the agencies to look into the services to be performed and the source of the money paid to Amsterdam & Partners to determine if it violates the sanctions imposed against the Maduro regime and whether there is any effort to circumvent FARA regulations. 

This week, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, urged U.S. Attorney General William Barr to vigilantly identify and enforce the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in light of the “Phase One” trade agreement that allows American financial companies to increase their involvement in China’s capital markets in new and hazardous ways.

On December 6, 2019, Ahmed Mohammed al-Shamrani, a Saudi Arabian national here in the United States on an A-2 visa for military training, killed three people and injured eight at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida.

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., urged U.S. Attorney General William Barr to conduct a thorough review of all Bureau of Prisons (BOP) inmate and staff protocols, processes, reporting systems, and employee reviews after reports of allegations regarding systemic and pervasive sexual abuse of inmates by BOP corrections officers at Coleman Federal Correctional Complex (FCC Coleman) in Central Florida.

Florida Democrat U.S. Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Lois Frankel, Ted Deutch and Debbie Mucarsel-Powell joined U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., and U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Mary., in writing Barr on the matter. 

Officials across the Sunshine State reacted to Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide this past weekend.