News from December 2020
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Today, the Bureau of Reclamation and San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority finalized the B.F. Sisk Dam Raise and Reservoir Expansion Project’s Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement/Environmental Impact Report. This joint proposed project would create an additional 130,000...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 5 unsealed Indictments charging 7 defendants. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated four Louisiana parishes as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Caldwell, Natchitoches, Ouachita and Red River parishes who suffered losses caused by Hurricane Laura and strong winds that occurred from Aug. 26 through Aug. 28, 2020, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOE 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
Release: HARTFORD, Conn. - The number of passengers flying through Bradley International 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
News Release: BALTIMORE - Following an investigation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland announced today the seizure of two domain names, “mordernatx.com" and “regeneronmedicals.com," which purported...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - First Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Terrell Ashby, 22, of Williamsburg, VA, was arrested and charged by Complaint for cyberstalking a young woman residing in Delaware County, PA in connection with a “sextortion" scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return by a grand jury of an indictment charging Vershaun Lamar Puzie (32, Jacksonville) with two counts of possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. If convicted, Puzie faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years, and ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Lancaster man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Worcester to three bank robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: A four-count federal grand jury indictment returned in Austin and unsealed today charges three foreign nationals - a Russian citizen and two Bulgarian citizens - with violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), Export Control Reform Act (ECRA), and a money laundering statute in a scheme to procure sensitive radiation-hardened circuits from the U.S. and ship those components to Russia through Bulgaria without required licenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - Christopher C. Brown, 43, of Cordova, Tennessee has been federally indicted for a fraudulent scheme to unlawfully obtain $5.9 million dollars from multiple insurance companies. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney, announced the indictment today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - United States Senior District Court Judge Thomas B. Russell sentenced a Clarksville, Tennessee convicted felon to 18 years imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release for the defendant’s role in the Feb. 18, 2019, Hopkinsville, Kentucky carjacking, announced United States Attorney Russell Coleman. There is no parole in the federal system.
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 DOE Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader for the 116th Congress Greg Walden (R-OR), Republican Leader for the 117th Congress Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: BOISE - Nathanael Michael West, 23, of Kimberly, Idaho, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 36 months in federal prison for mailing threatening communications, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today. U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered West serve three years of supervised release following his prison sentence. West pleaded guilty to the charge on July 13, 2020.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON- House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Budget Committee Ranking Member-Elect Jason Smith (R-Mo.) today flagged serious concerns over three potential cabinet picks-Anthony Blinken for Secretary of State, Alejandro Mayorkas for Secretary of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that Tre’Vin R. Bob, 23, of Lafayette, Louisiana, was sentenced by United States District Judge Robert R. Summerhays to 63 months in prison followed by 3 years of supervised release for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. Magistrate Judge Charles B. Day today sentenced Gerald F. Luchansky, age 82, of Annapolis, Maryland, to four months of home detention as part of one year of probation and ordered him to pay a $5,000 fine, after Luchansky pleaded guilty to receipt of unauthorized compensation...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House today passed, on a bipartisan 320 to 60 vote, a continuing resolution to extend federal government funding through Sunday and allow coronavirus relief negotiations to conclude.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted an emergency use authorization for Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine...
