News from December 2020
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $3 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism, Columbia, South Carolina, to support the...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) wrote to President-elect Joe Biden this morning urging him to extend his mask-wearing mandate, initially announced as applying to all federal buildings, to federally managed public lands sites as well. In the letter, available at.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Agriculture Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations Subcommittee Chair Marcia L. Fudge of Ohio reacted Wednesday to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) appeal of a federal district court ruling striking down the Trump Administration’s rule to strip Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits away from able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWDs).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A Bryan County man who admitted attempting to coerce a child into sexual activity has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Bobby James Sanders, age 34, of Tulsa, Oklahoma entered a guilty plea to Felon In Possession Of Firearm And Ammunition, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2), punishable by not more than 10 years’ imprisonment, a fine up to $250,000.00, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - A federal grand jury has indicted two Peoria area businessmen who led a redevelopment project to renovate the Pere Marquette Hotel and to add a Marriott Courtyard. Gary E. Matthews, 78, and Monte J. Brannan, 67, are charged with using funds provided by investors, the City of Peoria and others, and hotel revenues to enrich themselves and their other business interests from 2008 to 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS-Gateway Arch National Park has announced special hours to coincide with the holiday season. December 23 through Jan. 3, the Gateway Arch is operating in extended holiday hours of 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. The Arch is closed Christmas Day and New Year’s Day, and will close early at 4 p.m. on December 24 & 31. (Hours are subject to change. Please check gatewayarch.com or nps.gov/jeff before your visit to confirm.).
By Interior Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC - A beach is a marvelous place to get away from it all and explore on those beautiful, crisp days during the winter. Dress for the weather and come out to see what you’ve been missing! All activities are free of charge unless noted otherwise below. For more information on these and other activities, call the park at 252-728-2250, extension ‘0’.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A former leader of the New Bedford Chapter of the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (“Latin Kings") was sentenced today for drug conspiracy charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Yankton, South Dakota, woman convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance (methamphetamine) was sentenced on Dec. 15, 2020, by U.S. District Judge Lawrence L. Piersol.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Two men have been ordered to federal prison following their conviction of transporting aliens that resulted in death, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) proposes to expand the production areas in Australia authorized to import fresh citrus fruit into the United States and revise the conditions under which citrus from Australia may be imported.Currently, APHIS allows ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Jamie Denise McDonald, age 31, of Tulsa, Oklahoma entered a guilty plea to Drug Conspiracy, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Section 846, punishable by not less than 10 years and not more than life imprisonment, a fine up to $10,000,000.00, or both.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: LONDON - On behalf of the United States and the United Kingdom, officials from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) signed a Customs Mutual Assistance Agreement (CMAA) on Dec. 16 to further enhance bilateral efforts to secure and facilitate lawful trade. The U.S. Ambassador Robert Wood Johnson and The Rt. Hon. Jesse Norman, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, signed the agreement in London.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald and National Security Division Assistant Attorney General John Demers today announced the guilty plea of BENJAMIN RYAN TEETER, 22, to conspiracy to provide material support and resources, namely property, services and weapons, to Hamas, a designated foreign terrorist ...
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and Representative Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Representative Grace F. Napolitano (D-Calif.), Chair of the Subcommittee ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: Federal, state, county and local law enforcement today participated in a wide-ranging takedown operation of 24 individuals charged in a multiple count indictment filed in federal court. These defendants are accused of participating in a drug trafficking conspiracy that involved the use of a communications facility to facilitate a drug felony and the distribution of cocaine, cocaine base, and fentanyl in the Toledo area.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - On Aug. 17, 2020 Handicare USA (doing business as Prism Medical Services), agreed to pay the United States $800,000 to resolve allegations that it knowingly submitted false claims to the Department of Veteran Affairs (“VA") in the performance of various contracts to install patient ceiling lifts in VA hospitals.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Dec. 15, 2020, a federal grand jury indicted Scott Charmoli (age: 60) of Grafton, Wisconsin, for pursuing a health care fraud scheme that involved purposefully damaging patients’ teeth so that he could bill insurance companies for crown procedures.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2020
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A total of 29 defendants face multiple federal felony charges in a drug trafficking investigation targeting a violent Savannah-area network that distributed cocaine, heroin and marijuana.
