News from December 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that TYRONE WOOLASTON was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alison J. Nathan to 180 months in prison for his participation in a multi-year scheme to smuggle cocaine into the United States through Newark...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted an emergency use authorization for Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after President-elect Joe Biden formally introduced Katherine Tai as his nominee to serve as the next U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Pasadena man is scheduled to be arraigned today on federal charges alleging he used stolen identities to fraudulently obtain unemployment insurance benefits, which he later used to purchase a Maserati luxury SUV.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Federal law enforcement leaders in the Commonwealth of Virginia today announced the launch of www.storiesoverstigma.com to fight back against the silent health epidemic of substance use disorder.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An Alexandria woman pleaded guilty today to money laundering in connection with a scheme to defraud members of a Christian organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: Had Prior Felony Convictions for Burglary and Eluding.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - United States Attorney Lawrence Keefe today announced the indictment of two people in a far-reaching conspiracy scheme to allegedly steal, defraud, and profiteer by cheating the state's educator testing, certification, and licensing process. The indictment says the couple and employees of their private company repeatedly took state-required exams in order to memorize the questions so they could then profit by selling them to prospective educators.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: ORLANDO, Fla. - A federal jury found Jerimiah Swanson (22, Cocoa) guilty of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute more than 40 grams of fentanyl. Swanson faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 5 years, and up to 40 years, in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for March 9, 2021. Swanson had been indicted on March 18, 2020.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader for the 116th Congress Greg Walden (R-OR), Republican Leader for the 117th Congress Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., today announced the U.S. Grain Standards Reauthorization Act of 2020 was signed into law by President Trump.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A New York man who formerly resided in Newport News was sentenced today to three years in prison for a mail fraud and identity theft scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Federal law enforcement leaders in the Commonwealth of Virginia today announced the launch of www.storiesoverstigma.com to fight back against the silent health epidemic of substance use disorder.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Two Bureau of Land Management (BLM) employees received a national award for their work in the fire program.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A former federal inmate has admitted to helping destroy evidence in the murder of the wife of a Fort Stewart soldier.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow released the following statement regarding the passing of The Honorable Juan M. Pérez-Giménez, United States Court, District of Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: MACON, Ga. - A convicted felon was sentenced to serve more than 16 years in a federal prison today, the result of a lengthy investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) and the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office into illegal firearms trafficking in the Macon area, said Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky. - A Montgomery County, Ky., man, Scotty Allen Jones, 48, was sentenced on Thursday to 268 months in federal prison, by U.S. District Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove, for distributing a fentanyl and heroin mixture, possessing acetylfentanyl with intent to distribute, possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, and being a felon in possession of firearms.
By State Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: Dear Mr. President: On September 8, we wrote to you to express our deep concern over the Aug. 20, 2020 poisoning of leading Russian political activist Alexey Navalny with a Novichok chemical nerve agent. In that letter, we formally requested that the executive branch investigate whether Russia has...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A 21-year-old resident of Houston has been ordered to prison following his conviction for attempting to import approximately 60.88 kilograms of meth, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
