News from December 2020
By EPA Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Energy Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Upton (R-MI), and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL) released the following statement on the Department of Energy (DOE)’s notice on guidance for applications for loan proposals on critical mineral projects.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: In Waco today, a federal judge sentenced 33-year-old Temple, Texas resident Lydia Brynn Christensen to 188 months in federal prison for possessing and distributing images and videos depicting the sexual exploitation of children including those of a female child under the age of two, announced U.S. Attorney Gregg N. Sofer; FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division; and Temple Police Chief Shawn Reynolds.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a business meeting to consider substitute amendment to S. 4897, American Nuclear Infrastructure Act of 2020, and 8 General Services Administration Resolutions. Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Three members of a Gardena street gang that operates in several states under the control of the Mexican Mafia, have been charged in federal court with violent crime in aid of racketeering for allegedly participating in a shooting that resulted in the death of a 29-year-old man who was gunned down in front of his home.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On Nov. 30, 2020, Jairo Cruz-Rico, 37, a Citizen of Mexico, was sentenced to 210 months (17.5 years) in a federal prison by Senior United States District Court Judge Thomas W. Phillips. Cruz-Rico was a supplier of methamphetamine for a drug conspiracy that distributed hundreds...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Parmelee, South Dakota, man convicted of Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer was sentenced on Nov. 30, 2020, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Energy Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Upton (R-MI), and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL) released the following statement on the Department of Energy (DOE)’s notice on guidance for applications for loan proposals on critical mineral projects.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Carl W. Hoecker, the Inspector General of the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC-OIG"), announced today the unsealing of an Indictment in Manhattan federal court...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson of Minnesota welcomed passage Wednesday of S.4054, the Grain Standards Reauthorization Act of 2020 in a statement on the House floor...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: The management of Denali National Park and Preserve has determined that there is adequate snow cover for the use of snowmobiles for traditional activities in areas of the 1980 park additions that are south of the crest of the Alaska Range from the southwest preserve to the North Fork of the Eldridge Glacier.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - In his last hearing as Chairman of the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee, Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., today held a hearing titled, “Agricultural Research and Securing the United States Food Supply."
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement to recognize the 50th Anniversary of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2020
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - An El Salvadorian national previously convicted of sexual battery, extortion, and larceny charges pleaded guilty today to illegally reentering the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 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 Homeland Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
Release: MOLINE, Ill. - A state-of-the-art advanced technology computed tomography checkpoint scanner (CT) that provide 3-D imaging has been installed and is in use at the Transportation Security Administration checkpoint at Quad City International Airport (MLI).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - Derrick Devon King, age 33, was sentenced yesterday to 120 months in prison for Conspiring to Commit Bank Fraud and Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement after the Senate unanimously confirmed Mark Christie and Allison Clements to be Members of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Triangle man was sentenced today to 90 months in prison for distributing heroin to a woman who fatally overdosed four days after she got out of substance abuse treatment.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The captain of the P/V Conception, a Santa Barbara-based dive boat that caught fire last year near Santa Cruz Island, resulting in the deaths of 33 passengers and one crew member, was indicted today by a federal grand jury on 34 counts of seaman’s manslaughter.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has filed a lawsuit alleging that the Housing Authority of Ashland, Alabama, which manages seven federally funded low-income housing complexes, violated the Fair Housing Act by intentionally discriminating on the basis of race or color against applicants for housing.
