News from January 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - An Indian national pleaded guilty today to conspiracy and identity theft in connection with his operation of an overseas robocall scam that defrauded thousands of mostly elderly victims of at least $8 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky.- A Danville, Ky., man, Lenoard Riley, 45, pleaded guilty on Friday, before Chief U.S. District Judge Danny Reeves, to transporting child pornography using the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Choice Lynn Needham, age 46, of Quinton, Oklahoma entered a guilty plea to Laundering Monetary Instruments, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1956(a)(1)(A)(i) and (2), punishable by up to 20 years’ imprisonment, a fine up to $500,000.00 or twice the amount of the illicit transaction, whichever is greater, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Administrator Timothy J. Shea announced the expansion of Operation Crystal Shield. This expansion includes the designation of two additional methamphetamine “transportation hubs" in 2021. Through this effort, DEA is attacking the entire supply chain, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Julian Beavers a/k/a Ock a/k/a Marcel Ceasar a/k/a BJ, 34, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah J. McCarthy to possessing with intent to distribute and distributing heroin and furanyl fentanyl. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, and a $1,000,000 fine.
By Commerce 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 DOE Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
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 DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Jan. 12, 2021, a federal grand jury had returned a two-count indictment against Jon E. Janikowski (age: 36) of the Winneconne, Wisconsin. The indictment alleges that Janikowski engaged in cyberstalking and illegally possessed ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: Compounding Pharmacy Mogul Sentenced for Multimillion-Dollar Health Care Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Raleigh man was sentenced today to 180 months in prison for Possession of Child Pornography. He was also ordered to pay $33,000 restitution to known victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: Two Maui Men Charged With Hate Crimes For Racially Motivated Attack.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: Miami, Fl. - South Florida federal prosecutors have charged two U.S. Virgin Islands police officers and four others with drug trafficking crimes after federal agents discovered more than 300 kilograms of cocaine being carried inside travel bags on a private passenger flight from the Virgin Islands to Miami this week.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: UKIAH, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Ukiah Field Office invites the public to the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument’s BLM Trails and Travel Management Workshop on Jan. 28, from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m. This virtual workshop will provide an overview of the BLM travel management process, which is scheduled to begin later in 2021, and invite participants to provide comment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was sentenced on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021 in federal court in Boston for fentanyl trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - A Texas man was charged yesterday and arrested today in Texas in connection with making threats regarding the riots at the U.S. Capitol last week.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Mississippi businessman was sentenced today for his role in a multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud TRICARE, the health care benefit program serving U.S. military, veterans, and their respective family members, as well as private health care benefit programs.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette urged the Governors of 55 states and territories to prioritize critical infrastructure mission-essential workers during the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In an official letter, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) noted that the critical ...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Chair of the House Committee on Homeland Security Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chair of the House Committee on Appropriations Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT), and Representatives Dina Titus (D-NV), Lucille...
By EPA 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 DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: Hernandez, who has a 2009 federal firearms conviction, illegally possessed a gun with a homemade silencer.
