News from December 2020
By USDA Newswire | Dec 3, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated Rutland County, Vermont, as a primary natural disaster area. Producers who suffered losses caused by a drought that has occurred since June 1, 2020, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Mercer County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2020
News Release: Jackson, TN - Justin Tyler Bynum, 32, of South Fulton, Tennessee, has been sentenced to 100 months in federal prison for conspiring with others to possess with the intent to distribute over 500 grams of methamphetamine. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2020
News Release: Department of Justice and Partner Agencies Stop the Flow of Fraud Proceeds.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 3, 2020
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - The National Park Service (NPS) has selected Rhonda Loh to serve as the permanent superintendent of Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park starting on Dec. 20, 2020. Loh has been the acting park superintendent since April 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, and six other federal law enforcement agencies announced the completion of the third annual Money Mule Initiative, a coordinated operation to disrupt the networks through which transnational fraudsters move the...
By State Newswire | Dec 3, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX), Republican Leader on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement on Representative Gregory Meeks (D-NY) being elected as Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee for the 117th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Justin Antoine, a/k/a Justo, age 24, of Baltimore, Maryland, a member of a drug trafficking organization operating in Southwest Baltimore, pleaded guilty today to the federal charges of conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine and to discharging a firearm resulting in death during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime. In addition to the murder, Antoine admitted to being part of a shoot-out where a bystander was shot.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Mercer County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2020
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Former Meridian Police Officer Royric “Roy" Benamon, 27, pled guilty yesterday before Chief U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III to one count of federal extortion under color of right, announced United States Attorney Mike Hurst and Michelle A. Sutphin, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2020
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - El Servicio Secreto de los Estados Unidos (Servicio Secreto) ha recibido varias denuncias sobre individuos que se hacen pasar por representantes de servicio al cliente de compañías locales de celulares. Estos individuos están llamando al público como parte de un esquema de fraude para...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2020
News Release: First Ever Parallel Foreign Bribery Enforcement Action with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 3, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - After being selected to return as Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure for the 117th Congress, Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR) issued the following statement...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 3, 2020
News Release: SAN DIEGO - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents worked with other federal agents to bring down three Mexican nationals suspected of trafficking huge quantities of illicit drugs for the Sinaloa Cartel. They were charged in federal court Nov. 24 in connection with what is believed to...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Monmouth County, New Jersey, man today admitted being a felon in possession of a firearm and unlawfully possessing a machinegun, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2020
News Release: Predator targeted two Columbus minors on Snapchat.
By State Newswire | Dec 3, 2020
Release: More information about Madagascar is available on the Madagascar Page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 3, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, today released over 400 pages of documents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Department of...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - A convicted felon has been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison for illegally possessing a loaded handgun in the West Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 3, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) is partnering with the North American Electric Reliability Corporation's Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center (E-ISAC) to pilot enhancements to the energy sector’s information sharing capabilities and rapidly identify security threats to utilities across the nation.
