News from December 2020
By USDA Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: Lurie Brothers LLC violated the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) by failing to pay a reparation award in the amount of $26,163 in December 2019. As a result, USDA imposed sanctions on the business, including requiring that all principals may not be employed by or affiliated with any PACA licensee without USDA approval.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: HONOLULU, Hawaii - Glenn Robert Alika Muth, 28, of Honolulu, was sentenced yesterday in federal court by United States District Judge Derrick K. Watson to 71 months of imprisonment and three years of supervised release for possession of a stolen firearm, possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: Harrisonburg, Va. - A Luray woman, who police stopped for driving with a suspended license and found to be in possession of methamphetamine and other drugs, pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to a pair of federal drug charges, Acting United States Attorney Daniel P. Bubar announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS, MO - United States Attorney Jeff Jensen, 54, of St. Louis, Missouri, has announced his resignation effective midnight Dec. 30, 2020. After his resignation, he plans on joining a private law firm in the St. Louis area.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Tommy Ryan Gouge, age 41, of Clearview, Oklahoma entered a guilty plea to Murder In Indian Country - Second Degree, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1111(a), 1151 and 1153, punishable by any term of years up to life imprisonment, a fine up to $250,000.00, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erin Nealy Cox will resign from the Department of Justice, the office announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON-The House Committee on Oversight and Reform today held a hearing with the CEO of Purdue Pharma and two members of the Sackler family about their role in the opioid epidemic. At the hearing, Republican members blasted Purdue Pharma’s marketing strategies, spearheaded by the Sackler family, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS - Demetrius Tyrese Johnson was sentenced today to 180 months in prison. The 26-year-old St. Louis, Missouri, resident pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and one count of felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Hampton man was sentenced today to 12 1/2 years in prison for distributing crack cocaine and possessing a firearm in furtherance of his distribution of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: HAMMOND-Mary Cossey, age 54, of Munster, Indiana, was indicted for three counts of wire fraud relating to her petition for Chapter 13 bankruptcy relief, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - Apnix Sleep Diagnostics LP has paid the United States $154,824 to resolve claims that it improperly billed the Medicare program for sleep studies, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: Another Dallas real estate developer has been charged with bribing city officials, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: Allegedly spent stolen funds from a Kentucky investor on Ferraris, horses, Rolex watches, and escorts.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette issued a prohibition order designed to reduce the risks that entities associated with the People’s Republic of China pose to the Nation’s bulk-power system (BPS). The order invokes the authority delegated to the Secretary by Executive...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: Salt Flat, Texas - Guadalupe Mountains National Park will temporarily close Guadalupe Peak to backcountry camping from Sunday, Dec. 20, 2020 until Monday, January 4, 2021. Due to exceptional drought, continued patterns of resource damage and illegal fire violations at Guadalupe Peak backcountry sites, all Guadalupe Peak sites will be closed to backcountry camping.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: Bruce Powell, Deputy Superintendent of Mammoth Cave National Park, announces his retirement from the National Park Service (NPS) at the end of December 2020. Powell’s federal career began in 1984 and has taken him around the country for over 36 years of dedicated public service.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, issued the following statement condemning the Trump Administration’s recent issuance of final and proposed rules that allow for discrimination against LGBTQ+ Americans...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that Eric Wiseman, 40, of South Charleston, was sentenced to 10 months in federal prison for attempting to possess with intent to distribute marijuana.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: SEATTLE - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers removed an illegally present convicted murderer to Mexico Dec. 8.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation California-Great Basin Region announces the selection of Scott Taylor and Ankur Bhattacharya as the Regional Liaison Team. Taylor, as the Commissioner’s CGB liaison in Washington DC, and Bhattacharya as the regional liaison in Sacramento, will help coordinate the region’s priorities and briefings for Reclamation and Department of the Interior leadership.
