News from December 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Administrator Timothy Shea arrived in Panama this week on an official visit, marking the first time a DEA Administrator visited Panama, a hub for regional DEA operations.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, 22 Ways and Means Democrats, led by Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Chairman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), raised concerns to U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Robert E. Lighthizer regarding the Trump Administration’s hasty trade negotiations...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: During U.S. Attorney Peeler’s tenure, the Office grew to its highest number of AUSAs and prosecuted more criminal defendants in the District’s history.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: Glen Jean, WV - Friends of New River Gorge National River had a productive year in 2020 with plans underway for more in 2021. New members are being recruited to assist in their efforts.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Michael Masecchia, 54, of Williamsville, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra, Jr. to possession with intent to distribute marijuana, and possession of firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking crimes. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of life, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Ryan Orts, age 31, of Utica, New York, appeared today in federal court on an indictment charging him with distributing ecstasy (MDMA), methamphetamine, and Xanax, announced Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon and Kevin Kelly, Special Agent in Charge of the Buffalo Field Office of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
By State Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today delivered the following opening remarks at a full committee hearing on Syria...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
Release: TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - Residents of the Traverse City area will be able to enroll in the Transportation Security Administration’s TSA PreCheck® application program inside Cherry Capital Airport (TVC) from Monday, Dec. 14 through Friday, Dec. 18.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - In response to an announcement today that the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative will begin consultations on the enforcement of Canada's tariff rate quota (TRQ) allocations for imported dairy products, House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson of Minnesota and Livestock and Foreign Agriculture Subcommittee Chairman Jim Costa of California welcomed the news in a statement...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on five produce businesses for failing to meet contractual obligations to the sellers of produce they purchased and failing to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA). These sanctions...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: Millen, GA - On Tuesday, December 8, 2020, U.S. Marshals from the Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force (SERFTF) were involved in a shooting incident in Millen, Georgia. The Jenkins County Sheriff’s Office, Millen Police Department, and the U.S. Marshals SERFTF were searching for Larry Jackson, age...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man today admitted possessing a handgun in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: Each year between spring and fall, the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Legacy Management (LM) participates in eight to 10 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) events on the Navajo Nation. LM staff and LM Strategic Partner (LMSP) contractors travel to various communities on the...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: Today, a federal jury returned guilty verdicts against MICHAEL HARI, 49, for his role in the bombing of the Dar al-Farooq (“DAF") Islamic Center in Bloomington, Minnesota, on August 5, 2017. The announcement was made by United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota Erica H. MacDonald, Assistant ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Juan Elvis Monsanto, age 60, of Hazleton, a citizen of the Dominican Republic, was sentenced on December 8, 2020, to 65 months’ imprisonment by U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani, for trafficking in cocaine and more than 50 grams of methamphetamine.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Rep. Alan S. Lowenthal (D-Calif.), Chair of the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, today released a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report showing that the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) practice of noncompetitive oil and gas leasing allows companies to lock up millions of acres of public lands for decades while U.S. taxpayers receive pennies in return.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Trent Shores today announced the results of the December 2020 Federal Grand Jury A.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: Hawaii National Park, HAWAI‘I - Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park will waive its entrance fee on six days in 2021. The fee-free days support the park’s commitment to increase access, promote recreational opportunities, improve visitor facilities and conserve natural and historical treasures for the benefit and enjoyment of all.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, December 9, 2020-The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agriculture Research Service (ARS) today announced a groundbreaking treatment that prevents anemia, weight loss, poor wool and meat production, and even death in sheep.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, Susan A. Gibson, and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Craig Carpenito, announced a New York doctor today admitted distributing opioids without a legitimate medical reason and soliciting sexual favors from patients in exchange for opioid prescriptions.
