News from December 2020
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 7, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON - If you’re planning to travel by air during the holiday season, here are some steps that you can take right now to help ensure that you avoid Santa’s “Naughty" list when you get to a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) security checkpoint at the airport.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2020
News Release: SAIPAN, MP - SHAWN N. ANDERSON, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendants VINCE KOKI LEON GUERRERO, age 28, and EVELYN CHON TYDINGCO, age 28, were each sentenced in the United States District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands to...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - United States Attorney David M. DeVillers announced today the Fentanyl in Narcotic Drugs Awareness Project (FIND Awareness Project ), a messaging campaign aimed at warning the public that any drug cut with fentanyl is deadly.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Ralph Sozio, the United States Marshal for the Southern District of New York, and Dermot Shea, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), announced today the filing of a Complaint in Manhattan...
By State Newswire | Dec 7, 2020
Release: Department of State. Public Notice. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Request for Statements of Interest: DRL FY20 Burma - Investigating and Documenting Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Burma. I. Requested Objectives for Statements of Interest. The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 7, 2020
News Release: Today, Republican Leaders of the Committee on Education and Labor, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Rep. Ben Cline (R-VA), issued the following statement applauding the Department of Labor’s (DOL) final rule to protect religious liberty for federal contractors...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 7, 2020
News Release: Park managers at Fort Scott National Historic Site, in coordination with Fire Managers with the US Fish and Wildlife Service from Marais des Cygnes National Wildlife Refuge, plan to burn the five acre restored prairie Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020. The ignition will depend upon weather conditions and the burn may be postponed or canceled if conditions are unfavorable.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after President-elect Biden nominated Xavier Becerra to serve as the next Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS)...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that Leonard Theodore Kern, 64, of Plano, Texas, entered a guilty plea to obstruction of justice for his role in an investment scheme that resulted in the loss of over $375,000 to a West Virginia woman.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2020
News Release: A project manager employed by a major retailer was sentenced to 24 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for fraudulently seeking more than $8 million in forgivable loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2020
News Release: Former coach allegedly accepted at least $1.5 million to facilitate the admission of businessman’s two sons to Harvard as fencing recruits.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2020
News Release: On Dec. 4, 2020, a Tulsa woman admitted in federal court to assaulting her intimate partner during an argument in 2016 and to using force to steal a vehicle in 2019, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced that U.S. District Judge John W. deGravelles sentenced Casondra Reagan, age 44, of Denham Springs, to 15 months in federal prison following her conviction for conspiracy to commit fraud connected to major disaster declaration emergency benefits. The Court further sentenced Reagan to serve three years of supervised release following her term of imprisonment and pay restitution in the amount of $50,000.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 7, 2020
News Release: Washington -The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued a Decision and Order Without Hearing by Reason of Default against Bill Barton, doing business as Barton Cattle Company (Barton) of Bagwell, Texas, on October. 7, 2020, for violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Johnathan Zamudio, age 33, of Muskogee, Oklahoma entered a guilty plea to Murder in the Second Degree in Indian Country, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1111(a), 1151, 1153, punishable by imprisonment for a period of any term of years or life, a fine up to $250,000.00, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2020
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Christopher M.K. Dumas, 29, of Shreveport, Louisiana, was sentenced today by United States District Judge S. Maurice Hicks, Jr. to 81 years in prison followed by 5 years of supervised release for his participation in five armed robberies in Shreveport and one in Marshall, Texas, announced Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 7, 2020
News Release: DETROIT, MI - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Consulate General of Mexico in Detroit have signed a two-year alliance to promote workplace safety and health training and educational opportunities for Consulate and Mexican nationals working in Michigan and Northern Ohio.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 7, 2020
News Release: NPS Announces Reduced Winter Services and Priority Snow Removal Routes.
By State Newswire | Dec 7, 2020
News Release: Dear Minister Momen: We extend our appreciation to the government and people of Bangladesh for hosting nearly a million Rohingya refugees for more than three years. We recognize that both the root of this crisis and its solution lie in Burma, and the Burmese government must do more to enable the safe,...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Reps. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), chair of the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife, and Alan Lowenthal (D-Calif.), chair of the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, wrote to Interior Secretary David Bernhardt today seeking an explanation...
