News from December 2020
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 21, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, following House passage of a legislative package that included extensions of energy-related tax credits, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement underscoring the importance of pro-worker policies accompanying future investments in the green energy sector...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Adriano Roberto Nunez, 28, of Queens, NY, who was convicted of assaulting a federal officer and causing bodily injury, was sentenced to serve eight months in prison and eight months home confinement U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Chillicothe, Missouri, man pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a $142 million scheme to sell non-organic grain as though it was organic.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 21, 2020
News Release: Dear Mr. Morgan: I write to seek to confirm information related to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Field Offices’ application of policy at seaports in the Great Lakes. I have great appreciation for the work CBP does to manage the complex challenge of maintaining security while facilitating...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2020
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Two local women have been ordered to federal prison following their convictions of conspiring with each other to import approximately 50 kilograms of 99% pure meth from Mexico, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By State Newswire | Dec 21, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Congressman Michael McCaul (TX-10), Lead Republican of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, voted in favor of the year-end spending bills, referred to collectively as the omnibus. This legislation included provisions to bring much needed financial relief to small businesses...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2020
News Release: Former Senior Libyan Intelligence Officer and Bomb-Maker for the Muamar Qaddafi Regime Charged for The Dec. 21, 1988 Bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A former employee of the Houston Independent School District was sentenced today in connection with her involvement in a scheme to use bribery and fraud to facilitate cheating on the ACT and SAT exams.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CARLOS DELGADO, also known as “Los," 51, of Mansfield, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall to 300 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for drug trafficking and firearm possession offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 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 DOE Newswire | Dec 21, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released the Energy Storage Grand Challenge Roadmap, the Department’s first comprehensive energy storage strategy. Announced in January 2020 by U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette, the Energy Storage Grand Challenge (ESGC) seeks to create...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two Paterson, New Jersey, men were sentenced today for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 21, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - This morning, House Republicans named Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) to continue as Republican Leader of the influential House Committee on Ways and Means in the 117th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Tywon Stephenson, 31, of Niagara Falls, NY, who was convicted of being an unlawful user of a controlled substance in possession of a firearm, was sentenced to serve 98 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 21, 2020
News Release: DENVER - U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and Colorado law enforcement agencies were recognized by United States Attorney Jason Dunn Dec. 21.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 21, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today announced that his proposal to expand the employee retention tax credit to keep workers on the job and help struggling small businesses survive is included in the end-of-year tax package.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 21, 2020
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement after Finance Committee staff was briefed by the Treasury Department and IRS on the SolarWinds hack...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2020
News Release: BROOKLYN, NY - An indictment was unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn today charging the two owners of over a dozen pharmacies in New York City and on Long Island, for their roles in a $30 million health care fraud and money laundering scheme in which they exploited emergency codes and edits in the...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2020
News Release: MACON, Ga. - Two defendants involved in Macon’s “Get Dat Money" methamphetamine drug distribution organization entered guilty pleas in federal court this morning, said Peter D. Leary, the Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 21, 2020
News Release: COVID Tax Relief. Dec. 21, 2020 - Blog - Coronavirus Bulletin - In Case You Missed It. - Press Releases. Our legislation provides important assistance to individuals, businesses, and students through the tax code. A more technical description of each provision is provided in the section by section.
