News from December 2020
By DOE Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: “The Department of Energy is responding to a cyber incident related to the Solar Winds compromise in coordination with our federal and industry partners. The investigation is ongoing and the response to this incident is happening in real time. At this point, the investigation has found that the malware...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released an oversight update assessing ongoing concerns at the Postal Service, including the proposed strategic plan from Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and the Board of Governors...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The number of passengers flying through T.F. Green Airport Airport this holiday season won’t reach 2019 holiday travel numbers, however passenger volume is expected to increase during the end-of-year holiday travel season.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
Release: POCATELLO, Idaho - A local Transportation Security Administration Officer (TSO) is helping to keep members of her community warm this holiday season.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: Confirmed by U.S. Senate to Serve as Federal Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced today that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maine collected more than $3.9 million in criminal, civil and asset forfeiture actions in Fiscal Year (FY) 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: A Brooklyn, New York man was sentenced today in federal court for conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine base and heroin, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Victoria Zoltowski, 34, was sentenced today in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska, for possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of actual methamphetamine. United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. sentenced Zoltowski to 120 months’ imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal system. After her release from prison, she will begin a five-year term of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - Two brothers were indicted by a federal grand jury this week in connection with conspiring to distribute hundreds of grams of fentanyl in Lawrence.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. -David Vann, 29, of Fresno, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd to nine years and two months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: Used Similar Names, Trademarked Logos, and Graphics of Actual Companies to Create Fraudulent Websites in Order to Obtain Personal Information of Victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - Bart Ross pleaded guilty to a criminal information charging him with conspiracy to commit wire and securities fraud arising from a years-long scheme to manipulate the prices of short-term call options in large, publicly traded companies.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: Defendant Agrees to Sentence of Ten Years in Federal Prison; Law Enforcement Seized Kilo Quantities of Drugs, a Loaded Gun, and More Than $41,000 in Drug Proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - David Dorst, of Shade, Ohio, has admitted to a child pornography charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.1 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Arcata Economic Development Corporation, Eureka, California, to capitalize and administer a Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) that will provide critical gap financing to small businesses and entrepreneurs adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic in Del Norte County, California.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: NAPA, Calif. - Today, the Bureau of Reclamation will temporarily close campgrounds at Lake Berryessa; day-use areas and boat launches will remain open unless already closed due to the LNU Lightning Complex fire incident.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - A former Illinois attorney withheld more than $137,000 in payroll taxes from his employees’ paychecks but failed to remit the money to the IRS, according to a criminal charge filed in federal court in Chicago.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement after meeting by phone with Dr. Vivek Murthy, President-elect Biden’s nominee to serve as Surgeon General.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today issued the statement below following the Supreme Court’s dismissal of a challenge to the Trump administration’s plan to exclude illegal immigrants in the reapportionment of congressional seats.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: Cincinnati - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management (EM) issued a Final Request for Proposals for the new Oak Ridge Reservation Cleanup Contract (ORRCC) procurement at the Oak Ridge Reservation (ORR) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
