News from December 2020
By Interior Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management today released a final rule updating antiquated regulations governing the administration of timber sales and forest management decisions. These revisions more effectively execute the bureau’s modern watershed and landscape-level land management planning process, which will enable the BLM to make better decisions more quickly for the benefit of taxpayers and local communities.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: Washington -The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) entered into a stipulation agreement with Knoxville Livestock Auction Center Inc. (Knoxville) of Mascot, Tenn., on Dec. 1, 2020, for violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act. Under the terms of the stipulation agreement, Knoxville waived its rights to a hearing and paid a penalty of $2,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Edward Omar Johnson, age 37, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to committing five bank robberies and two attempted bank robberies in Baltimore and York, Pennsylvania, between Feb. 27, 2019 and March 19, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that ANTHONY ROBINSON (“A. ROBINSON"), age 67; AUDREY HARRIS (“HARRIS"), age 53; JERRY SCHAFFER (“SCHAFFER"), age 66; and KEISHIRA ROBINSON (“K. ROBINSON"), age 26, of New Orleans, Louisiana entered a plea of guilty today to...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: An indictment was unsealed today charging a Texas woman with introducing an unapproved drug into interstate commerce, introducing a misbranded drug into interstate commerce, and introducing an unapproved drug into interstate commerce with the intent to defraud or mislead, announced United States Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding an $8 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to Colorado Lending Source, LTD, Denver, Colorado, to establish a Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) that will provide...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: MARINA, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Central Coast Field Office is easing seasonal fire restrictions on Friday, Dec. 18, on approximately 300,000-acres of public land thanks to a reduction in the potential for wildland fire. The easing of seasonal fire restrictions applies to public lands managed...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Montross man was sentenced today to two years in prison for illegally reentering the U.S. following removal due to an aggravated felony conviction of carnal knowledge of a child.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - Twenty-one people face federal charges as a result of a lengthy investigation into the sale of narcotics on or near college campuses in North Carolina. The drug trafficking investigation, conducted by a United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) task force and the Orange County...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: New Jersey Man Pleads Guilty to Violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: Pharmacy failed to have a system in place to ensure prescribers were licensed in Washington.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: North Carolina Restaurant Owner and Son Charged with COVID-Relief Fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: Obed Wild & Scenic River is kicking off a new volunteer trails program in 2021. The goal of the program is to provide an extended presence in the park while providing Obed’s staff with information on trail conditions. “The Obed Trail Keeper program is a volunteer partnership for people who love the park’s trails and want to help take care of them," said Superintendent Niki Stephanie Nicholas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: POCATELLO - Richard A. Burns, 37, of St. Anthony, Idaho, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 210 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today. U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Burns to serve five years of supervised release following his prison sentence. Burns pleaded guilty to the charge on December 4, 2019.
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 North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality Secretary Michael Regan as his nominee for Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator...
By EPA 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 DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Trent Shores today announced the results of the December 2020 Federal Grand Jury B.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
Release: PHILADELPHIA - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) team at Philadelphia International Airport recognized that the holiday season was likely to be rough on children whose families were struggling during the pandemic due to so many job losses in the region and they wanted to do something about it, so they conducted a Toys for Tots drive that resulted in collecting about twice as many toys this year as in years past.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A federal court in the Eastern District of North Carolina entered a consent judgment and injunction requiring a North Carolina pharmacy, Seashore Drugs, Inc., its owner John D. Waggett, and its pharmacist-in-charge Billy W. King II, to pay $1,050,000.00 in civil penalties and to cease dispensing opioids or other controlled substances, the Department of Justice announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Two individuals were charged in an indictment that was unsealed today for their alleged participation in a scheme to obtain, through multiple fraudulent loan applications, more than $1.7 million in COVID-19 relief guaranteed by the Small Business Administration through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
