News from January 2021
By Interior Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: WEAVERVILLE, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation announces the selection of five grant recipients for watershed improvement projects as part of the Trinity River Restoration Program. The projects will help reduce fine sediment runoff into the Trinity River and improve fish habitat and passage in Trinity River tributaries.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Lexington, Ky., man, Oscar Bustamante, 29, was sentenced on Friday, by Chief U.S. District Judge Danny Reeves, to 120 months in federal prison, for trafficking in cocaine and heroin, and possessing firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking.
By State Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC-Today, Congressman Gregory W. Meeks, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, issued the following statement on the Trump administration’s proposed cuts to diplomacy and development funding...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Tristan Warner, age 47, of New Jersey, was charged today with interstate travel with the intent to engage in sexual conduct with a minor. The announcement was made by Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon and Thomas F. Relford, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina -- United States Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr. announced today that Natalie Michelle Quarles, 45, of Lexington, was sentenced to nine years in federal prison after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition and possession with intent to distribute...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: Defendant and co-conspirators distributed over 1,500 prescriptions for Adderall - amounting to 110,000 pills.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: Washington D.C. -House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) issued the following statement about President-elect Biden’s plan for the COVID-19 vaccinations.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: Today, Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) announced the full Democratic rosters for each of the six subcommittees in the 117th Congress, including the six subcommittee chairs and the full Committee vice chair, who were elected by the Democrats on the Committee. The six subcommittees and their chairs are...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the establishment of a Division of Minerals Sustainability to bring an increased focus to securing a U.S. critical minerals supply chain that will transform the U.S. energy and manufacturing systems to make them cleaner, more resilient, and more secure.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: Today, Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) announced the full Democratic rosters for each of the six subcommittees in the 117th Congress, including the six subcommittee chairs and the full Committee vice chair, who were elected by the Democrats on the Committee. The six subcommittees and their chairs are...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: SENTENCING - KRIS LANDON GREENE. On January 8, Kris Landon Greene, 23, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance and possession of a firearm by a user of a controlled substance. Greene admitted that members of Dallas-based criminal street gang known...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: Today, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), House Education and Labor Committee Chairman Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (D-VA), Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Federal law enforcement agents today arrested Daniel Baker of Tallahassee for transmission, in interstate commerce, of a communication containing a threat to kidnap or to injure. Baker issued a call to arms for like-minded individuals to violently confront protestors gathered at...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued the following statement calling on Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham to resign...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - An Orange County man who led police on a high-speed car chase after they attempted to pull him over with approximately 75 pounds of cocaine in his vehicle pleaded guilty today to a federal narcotics charge.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: BISMARCK, N.D. - The Bureau of Reclamation today signed a record of decision selecting the preferred alternative proposed for the Eastern North Dakota Water Supply Project. The project is designed to deliver a bulk water supply to meet municipal and rural water needs of people in central and eastern North Dakota.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA- Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after learning that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will open this year’s filing season on Feb. 12, 2021...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: Stole nearly $7 million using fake invoices and false wire transfers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: A Lubbock dentist has been charged with child pornography crimes, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) announced plans to make $160 million in federal funding available to help recalibrate the Nation’s vast fossil-fuel and power infrastructure for decarbonized energy and commodity production. The funding, for ...
