News from December 2020
By DOE Gazette | Dec 22, 2020
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Dec. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Dec 22, 2020
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Dec. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 22, 2020
The US Transportation Department published a two page rule on Dec. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Dec 22, 2020
The US Commerce Department published a one page rule on Dec. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOT News Wire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON— The U.S. Department of Transportation today announced the appointment of two new members and the reappointment of five current members to the Federal Aviation Administration's 13-member Management Advisory Council (MAC). The MAC advises the FAA's senior management on policy, spending, long-range planning, and regulatory matters.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, joined Ranking Member Jody Hice in releasing the Subcommittee’s 11th biannual scorecard, assessing implementation of the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA). FITARA...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine was sentenced on Dec. 21, 2020, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.

By USDA Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on two produce businesses for failing to meet contractual obligations to the sellers of produce they purchased and failing to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA). These sanctions...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 22, 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 Homeland Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) launched a billboard campaign today in Asheville, North Carolina, to alert the public of at-large immigration violators who may pose a public safety threat to the community. Several of the individuals were previously arrested or convicted of crimes in the U.S., but were released into the community instead of being transferred into ICE custody pursuant to an immigration detainer.

By Commerce Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today released July 1, 2020 estimates of the total population and voting-age population for the nation and states. Additional estimates for metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas, counties, cities, towns, and Puerto Rico and its municipios, as well as estimates of housing...

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: Complaint Alleges Company Unlawfully Dispensed and Distributed Prescription Opioids.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: A man who participated in a Waterloo, Iowa, home invasion was sentenced today to more than 10 years in federal prison.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Chester Hammond, age 44, of Manlius, New York, was arrested yesterday and charged with distributing child pornography, announced Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon, Thomas F. Relford, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and New York State Police Superintendent Keith Corlett.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - United States Attorney John C. Anderson, 45, of Santa Fe, New Mexico, has announced his resignation effective 11:59 pm on Jan. 2, 2021. After his resignation, he plans to join a private law firm in the Santa Fe area.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - John Burton was sentenced to 10 years and 10 months (130 months) in prison for committing fentanyl, heroin, and crack cocaine-trafficking and firearm crimes while on supervised release following a prior federal conviction for heroin trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: MIAMI - DOE and Florida International University (FIU) officials recently introduced the EM Fellows Class of 2020 - 15 science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) students inducted into a program intended to shape future candidates for the cleanup workforce.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: POCATELLO - Andrew Welch, 46, of Idaho Falls, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to five years in federal prison for concealment of assets, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today. Chief U.S. District Judge David C. Nye also ordered Welch to pay a $25,000 fine, and to serve one year of supervised release following his prison sentence. Welch pleaded guilty to the charge on July 29, 2020. As part of the plea agreement, Welch also agreed to forfeit $25,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: Dr. DAVID RAY CESKO, 66, of Rawlins, Wyoming was sentenced on December 21st in U.S. District Court by Chief Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl following a guilty plea to multiple charges that, as a physician, Cesko unlawfully distributed controlled substances, primarily opiates and benzodiazepines...

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: Justice Department Alleges Conditions at Lowell Correctional Institution Violate the Constitution.