News from January 2021
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: Hot Springs, AR - Thermal water service will be temporarily interrupted to inspect the main thermal water reservoir from January 26 to February 4. This work involves draining the reservoir to allow engineers and others to safely enter and complete an assessment of its current condition and conduct structural...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC--Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), and House Education and Labor Committee Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA)...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: TEXARKANA, Texas - A Liberty County, Texas, man and woman have been charged with filing hundreds of fraudulent Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) applications with the Small Business Administration (SBA) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Eduardo Flores, Jr., 50, of Amherst, NY, was charged by criminal complaint with depredation of government property. The charge carries a maximum penalty of one year in prison and a $100,000 fine.
By State Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: Washington- Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today issued the following statement on President-elect Joe Biden’s nomination of Ambassador Samantha Power to lead the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that Kirbyjon H. Caldwell, 67, was sentenced today by United States District Judge S. Maurice Hicks, Jr. to 72 months (6 years) in prison followed by 1 year of supervised release for conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Caldwell was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $3,588,500, as well as a fine of $125,000.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Today, House Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) led Committee Democrats in urging U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) Secretary Steven Mnuchin to act upon news reports suggesting that tax-exempt organizations had a role in the seditious and destructive activities that...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: CONTACT: Barbara Burns. PHONE: (716) 843-5817. FAX #: (716) 551-3051. ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Michael Greco, 25 of Spencerport, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa to attempted receipt of child pornography. The charge carries...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: Concord, NH - The United States Marshals Service is pleased to announce the arrest of this week’s “Fugitive of the Week," Ethan Mitchell Strong. It was shortly after being featured as this week’s “Fugitive of the Week," that Ethan Mitchell Strong, 20 years-of-age, was arrested without incident in Littleton, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Butler, Missouri, man has been sentenced in federal court for distributing methamphetamine and possessing a homemade firearm.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - For the first time, EM and its liquid waste contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) have removed columns that are filled with cesium in a demonstration project designed to accelerate removal of radioactive salt waste from underground tanks.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
Release: APPLETON, Wis. - The Transportation Security Administration checkpoint at Appleton International Airport (ATW) is now utilizing new state-of-the-art technology that confirms the validity of a traveler’s identification (ID) and confirms their flight information in near real time.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, today issued the following statement on a withhold release order by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, blocking certain goods produced with forced labor in China’s Xinjiang province.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Rolla, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Attorneys representing the four districts in Texas have announced their intent to prosecute any crimes committed at the state capitol or otherwise in violation of federal law ahead of upcoming presidential inauguration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: ROCKFORD - A man from Lake in the Hills, Ill. was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury on charges of traveling in interstate commerce for the purpose of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Chinese national who held high-level executive positions at chemical and pharmaceutical companies in China was sentenced today to 28 months in prison for drug and money laundering offenses, including the importation of fentanyl analogues into New Jersey, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: Federal law requires sex offenders to report travel 21 days prior to departure.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: Spokane - William D. Hyslop, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Joshua Isaac Stine, age 34, a resident of Ephrata, Washington, was sentenced today after having pleaded guilty on May 28, 2020, to Conspiracy to Distribute 500 Grams or More of a Mixture or Substance ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, Susan A. Gibson, and acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Rachael A. Honig, announced a Chinese national who held high-level executive positions at chemical and pharmaceutical companies in China was sentenced today to 28 months in prison for drug and money laundering offenses, including the importation of fentanyl analogues into New Jersey.
