News from January 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Kevin Seefried and Hunter Seefried were charged today in federal court in the District of Columbia in connection with the riots at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that Ricky V. McLaughlin, 63, of Belpre, Ohio, pled guilty to wire fraud. McLaughlin faces up to 20 years in prison when sentenced on March 17, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: Owner of Oil Chem Inc. Pleads Guilty to Violating the Clean Water Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: ABINGDON, Virginia - Juan Fernando Sanchez, an inmate at United States Penitentiary (USP) Lee in Jonesville, Virginia, pleaded guilty earlier this week in U.S. District Court in Abington to possessing contraband within a prison, Acting United States Attorney Daniel P. Bubar announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: CENTRAL ISLIP, NY - 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 Interior Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), the National Park Service (NPS) of the U.S. Department of the Interior, and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board (FFSB) announce the establishment of the Fulbright-National Parks Partnership.
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, released the following statement on the additional $40 billion in child care relief included in President-elect Biden’s COVID-19 package. This funding builds on...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) announced that Alexandra Whittaker will lead the Trade Subcommittee’s Democratic staff as the new chief trade counsel. Ms. Whittaker, who currently serves as a trade counsel on the Committee, will assume the role following the departure of Katherine Tai, whom President-elect Biden nominated to serve as the next U.S. Trade Representative.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - 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 Homeland Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: HOUSTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) announced on Wednesday the fiscal year (FY) 2020 immigration statistics for the Houston Field Office. ERO Houston is responsible for overseeing an area of responsibility (AOR) that includes 54 counties stretching from the East Texas border along the Louisiana state line from Shelby County down to Brooks and Kennedy counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: Matthew L. Richardson, 32, of Alton, Illinois, has been sentenced to 87 months in federal prison for two counts of being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. Richardson pleaded guilty to the charges in August 2020. His prison sentence will be followed by three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: Ricardo D. Minor, 40, of Cahokia, Illinois, has pleaded guilty to enticement of a minor,.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: Defendant allegedly failed to disclose his work for the People’s Republic of China to U.S. Department of Energy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: According to Indictment, Defendant’s Company Made Approximately $3.5 Million in Sales to Over 25,000 Customers Between Feb. 11, 2020, and March 8, 2020.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Azteca International Produce LLC satisfied an $83,396 reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) involving unpaid produce transactions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that two Sioux Falls, South Dakota, residents were sentenced on Dec. 28, 2020, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Lynne Mineo, age 72, and Richard Mineo, age 67, both of Old Forge, Pennsylvania, were charged in a criminal information with tax evasion.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a man and a woman from Brookings, South Dakota, convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance, were sentenced on Jan. 11, 2021 by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: Azizjon Rakhmatov Provided Money to Fund Travel of Co-Conspirator to Fight on Behalf of ISIS.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Jan. 14, 2021, a federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment charging Lorenzo Torres-Echevarría with firearms violations and drug trafficking, announced W. Stephen Muldrow, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is in charge of the investigation of the case.
