News from November 2020
By EPA Newswire | Nov 30, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH) released the following statement after Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai announced his intent to depart the FCC on Jan. 20, 2021 after eight years of service.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Last week, the U.S. Department of Labor took a range of actions to aid American workers and employers as our nation combats the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2020
News Release: GREENVILLE, N.C. - Xavier Santonio Bobbitt of Oxford man was sentenced today to 36 months in prison for possessing firearms as a convicted felon. No stranger to federal courts, this was Bobbitt’s third conviction for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2020
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Los Angeles woman, Nancy Santos, 30, was sentenced in federal court last week, to 29 months in prison, before U.S. District Judge Claria Horn Boom, for conspiracy to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine and conspiracy to launder money.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2020
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Nov. 24, 2020, Joseph Bryan Robertson, aka “Chief," 52, of Elizabethton, Tennessee was sentenced to 324 months imprisonment by the Honorable Clifton L. Corker, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Greeneville.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 30, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Tien Van Phan, 56, of the San Jose area, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute marijuana that was shipped from Fresno to Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS.- Robert J. Bell, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration - Chicago Division and Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Jermaine Stapleton, 37, Eagan, Minnesota was sentenced on November 24 by U.S. District Judge William...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 30, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH) released the following statement after Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai announced his intent to depart the FCC on Jan. 20, 2021 after eight years of service.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Garrick Bailey, age 29, Chavon Sutton, age 30, Timothy Kingsland, age 56, and Tracey Kingsland, age 48, all of Schenectady, New York, and Christina Altieri, age 46, of Clifton Park, New York, were arrested last week and charged by criminal complaint with drug crimes. Sutton is charged...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Alexander Harrison, age 23, of Mounds, Oklahoma entered a guilty plea to Assault Resulting In Serious Bodily Injury In Indian Country, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 113(a)(6), 2, 1151 and 1153, punishable by up to 10 years’ imprisonment, a fine up to $250,000.00, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 144 months in prison for his role as a member of a heroin trafficking conspiracy, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 30, 2020
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management is offering permits to cut your own Christmas tree on BLM-administered lands in the Grand Junction Field Office from now through Dec. 24. Permits are valid for piñon pines or junipers and may be purchased online or in person for $10 per tree. In an effort to promote forest regeneration and stand health, permits do not authorize the cutting of ponderosa pines.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - A 25 year-old resident of Houston has been ordered to federal prison after he threatened two young girls and required them to engage in commercial sex, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 30, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) have issued a funding opportunity announcement (FOA) for up to $40 million, over a 5-year period, for the Operation and Maintenance of the Ocean Energy Safety Institute (OESI 2.0) to support additional improvements in safety and environmental sustainability in offshore energy exploration and production.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ADEL KELLEL, owner of Raffles Bistro, formerly a restaurant located in New York City, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to two years in prison for perpetrating a tax evasion scheme. KELLEL...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2020
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis today sentenced Correctional Officer Janel Griffin, age 41, of Baltimore, to 27 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for a federal racketeering charge related to her participation in a scheme to smuggle contraband into the Maryland Correctional Institute Jessup (MCIJ), including narcotics, unauthorized flash drives, tobacco, and cell phones.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2020
News Release: LITTLE ROCK - A former Little Rock youth pastor pleaded guilty today to transporting minors across state lines for the purpose of unlawful sexual activity. Robert Shiflet, 50, now of Denton, Texas, entered his guilty plea earlier today before United States District Judge Lee P. Rudofsky. Cody Hiland, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Diane Upchurch, Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock Field Office of the FBI, announced today’s guilty plea.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 30, 2020
News Release: SANTA FE, N.M. - As part of the Trump Administration’s commitments to being a good neighbor and responsibly developing our natural resources, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) New Mexico is announcing a public comment period on the environmental analysis for its April 15, 2021, oil and gas lease sale.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 30, 2020
Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has issued the final environmental assessment (EA) for releasing Japanese knotweed psyllid (Aphalara itadori) to manage Japanese, giant, and bohemian knotweeds (Fallopia japonica, F. sachalinensis, and their hybrid, ...
