News from December 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: Defendant Sold Customers Heroin, Crack Cocaine, and the Fentanyl Analogue that Killed the Victim in this Case.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-In separate criminal cases, two Oregon men are facing federal charges for fraudulently converting to their personal use loans intended to help small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, announced U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), Committee on House Administration Ranking Member Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), and Government Operations Subcommittee Ranking Member Jody Hice (R-Ga.) issued the following statements on the appointment of California Secretary of State Alex Padilla to Kamala Harris’ Senate seat...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: Complaint Alleges Company Unlawfully Dispensed and Distributed Prescription Opioids.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - EM’s spent nuclear fuel program at DOE’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site recently determined that fuel canisters identified as high risk continue to be safely stored in five underground vaults following inspections to characterize the integrity of the fuel packages.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - EM has published its 2020 Year in Review, summarizing the accomplishments of cleanup work across the DOE complex over the course of the year, including numerous major program priorities.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Feather Cheyenne Pacheco, age 24, of Tahlequah, Oklahoma entered a guilty plea to Distribution of Heroin, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(C), punishable by up to 20 years’ imprisonment, a fine up to $1,000,000.00, or both.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: LIVERMORE, Calif. - Workers have begun activities to prepare for the demolition of a nuclear reactor at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), accomplishing one of EM’s 2020 priorities.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Brandon, South Dakota, woman convicted of Wire Fraud was sentenced on Dec. 21, 2020, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By State Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today lauded Congress’s passage of the U.S. - Northern Triangle Enhanced Engagement Act (H.R. 2615) which he authored and which was included in the omnibus appropriations and COVID-19 relief package. The President is expected to sign the legislation into law shortly.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Antonio Rowe, 31, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced on Friday, December 18 by U.S. District Judge William Conley to 100 months in federal prison for three bank robberies. Rowe pleaded guilty to these charges on July 28, 2020.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) announced 10 project selections totaling up to $22 million to support marine energy research and development (R&D) and testing infrastructure. Seven out of the 10 projects selected will leverage the expertise and intellectual capital of non-federal research institutions, like universities, by supporting foundational R&D to complement research at the DOE National Labs.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on passage of the omnibus spending bill which includes coronavirus relief, funding for the Department of Homeland Security, and other homeland security legislation...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: Found with More Than 10 Pounds of 100% Meth.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - EM’s infrastructure support contractor for the Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office’s Paducah Site recently received the Kentucky Excellence in Environmental Leadership Champion Award from the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A former member of the Chapter of the Latin Kings in the Massachusetts Department of Correction pleaded guilty today to racketeering charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A former member of the Connecticut Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (“Latin Kings") leadership body, known as the “Crown Council," was sentenced today for racketeering conspiracy charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - Edward Parks, 60, Liberal, Kan., is charged with one count of submitting false claims for travel reimbursement to the Department of Veterans Affairs and one count of making a false statement to investigators from the Department of Veterans Affairs - Office of Inspector General. The crimes are alleged to have occurred in 2019 in Sedgwick County, Kan.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced that Mary Beth Cummings, 35, of Huntington, pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - While 2020 was an unusual and challenging year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was also one of the most notable and accomplished for DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and its contractors. Together, they competed the Department’s largest-ever cleanup effort and began a new chapter of work at Oak Ridge’s research and national security sites.
