News from December 2020
By DOL Newswire | Dec 14, 2020
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), issued the following statement after reports circulated that the Justice Department reached a civil settlement regarding widespread corruption within the United Auto Workers (UAW)...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 14, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement regarding the Food and Drug Administration’s decision to grant an emergency use authorization for Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine and two counts of Possession of Methamphetamine with Intent to Distribute was sentenced on Dec. 14, 2020, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Providence man currently serving a term of federal supervised release, having completed a 20-year federal prison sentence for trafficking cocaine, has been ordered detained in federal custody following his arrest for allegedly trafficking multiple kilograms of cocaine.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 14, 2020
News Release: Dear Dr. Slaoui and General Perna...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2020
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Travis Charles White, of Kerens, West Virginia, has admitted to charges related to taking stolen items across state lines, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that FRANK CARR, also known as “FL," 53, of Hamden, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny to 126 months of imprisonment, followed by eight years of supervised release, for distributing narcotics, and for violating the conditions of his supervised release that followed a prior federal narcotics conviction.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 14, 2020
Release: The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has recognized the TSA team in Miami with its top agency honor, naming Miami International Airport as Airport of the Year for 2020. This is the second time that Miami International has received this honor.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2020
News Release: James Heslep Received $128,128 for Influencing FBI Contracts.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 14, 2020
News Release: Bernadette Tsosie won’t readily admit she’s a trailblazer, but once you hear her story, there’s no doubt that she forged a new path for Native American women.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs issued the second Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for Fiscal Year 2021. The Phase I Release 2 FOA, with approximately $50 million in available...
By State Newswire | Dec 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the United States levied sanctions against Turkey under the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) for Turkey’s purchase of a Russian missile defense system, known as the S-400. When it was first revealed that Turkey was attempting to purchase the S-400...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon announced today that her office has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Special Inspector General Brian D. Miller of the Office of the Special Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery (SIGPR), regarding the investigation and prosecution of fraud relating to CARES Act funding.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 14, 2020
News Release: Mississippi National River and Recreation Area Superintendent, John Anfinson, recently announced his retirement effective January 2. Superintendent Anfinson’s federal service career spanned over 40 years, beginning at the Saint Paul District of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and 20 years with the National Park Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that James S. Brink, 30, of Nebraska City, Nebraska, was sentenced in federal court in Omaha on Dec. 11, 2020 for possessing child pornography. United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. sentenced Brink to a 63-month term of imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal system. After his release from prison, Brink will begin a five-year term of supervised release and will be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2020
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Nathaniel Robinson, 29, of Moreno Valley, California, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller in District Court and entered a guilty plea to one count charging him with possession with intent to distribute less than 50 kilograms of marijuana, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Section 841(a)(1), U.S. Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Monmouth County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 13 months in prison for participating in a conspiracy to defraud health insurance companies through a multi-state patient brokering scheme in which he bribed drug-addicted individuals to enroll in drug rehabilitation in exchange for referral fees from the rehabilitation centers, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Stoughton man with ties to the Orchard Gardens housing development in Roxbury pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to drug trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Tanner Brown, 24, of Sharon Springs, New York, has been charged by indictment with one felony count of detaining and delaying U.S. mail, announced Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon and Special Agent in Charge Matthew Modafferi, United States Postal Service Office of Inspector General (USPS-OIG), Northeast Area Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2020
News Release: Mexican Man Was Charged in 2005 and was Fugitive from Justice for 15 Years.
