News from December 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: Daniel Morales Acted as Middleman in Sales of Automatic Weapons, Short-Barreled Rifles, and “Ghost Guns".
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that three defendants appeared in federal court this week for firearm offenses.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: EL PASO, Texas - More than 100,000 counterfeit 3M N95 surgical masks destined to be used by hospital workers were seized Dec. 7 by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
By State Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: Dear Secretaries Pompeo and Mnuchin: I am writing to express my concern regarding the alarming slide towards authoritarianism in Uganda, a major recipient of U.S. foreign aid and one of the top recipients of U.S. security assistance in Africa. Having been in power for over three decades, President Museveni’s...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: In recent years, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has worked together with U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) to improve situational awareness at our northern border by establishing enterprise capabilities that give agents access to more data sources, decision support tools to translate the data into actionable information and intelligence, and information-sharing resources to enable collaboration with partner law enforcement agencies.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: MOBILE, Ala. - Today, the Justice Department filed suit against the State of Alabama and the Alabama Department of Corrections. The complaint alleges that the conditions at Alabama’s prisons for men violate the Constitution because Alabama fails to provide adequate protection from prisoner-on-prisoner violence and prisoner-on-prisoner sexual abuse, fails to provide safe and sanitary conditions, and subjects prisoners to excessive force at the hands of prison staff.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that RICHARD DIVER was sentenced on December 7 to 36 months in prison in connection with his embezzlement from the asset management company where he served as chief operating officer. DIVER previously pled...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Daniel Morales, 36, of Syracuse pled guilty yesterday to causing the sale of firearms and ammunition to a convicted felon, announced Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon, John B. DeVito, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), and Chief Kenton Buckner, City of Syracuse Police Department.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: CARSON CITY, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Stillwater Field Office is seeking public comments on a Preliminary Environmental Assessment (PEA) for the Desatoya Herd Management Area (HMA) Wild Horse Gather. Public comments will be accepted through January 9, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Chino Valley, Arizona, was sentenced today in federal court for one count of conspiracy to smuggle misbranded drugs into the United States and introduce them into interstate commerce, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - At 8 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 15, Yellowstone National Park will open to the public for travel by snowcoach and snowmobile. Between December 15 and mid-March, visitors can travel the park’s interior roads on commercially guided snowmobiles and snowcoaches from the North, West, East, and South entrances, weather-permitting. Visitors who have proper permits can also take non-commercially guided snowmobile trips.
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: Justice Department Files Lawsuit Against the State of Alabama for Unconstitutional Conditions in State's Prisons for Men.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: Intrusion Resulted in Deletion of 16,000 WebEx Teams Accounts in Fall 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management today announced it has finalized new categorical exclusions under the National Environmental Policy Act, which streamlines the agency’s review of routine timber salvage projects and operations and the review of projects across the West designed to address the rapid spread of pinyon-juniper woodlands on sagebrush habitat.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: Las Vegas Men Responsible for Providing Methamphetamine to Shreveport/Bossier City Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that two individuals pleaded guilty and were sentenced this week in connection with a methamphetamine conspiracy in Wausau, Wisconsin. Chou Xiong, 37, Wausau, pleaded guilty and was sentenced yesterday...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Robert E. Lighthizer announced the first enforcement action under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) against the Government of Canada for trade measures that harm U.S. dairy farmers and producers...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A couple who were charged with running a commercial sex operation in multiple locations in north Texas have been sentenced to federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox today.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today praised USTR’s announcement that it will seek consultation with Canada to address unfair practices harming U.S. dairy farmers...
