News from December 2020
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - In its ongoing effort to combat the global COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), in partnership with the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory, will conduct tests in a real-world environment to determine the most effective measures to reduce the spread of viruses on public transit.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - As part of its continuing efforts to reduce drug misuse and overdose, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is launching a winter campaign urging the public to “Secure Your Meds." The current health crisis has magnified the importance of addressing the issue of controlled prescription drug...
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Tonight, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) released the following statement after President-elect Joe Biden announced the nomination of Pete Buttigieg as Secretary of Transportation...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - EM and its cleanup contractor at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) conducted a training exercise with local emergency response agencies, held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON-Subcommittee on Government Operations Ranking Member Jody Hice (R-Ga.) and Oversight Republicans today wrote Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger regarding concerns over voting irregularities in the State of Georgia during the 2020 election.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Jacob Merkel, 22, of Albuquerque was sentenced in federal court to 13 years in prison for one count of interference with interstate commerce by robbery and violence and one count of using, carrying, and discharging a firearm during and in relation to crime of violence, and possessing and discharging a firearm in furtherance of such crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: Columbus, OH - United States Marshal Peter Tobin is pleased to announce that Brian Lee, 38, was arrested on Nov. 25, 2020 in Marengo, OH with the assistance of the Morrow County Sheriff’s Office. Lee was wanted by the Columbus Police Department on a warrant issued on Nov. 14, 2020, from the Franklin...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Jafet Rodriguez, 40, of Hazleton Pennsylvania, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge William K. Sessions III to a two-year term of federal supervised release. Rodriguez previously pled guilty to unlawfully smuggling...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - This year, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) used its authority through a combination of traditional practices and unique approaches to assure safe and healthful working conditions for America’s workers.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced Blake Lincoln Smith, 34, of Anchorage, Alaska, has been sentenced on charges of possessing heroin with intent to distribute and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. -- A convicted felon was sentenced today to an additional 15 months in prison for escaping from a halfway house, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: Ilan T. Graff, the Attorney for the United States, Acting Under Authority Conferred by 28 U.S.C. § 515, announced that ROBERT JOSEPH FARKAS, a/k/a “RJ," was sentenced on December 15 to one year and one day in prison, in connection with his participation in a scheme to induce victims to invest more than...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A Brownsville federal grand jury has indicted a Canadian woman for prohibitions with respect to biological weapons and making threats via interstate commerce, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick along with Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs of the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: MISSOULA - A California man who admitted mailing methamphetamine and other drugs to Montana for distribution and wiring drug proceeds back to California was sentenced today to six years in prison and five years of supervised release, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif Johnson said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - Nathan Horton has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly illegally trapping and exporting thousands of freshwater turtles in Georgia in violation of the Lacey Act, which regulates the trafficking and labeling of wildlife, fish, and plants.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Today, House Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Chairman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), and Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ), led Committee Democrats in requesting more information on U.S. Customs and Border...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: A superseding indictment has been unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn charging John Martin, Brandon Daniels, Lamonte Johnson, Shi Zhen Lin and Corey Mobley with conspiring to commit robberies in Queens, Staten Island, Suffolk County and New Jersey, committing and threatening to commit physical violence ...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), House Administration Committee Ranking Member Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), and Subcommittee on Government Operations Ranking Member Jody Hice (R-Ga.) demanded...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: A Boston man was sentenced today in federal court for conspiring to commit bank fraud and aggravated identity theft, as well as bank fraud and aiding and abetting aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau released the 2020 CPS ASEC Geographic Mobility detailed table package and updates to historical tables and graphs. Geographic mobility and migration both refer to the movement of people from one location of residence to another. These national- and regional-level estimates are from the 2020 Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC).
