News from February 2021
By DOE Newswire | Feb 9, 2021
News Release: MOAB, Utah - DOE recently awarded EM’s Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project with multiple GreenBuy awards recognizing the project’s environmentally friendly acquisitions.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Luis Maria-Aguado, 33, was sentenced today in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska, for kidnapping. Chief United States District Judge John M. Gerrard sentenced Maria-Aguado to 125 months’ imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal system. After his release from prison, he will begin a 5-year term of supervised release. Maria-Aguado is a citizen of Mexico and will be deported at the completion of his prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2021
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Anthony Esposito, also known as “Mafia," 52, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea to 46 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for narcotics trafficking and firearm possession offenses.
By State Newswire | Feb 9, 2021
Release: United States Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL). Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): DRL Justice Sector Reform in Armenia. This is the announcement of funding opportunity number SFOP0007601. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 19.345. Type of Solicitation:...
By State Newswire | Feb 9, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) was elected ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for the 117th Congress today. Risch previously served as chairman of the committee during the 116th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that DEEPAK “JACK" JAGTIANI, age 61, a resident of Metairie, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jay C. Zainey to 63 months in prison for embezzling over $7 million from his employer and for defrauding the government of over $1 million in income taxes. JAGTIANI previously pleaded guilty to both counts of the indictment, which charged him with wire fraud and making false statements on a federal income tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2021
News Release: In San Antonio today, a federal judge sentenced 35-year-old Joe Anthony Ramirez to 15 years of imprisonment for supplying heroin for distribution throughout San Antonio, announced U.S. Attorney Ashley C. Hoff and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Steven S. Whipple, Houston Division.
By State Newswire | Feb 9, 2021
Release: United States Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL). Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO):. DRL Youth and Media in Albania. This is the announcement of funding opportunity number SFOP0007597. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 19.345. Type of Solicitation:...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2021
News Release: Defendant stabbed a victim to death, attacked another murder victim with machete, participated in shooting homicide of third victim.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2021
News Release: HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - A federal judge yesterday sentenced a supervisory paramedic for theft of fentanyl from a local ambulance service, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and Special Agent in Charge Justin C. Fielder, U.S. Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations Miami Field Office.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 9, 2021
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - The EM Office of River Protection (ORP) continues to make substantial progress in its preparations to treat millions of gallons of radioactive and chemical waste stored in large underground tanks at the Hanford Site.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2021
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - A Corbin, Ky., man, John Helton, was sentenced to 264 months or 22 years in federal prison on Tuesday, by U.S. District Judge Claria Horn Boom, after previously being convicted of armed methamphetamine trafficking and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of RAY GHANSHAM PERSAUD, 22, to one year and one day in prison for calling in a bomb threat to the University of St. Thomas on Sept. 17, 2019. PERSAUD, who pleaded guilty on Sept. 22, 2020, was sentenced earlier today by Judge Eric C. Tostrud in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 9, 2021
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM and its liquid waste contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) have reached another significant milestone in a project to double-stack canisters containing high-level radioactive waste.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) will serve as the Ranking Member of the powerful Senate Finance Committee in the 117th Congress. The Senate Finance Committee oversees more than 50 percent of the federal budget, and Crapo’s position will give Idaho a strong voice in legislation related...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 9, 2021
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Laredo office conducted an investigation leading to the indictment of a Houston man charged with conspiracy to transport undocumented immigrants.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2021
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada has announced his resignation, effective at 11:59 p.m. on Feb. 28, 2021.
By State Newswire | Feb 9, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 9, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the House Committee on Homeland Security Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS) are urging the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to closely coordinate...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today issued the following statement after Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) announced the markup of a $350 billion bailout for state and local governments and $570 million for additional paid leave for federal employees and postal workers, which is part of the Democrats’ budget reconciliation scheme.
