News from January 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - United States Attorney David M. DeVillers confirmed today that human remains from two individuals were located during the execution of a search warrant on Jan. 14 at 2448 Sullivant Avenue.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement praising President-elect Biden’s selection of Shalanda Young to serve as Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Blas Sebastian Panzardi Davila of Puerto Rico, appeared today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller for an initial appearance after his arrest on Thursday evening for currency smuggling, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News 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...
By State Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC-Congressman Gregory W. Meeks, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today led 25 members of Congress in denouncing the Trump administration’s short-sighted decision to designate the Houthis a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). In a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo,...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2021
News Release: CINCINNATI - A Wilmington man has been charged federally with making interstate threats and threatening a witness. The crimes arise from the man’s alleged communications online related to his participation in the Jan. 6, 2021 riots at the United States Capitol.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: General Aviation pilots who want to fly around Tampa, Fla., Feb. 3 - 9, 2021 will need to check out the FAA’s Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) for air traffic procedures for the area. Super Bowl LV is Sunday, Feb. 7, at Raymond James Stadium. Game time will be at approximately 6: 0 p.m. EST.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: A Texas woman has been indicted for transporting a minor from the United States to a foreign country for the purpose of female genital mutilation (FGM) following an FBI investigation and with support from ICE’s Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Center (HRVWCC).
By DOE Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that, consistent with statutory direction, DOE currently plans to sell crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) over a multi-month period during Fiscal Year (FY) 2021. The Department expects to begin deliveries in May 2021, but if market conditions warrant, deliveries could begin as early as April 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: BOISE - Alvin Willie George, 25, of Cross City, Florida, pleaded guilty to two counts of cyberstalking, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today. George was indicted by a federal grand jury sitting in Boise on Dec. 11, 2019. Sentencing is set for April 8, 2021, before U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill at the federal courthouse in Boise.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: LANSING, MICHIGAN - On 12 Jan. 2021, Keenan Jermaine Dunigan, 34, pled guilty in federal court to distributing a fatal dose of the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl to a 24-year-old Virginia native, then a resident of Kalamazoo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that two Winner, South Dakota, women have been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) posted an update to the Administrator’s Fact Book today on the FAA News page.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C., Jan. 14, 2021) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today issued a statement celebrating the establishment of the Interagency Wildland Fire Subcabinet. Executive Order on Establishing The Wildland Fire Management Policy Committee will open up more communication channels to ensure better forest management effectiveness between the Departments and Agencies within the Federal government.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that the United States has filed and simultaneously settled a civil lawsuit against Toyota Motor Corporation, Toyota Motor North America Inc., Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. Inc., and Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: The Department of Justice obtained more than $2.2 billion in settlements and judgments from civil cases involving fraud and false claims against the government in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2020, Acting Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Bossert Clark of the Department of Justice’s Civil Division announced today. Recoveries since 1986, when Congress substantially strengthened the civil False Claims Act, now total more than $64 billion.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: The president and owner of Oil Chem Inc. pleaded guilty in federal court in Flint, Michigan, to a criminal charge of violating the Clean Water Act stemming from illegal discharges of landfill leachate — totaling more than 47 million gallons — into the city of Flint sanitary sewer system over an eight ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: Earlier today, an indictment was unsealed in Central Islip, New York charging 14 of the world’s highest-ranking MS-13 leaders who are known today as the Ranfla Nacional, which operated as the Organization’s Board of Directors, and directed MS-13’s violence and criminal activity around the world for almost two decades.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: The Justice Department filed lawsuits today alleging that two obstetrician-gynecologist (OB/GYN) doctors in Bakersfield, California, refused to provide routine medical care to a patient on the basis of her HIV status, in violation of Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
