News from January 2021
By USDA Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on Bella Fresh Houston LLC (Bella Fresh), Houston, Texas, for violating the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA). These sanctions include barring the business and the principal operators of the business from engaging in PACA-licensed business or other activities without approval from USDA.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement on President-elect Biden’s speech tonight outlining his plan to bring an end to the COVID-19 pandemic and economic crisis...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Rancho San Pedro street gang member who oversaw the group’s daily operations, arranged sales of oxycodone and heroin, and reported to incarcerated Mexican Mafia members about the gang’s activities, was sentenced today to 120 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Hyde Park man was indicted today by a grand jury in Boston in connection with robbing a Citizen’s Bank in Concord.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Susan A. Gibson, and Mercer County Prosecutor Angelo J. Onofri today announced that a six-month, multi-jurisdictional investigation of narcotics distribution and violent crime in the Mercer County area...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: MS-13’s Highest-Ranking Leaders Charged with Terrorism Offenses in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - With the unprecedented worldwide health emergency brought on by COVID-19, last year was filled with new challenges and increased risks. While much of the world focused on combating the pandemic, DEA continued to implement initiatives to combat violent drug traffickers who were intent on flooding cities and rural areas alike with illicit, deadly drugs.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Republican Leader James Comer (R-KY) and House Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) and the Washington Teachers’ Union (WTU) requesting information...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: Washington D,C.- House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) today issued the following statement after the House Republican Steering Committee selected eight new members to serve on the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Daniel J. Trammell, age 58, of Syracuse, was sentenced yesterday to serve 30 months in prison for assaulting a United States Postal Service employee, announced Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon and Joseph Cronin, Postal Inspector in Charge of the Boston Division of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.
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 DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Pierre, 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 Interior Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: Pea Ridge National Military Park Implementation of Highway 62 Mitigations.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) released the following statement on President-elect Biden’s emergency coronavirus relief proposal, the American Rescue Plan.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: BANGOR, Maine: A Clinton woman was sentenced today in federal court for Social Security fraud and making false statements, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) and Defense Appropriations Subcommittee senior member Betty McCollum (D-MN-04) today wrote to the Secretary of the Army requesting cots be provided for National Guard members protecting the United States Capitol.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – On January 13th, 2021, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) issued a Preliminary Notice of Violation (PNOV) to Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth LLC (FBP) for violations of DOE nuclear safety requirements. DOE’s enforcement program holds contractors accountable for meeting regulatory requirements and maintaining a safe workplace. FBP is the management and operating contractor for the Portsmouth Site located in Piketon, Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: FLINT - Robert J. Massey, 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 forty-seven million gallons-into the City of Flint sanitary sewer system over an eight and one-half year period, the Justice Department announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MIKE CRUZ, also known as Mike Flores and “Mega," 31, of Manchester, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for distributing fentanyl. Judge Meyer also ordered Cruz to pay a $10,000 fine.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: Washington D,C.- House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) today issued the following statement after the House Republican Steering Committee selected eight new members to serve on the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
