News from December 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2020
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr. announced today that Kevin B. Marsh, former SCANA Corporation (SCANA) Chief Executive Officer and former Chairman of its Board of Directors, is scheduled to plead guilty on Tuesday, December 29 in federal court to conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud. The hearing is scheduled for 10:00 a.m. at the Matthew J. Perry Federal Courthouse, 901 Richland Street, Columbia, before the Honorable Mary G. Lewis.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 23, 2020
News Release: Hawaii National Park, HAWAI‘I - Light winds on Wednesday carried with them a reminder that volcanic air pollution, or vog, is one of the serious hazards associated with the recent summit eruption of Kīlauea volcano.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2020
News Release: Coeur d’Alene, ID - On Wednesday evening, the U.S. Marshals fugitive task force arrested the North Idaho murder suspect out-of-state. The U.S. Marshals task force in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho and Spokane, Washington swiftly located and arrested Neal Mouser, 59, in Washington.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Troy L. McCullough, a/k/a Trey, 48, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa to Hobbs Act robbery and brandishing and carrying a firearm during a crime of violence. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of seven years in prison and a maximum of life.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - More than 20 members and associates of Springfield street gangs and others have been indicted on federal and state drug trafficking and related charges within the past week. The charges allege the individuals have engaged in various capacities to distribute drugs, including cocaine, crack cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and fentanyl in Springfield in 2019 and 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2020
News Release: A man who used a phone to set up a drug sale and then sold marijuana and two firearms to an individual working with the police in Dubuque, Iowa, was sentenced on Dec. 22, 2020, to more than three years in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 23, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.9 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to BioSTL, St. Louis, Missouri, to create the Center for National Pandemic Resilience in Biosciences. The EDA grant, to be matched with $741,030 in local investment, is expected to create 125 jobs, and spur $20 million in private investment.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2020
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina --- U.S. Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr. announced today that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of South Carolina collected over $56 million in criminal, civil and asset forfeiture actions in Fiscal Year (FY) 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2020
News Release: Earlier today, Attorney General William P. Barr announced the results of Operation Legend, which was first launched in Kansas City, Missouri, on July 8, 2020, and then expanded to Chicago and Albuquerque, New Mexico, on July 22, 2020; to Cleveland, Ohio, Detroit, Michigan, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 29, 2020; to St. Louis, Missouri, and Memphis, Tennessee, on August 6, 2020; and to Indianapolis, Indiana, on Aug. 14, 2020.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 23, 2020
Release: Need a last minute holiday gift? Give the joy of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) PreCheck® program to your favorite traveler…. and to yourself!
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The DEA announced today that ten defendants have been indicted for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute heroin and methamphetamine in the Eastern District of Oklahoma and elsewhere. Drug Conspiracy is punishable by not less than 10 years...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 23, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today released new data from the third phase of the Small Business Pulse Survey. Data collection began November 9, 2020. Results will be released weekly starting Nov. 19, 2020, through Jan. 14, 2021. No changes were made to the questionnaire for this phase.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 23, 2020
News Release: Washington - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is pressing the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and its respective watchdog agency about the suspension of a security clearance and eventual departure of Dr. Mark Moyar from his position at USAID based on still ambiguous claims of publishing classified information in a book he published in 2017. Moyar voluntarily resigned from his position in July 2019.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 23, 2020
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reached a decision and order without reason of default against Michael J. Rogers (Rogers) of Beaver Dams, New York for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 23, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) today announced an extension of the flexibilities in rules related to Form I-9 compliance that was granted earlier this year. Due to the continued precautions related to COVID-19, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will extend this policy until Jan. 31, 2021.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 23, 2020
News Release: CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Today, the Bureau of Land Management issued a decision that could generate billions of dollars for the American public and will strengthen domestic energy production and independence. The Record of Decision for the Converse County Oil and Gas Project allows the development of up to 5,000 new oil and natural gas wells within a 1.5 million-acre project area in Converse County, Wyoming, over the life of the project.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 23, 2020
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reached a consent decision and order against 7 S Packing, LLC, dba Texas Packing Company (7 S Packing), San Angelo, Texas, on Dec. 2, 2020, for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2020
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - On Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020, United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey sentenced Scott Michael McAllister, age 37, of Burlington, to 230 months in prison for distribution of methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Following his prison term McAllister was ordered to serve five years of supervised release, as well as pay $200 to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ga. - A member of the Aryan Brotherhood pleaded guilty to possession of a stolen gun as part of an investigation into gang activity in the Columbus community, said Peter D. Leary, the Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
