News from December 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, Ga. - A Donalsonville, Georgia, man has been sentenced to serve 42 months in a federal prison for attacking a female postal worker as she was delivering mail, said Peter D. Leary, the Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: ELY, Nev. - On Dec. 18, 2020, the Bureau of Land Management Ely District Office, Caliente Field Office concluded the 2020 Meadow Valley Mountains-Delamar Mountains Herd Areas (HAs) emergency wild horse gather. The BLM gathered and removed 455 wild horses from areas within and outside of the HAs located...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: ABINGDON, Va.- A Charlotte, North Carolina-based doctor and his wife were sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Abingdon on charges they conspired to illegally distribute prescription opioids in the Western District of Virginia and then made a false statement about the conduct, Acting United States Attorney Daniel P. Bubar announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Dec. 17, 2020, Thomas Ray Harris, 41, of Rogersville, also known as “Tommy Gun," entered a guilty plea before U.S. District Judge Clifton L. Corker in Greeneville.
By Commerce 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...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, issued the following statement after her meeting with former Secretary Tom Vilsack, President-elect Joe Biden's nominee for Secretary of Agriculture to lead the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
By DOE Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
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 DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: Clark participated in the distribution of multiple pounds of methamphetamine in the Sioux City area.
By Commerce 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 Commerce Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, held a hearing to examine the role of Purdue Pharma and members of the Sackler family in fueling the nationwide opioid epidemic for decades by pushing Purdue executives to flood the market with the highly addictive painkiller OxyContin.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: The project members are assisting in the development of initial response plans to detail how tribal communities can best respond to reports of missing persons.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY) delivered the following remarks on the House Floor in support of, a continuing resolution to extend federal government funding through Sunday and allow coronavirus relief negotiations to conclude.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: Ely, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management Ely District is making fuelwood-cutting permits available online through the BLM Special Forest Products Online Permit Sales Pilot Program. Online permits are available for purchase 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: China-Based Executive at U.S. Telecommunications Company Charged with Disrupting Video Meetings Commemorating Tiananmen Square Massacre.
By EPA 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: Matthew D. Krueger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Dec. 18, 2020, David A. Hay (age: 40) most recently of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced to 60 months’ imprisonment for his receipt of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Jon Daigle, Jr., 33, of Belmont, was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit bank fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - JOSHUA DECKER, 36, of Edmond, has been charged with 35 counts of conspiracy and theft, downloading, transmission, and possession of trade secrets, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that on Dec. 18, 2020, Marcus Navejar, age 39 of Kearney Nebraska, was sentenced in federal court in Lincoln, Nebraska, after having pled guilty to Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine and Possession of a Firearm in Connection with a Drug Trafficking...
