News from January 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - United States Attorney Brian J. Kuester today announced the results of the January 2021 Federal Grand Jury. The grand jury returned 3 unsealed and 5 sealed indictments on crimes ranging from federal firearms offenses, robbery, sexual abuse, child exploitation, and murder in Indian country.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, praised President-elect Biden for his plan to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour and end the use of subminimum wages for tipped workers and workers with disabilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: Defendant manufactured and distributed steroids and fake prescription medications from basement lab.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) announced that Melissa Kiedrowicz will serve as the Committee’s director of outreach and member services. Ms. Kiedrowicz comes to Ways and Means from the office of Congresswoman Linda Sánchez (D-CA), a longtime member of the Committee.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: SANTA FE, N.M. -The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) New Mexico raised $4,076,273 in its quarterly oil and gas lease sale held Jan. 14, 2021. Nearly 50 percent of the revenue from the sale will go to the states where the oil and gas activity occurs-in this case New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas-while the rest will go to the U.S. Treasury.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: Gettysburg National Military Park and Eisenhower National Historic Site have launched new 3D tours of five of the park’s historic buildings. These tours provide a new and unprecedented level of access to iconic structures on the Gettysburg battlefield and the Eisenhower farm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey today announced that they believe the Cumberland County Jail failed to take measures to prevent inmate suicides and provide adequate mental health care.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA, PA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain, who has served as the chief federal law enforcement officer in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (EDPA) since April 6, 2018, will step down on Jan. 22, 2021. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the EDPA is one of the largest U.S. Attorney’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, PA, has been sentenced in federal court to six years’ (72 months’) imprisonment on his conviction of possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and a fentanyl analogue, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service will host special events and provide free entrance to all parks in honor of the Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. on January 18.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: ST. GEORGE, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) announce today decisions that provide Washington County, Utah, the foundation for the future infrastructure needed to support one of the fastest growing communities in the nation, while providing protections...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte sentenced Douglas Randall Phillips, age 58, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to 151 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for federal charges of bank robbery and violation of his federal supervised release from a prior bank robbery conviction. Judge Messitte also ordered Phillips to pay restitution in the full amount of the victim’s loss.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender was sentenced on Jan. 11, 2021, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Second Degree Murder, Discharge of a Firearm During a Crime of Violence, and Tampering With Evidence.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: Today, House Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and House Committee on Oversight and Reform Republican Leader James Comer (R-KY), sent a letter to the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) and the Washington Teachers’ Union (WTU) requesting information about the ...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s Geothermal Technologies Office is excited to announce the latest winners of the Fall 2020 Geothermal Design Challenge™.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: Williams drove over six hours to meet a 15-year-old for sex, after establishing an online relationship with her via Snapchat.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: ALTURAS, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management today released for public review and comment a preliminary environmental assessment analyzing a range of alternatives for managing wild horses and burros on public lands in northern Washoe County, Nev.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ - On Nov. 19, 2020, Michael T. Reynolds, National Park Service Regional Director of Regions 6, 7, and 8, and Ed Keable, Superintendent of Grand Canyon National Park, signed a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the implementation of the Grand Canyon National Park Telecommunications Plan outlined by the 2019 Telecommunications Plan and Environmental Assessment (EA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Seamus Murphy, 38, formerly of Milford, was sentenced to 82 months for bank robbery, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
