News from December 2020
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
Release: SYRACUSE, N.Y. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has installed new acrylic shields at the security checkpoint at Syracuse Hancock International Airport as part of the agency’s ongoing efforts to implement initiatives to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - An initial trial date of Feb. 2, 2021, has been scheduled for a Springfield, Ill., man, Evan Taylor, 24, indicted on federal child pornography charges last week. Taylor, of the 2000 block of Claremont Dr., made his initial appearance on Dec. 21, via video conference in federal court in Springfield. Taylor was arrested on Dec. 18, and was ordered detained in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service pending a detention hearing scheduled on Dec. 28.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Hundreds of the best welders from across the country have put their mark on EM’s massive Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) at the Hanford Site.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) joined Chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Roger Wicker (R-MS) and Ranking Member Maria Cantwell (D-WA) to applaud final...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a draft of the Trusted Internet Connections (TIC) 3.0 Remote User Use Case and the draft National Cybersecurity Protection System (NCPS) Cloud Interface Reference Architecture (NCIRA): Volume 2.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Joseph Chojnacki, 27, of Cheektowaga, NY, who was convicted of possession of child pornography involving a prepubescent minor, was sentenced to serve 60 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON - Each year, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) issues an annual calendar to honor its explosives detection canines from across the country. For the first time ever, TSA is making the 2021 available to the public.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: Today the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded approximately $6 million to five organizations that will develop training programs for emergency responders, building managers and owners, and other officials interacting with solar energy and storage systems, alternative-fuel vehicles and their chargers, and energy-efficient building technologies.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: Department of Justice Files Nationwide Lawsuit Against Walmart Inc. for Controlled Substances Act Violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal grand jury indicted an Ensley man in connection with four armed robberies, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Explosives, and Firearms (ATF) Special Agent in Charge Mickey French.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Atlanta Field Office announced Tuesday the local results of an ongoing national enforcement effort called “Operation Broken Promise." The operation targets for arrest and removal aliens who failed to depart the U.S. voluntarily after being granted voluntary departure by an immigration judge.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Senate Aging Committee Ranking Member Bob Casey, D-Pa., today called on the Trump administration to make public data on vaccine distribution and administration to residents and workers in long-term care facilities across...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine was sentenced on Dec. 21, 2020, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA), and the top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady (R-TX) issued the following statement after the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) released a report that the officials requested of the agency regarding U.S. industry sectors producing COVID-related goods...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: ABINGDON, Virginia - Brett Becker, and the sport supplement company he owns, Accelerated Genetix, LLC, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Abingdon, Virginia, to a felony charge relating to the introduction of unapproved new drugs into interstate commerce. Some of those drugs were shipped into the Western District of Virginia, Acting United States Attorney Daniel P. Bubar announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Shelby Garigen, 42, of Clarence Center, NY, who was convicted of access with intent to view child pornography, was sentenced to serve 37 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), a top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on the inclusion of steps she pushed for to lower drug prices in the omnibus which passed the Senate yesterday.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A New Jersey-based securities trader was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for orchestrating a massive, long-running market manipulation scheme and tax fraud that netted more than $17 million in illegal profits between 2014 and 2016, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Rich Square man was sentenced on Friday, Dec. 18, 2020, to 52 months in prison for possession of firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2020
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced that Maurice D. Grigsby, also known as “Ty", 35, of Huntington, was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for two counts of distribution of crack cocaine.
