News from December 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: Justice Department Settles Lawsuit Against Owners and Mangers of Housing Properties in Honolulu, Hawaii for Discriminating Against Families with Children.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau released the total number of 2020 Census paid temporary workers that earned any pay Nov. 15 - Nov. 21, 2020. The data tables include national totals for all 50 states and the District of Columbia by Census Bureau regional geography. A weekly number of paid temporary workers for Puerto Rico is also available. The weekly release will occur 10 days after the end of the weekly period.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: This morning the National Park Service (NPS) released the final Visitor Use Management Plan (VUM Plan) for Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area and Middle Delaware National Scenic and Recreational River. The VUM Plan is the culmination of a 5-year planning effort that began in summer 2015 and...
By State Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
Release: United States Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL). Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): DRL FY2020: Promoting the Rights and Reintegration of Young Moroccans During and After Detention. This is the announcement of funding opportunity number SFOP0007443. Catalog of Federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A copper-processing company headquartered in Leetsdale, Pennsylvania, was charged in federal court with three counts under the Clean Water Act related to unlawful discharges into the Ohio River over a five-year period, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today. The guilty plea and sentencing hearing has been scheduled for Dec. 15, 2020, at 10:30 a.m., before United States District Judge William S. Stickman, IV.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
Release: Washington - In July 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) sought public comment on a petition from a vaccine manufacturer seeking approval to produce foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) vaccine consisting of a modified non-infectious and non-transmissible ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: WILMINGTON - A Greenville man was sentenced today to 40 months in prison for possessing a firearm by a convicted felon.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, joined Congressman Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Congressman Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ), Chair of the House Natural ...
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, echoed a new letter sent by Ford Motor Company and encouraged all automakers to follow the lead of Ford, Honda, Volkswagen, BMW, and Volvo and drop litigation against states' ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Steven Merryday has sentenced Tom Wynne (65, Pinellas Park) to 33 months in federal prison, followed by 36 months of supervised release, for one count of conspiracy to commit tax evasion, one count of tax evasion, and seven counts of money laundering. The court also...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) reported screening more than 1 million airline passengers on four individual days during the Thanksgiving holiday travel period, which began Friday, November 20 and ended Sunday, November 29.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: Today, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), House Education and Labor Committee Chairman Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (D-VA), Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: DENVER - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) filed an immigration detainer on a Mexican national facing charges of first-degree murder in Arapahoe County, Colorado, Nov. 24.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard has sentenced Larry Bouknight (34, Jacksonville) to 20 years in federal prison for distributing a controlled substance that resulted in death.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - The United States Secret Service (Secret Service) has received multiple reports that individuals falsely claiming to be customer service representatives of local cell phone providers are calling members of the public as part of a scam to receive personal and financial information, announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - James Gray, of Moundsville, West Virginia, is facing a firearms charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: WILMINGTON, N.C. - A Wilmington, NC man was sentenced today to a total of 288 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute a quantity of heroin, a quantity of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine, a quantity of fentanyl and 28...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - The United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, W. Stephen Muldrow, and the Elder Justice Task Force (EJTF) announced today the launch of an elder fraud education and prevention campaign during the COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
Release: Advances President Trump’s strategy to ensure reliable supplies of domestic critical minerals
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - A federal judge sentenced Kuo Pin (“Kenny") Cheng for illegally smuggling protected turtles from Asia, including at least two endangered species, in violation of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species Treaty (“CITES"), the Lacey Act, and the Endangered Species Act.
