News from December 2020
By EPA Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today regarding the SolarWinds cyberattack...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) published the Resilient Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Conformance Framework today. PNT services, such as the Global Positioning System (GPS), is a national critical function that enables many applications...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MICHAEL R. WEIGAND, a/k/a “Shabang," a/k/a “~Shabang~," a/k/a “~s," a/k/a “s," was sentenced to eight months in prison today for making false statements to federal agents about his involvement in...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - United States Attorney David M. DeVillers announced today his selections for annual awards for outstanding performance, new management appointments, and his district’s recipients of national director’s awards.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued the following statement after the Supreme Court ruled to dismiss a challenge to the Trump Administration’s plan to exclude undocumented immigrants from the U.S. Census...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A man previously convicted of numerous violent felonies and who is a registered sex offender pleaded guilty today to being a felon in possession of a firearm and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes civil penalties of $15,000 and $7,500, respectively, against two airline passengers for allegedly interfering with and assaulting flight attendants who instructed them to wear face coverings.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment Thursday against Michael Ray Pitre Jr., 35, of Vallejo, charging him with being a felon in possession of firearms, and possession of an unregistered short barrel rifle, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: Raleigh, NC - The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS), in coordination with the Johnston County Sheriff’s Office, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New York and New York City Police Department, safely recovered a highly endangered missing juvenile who had been missing from Johnston County, NC, since Oct.12.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: A west Texas child predator was sentenced yesterday to life in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and James Lankford (R-OK) applauded House passage of their bipartisan...
By State Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: Mark Bosly. Chief Air Services Negotiator. UK Department for Transport. Great Minster House. 33 Horseferry Road. London SW1P 4DR. mark.bosly@dft.gov.uk. cc benjamin.taylor@dot.gov; joseph.landart@dot.gov; nicholas.woodbridge@fcdo.gov.uk; rachel.roberts@fcdo.gov.uk; James.Gilderoy@dft.gov.uk; eugene.alford@trade.gov...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
Release: PALM SPRINGS, California - This holiday season, local employees with the Transportation Security Administration at Palm Springs International Airport (PSP) have proven it is “better to give than receive."
By DOE Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) selected 11 winning teams for their concepts to leverage the rapid innovations enabled by advanced manufacturing to solve hydropower’s critical challenges. Through the Innovations in Advanced Manufacturing for Hydropower (I...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman announced today that Brad Lewis Bradley, 40, of Detroit, Michigan, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge John R. Adams to 240 months of imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Dr. Moses de-Graft Johnson, a dual citizen of the United States and Ghana, pled guilty today to committing health care fraud, conspiracy to commit health care fraud, and aggravated identity theft. Lawrence Keefe, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced the plea.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS, MO - United States District Judge John A. Ross sentenced Conrad Sparkman to 120 months in prison today, the statutory maximum for the offense of felon in possession of a firearm. The 36-year-old Cahokia, Illinois resident pleaded guilty to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm on Sept. 24, 2020.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and House Committee on Financial Services Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) issued the following statement as Senate Republicans demanded the inclusion of a dangerous provision from Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) in COVID-19 relief legislation that would hamstring the new Administration’s ability to recover from the economic crisis by eliminating the Federal Reserve’s ability to lend in an emergency...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: DOLORES, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Tres Rios Field Office today approved a comprehensive transportation plan that will provide improved public, commercial, and administrative access across approximately 100,000 acres of BLM-administered public land in Archuleta, La Plata and Montezuma counties in southwestern Colorado (Travel Area 1).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: A Fort Worth methamphetamine dealer was sentenced today to 262 months in federal prison for participating in a conspiracy to distribute drugs and launder approximately $275,000 of drug proceeds to Mexico, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
