News from December 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - Jeremy Fitzgerald, 34, and Turliscea Turner, 29, both of Memphis, Tennessee, have been federally charged in a criminal complaint with kidnapping a two-year-old boy whom they later abandoned at a Goodwill Store in Southaven, Mississippi. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the kidnapping charge in the federal complaint today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: Arrangements to sell a firearm and meth allegedly made from inside the Rhode Island state prison.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has issued the March 2021 oil and gas lease sale environmental assessment for public review and comment. The BLM proposes to lease nine parcels, totaling approximately 7,213 acres which are described in the EA. The parcels are located in Grand, Sevier, Wayne, and Uintah counties on lands managed by the BLM’s Moab and Vernal Field Offices and the Fishlake National Forest.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - Today, the United States Attorney’s Office made public a complaint against Celestine Coletta Strong, 44, of Phoenix, Arizona; Jawuan Polk, 35, of Portland, Oregon; Patrick Earl Lewis, 45, residence unknown; and Ty’zhaun Marqui Lewis, 23, of Phoenix, Arizona with charges including conspiracy, wire fraud, and money laundering in connection with fraudulent Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan applications.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after President-elect Joe Biden named former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm as his nominee for Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: Miami, Fl.-- Today, Marquies McGirt, 32, a former Miami-Dade Police Department (“MDPD") public service aide (“PSA") pled guilty to conspiring to commit mail fraud, by accepting bribes from a co-conspirator who operated a for-profit credit repair business.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: LITTLE ROCK- A federal investigation resulted in charges against four people for their alleged involvement in fire bombings of police vehicles in Little Rock and North Little Rock in August 2020. Cody Hiland, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, ...
By State Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
Release: NOTES. Note 1: Geopolitical Entities, Names, and Codes (GENC) Standard two-letter and three-letter codes. GENC is the replacement standard for FIPS 10-4 and is the U.S. Government profile of the ISO 3166 international country code standard. For more information on GENC please see.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: EUGENE, Ore.-Ronald Wayne Thrasher, 50, a prolific drug dealer from Madras, Oregon with a decades-long criminal history, was sentenced today to 25 years in federal prison followed by five years’ supervised release, announced U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: Chowchilla prison inmates involved in one and Roseville woman involved in second.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and Ways and Means Worker and Family Support Subcommittee Chairman Danny K. Davis (D-IL) released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) finalized a rule allowing organizations receiving federal funds from nine federal agencies to discriminate against certain populations...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Northborough man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Worcester to his role in more than $600,000 in fraud schemes targeting elderly victims, and agreeing to launder the proceeds of such schemes and other criminal activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a 13-count indictment charging David Rubel, 38, of Kenmore, NY, with production, receipt, and possession of child pornography, sexual enticement of a minor, and transfer of obscene material to a minor. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in prison and a maximum of life in prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today issued the following statement after the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee recommended the appointment of Representatives Angie Craig (D-MN), Lizzie Fletcher (D-TX), Kathleen Rice (D-NY), Kim Schrier (D-WA), and Lori Trahan (D-MA) to the Energy and Commerce Committee for the 117th Congress...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after President-elect Joe Biden named North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality Secretary Michael Regan as his nominee for Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in coordination with The Los Angeles Police Department’s (LAPD) Commercial Crimes Division, Illicit Pharmaceutical and Counterfeit Unit (IPCU) seized counterfeit products arriving in three containerized cargo shipments from China.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after President-elect Joe Biden named former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm as his nominee for Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Senior U.S. District Judge Richard Mills sentenced Chase Brown, 21, of the 1000 block of Heathrow Lane, Rochester, Ill., to serve 37 months in federal prison for operating a sham medical equipment reseller business that defrauded businesses and individuals from various states. A hearing has been scheduled on Jan. 19, 2021, to determine the final restitution amount.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after President-elect Joe Biden named North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality Secretary Michael Regan as his nominee for Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after President-elect Joe Biden named former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm as his nominee for Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy...
