News from January 2021
By DOE Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) enters a new chapter in cleanup this year that will transform the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Y-12 National Security Complex (Y-12) and support the important missions at those sites.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas resident who participated in a fraudulent prize-notification scheme that bilked victims out of more than $9 million was sentenced today to federal prison, the Department of Justice announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national who previously resided in Lawrence was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for aggravated identity theft and fraudulent use of a Social Security number.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: BOISE - Ismael Rodriguez, 41, of Caldwell, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 151 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today. Chief U.S. District Judge David C. Nye also ordered Rodriguez to pay a $1,000 fine and serve five years of supervised release following his prison sentence. Rodriguez pled guilty to the charge on October 9, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A registered sex offender from Kansas City, Kansas, pleaded guilty in federal court today to crossing state lines to engage in illicit sexual activity with a 14-year-old Missouri victim he met on Facebook.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A San Gabriel Valley man was sentenced today to 120 months in federal prison for fraudulently obtaining $147 million from tens of thousands of investors around the world in a massive investment scam where a multinational company issued a phony digital currency purportedly backed by billions of dollars’ worth of amber and other gemstones.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - The U.S. Marshals arrested 16 people Tuesday as the result of a federal grand jury indictment returned Jan. 6, 2021, charging them with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Hallet Merrick, 34, of White River Junction, Vermont was sentenced to 36 months in federal prison for unlawfully possessing a firearm and fentanyl, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced plans to seek public comment on the existing noise research portfolio, including the Neighborhood Environmental Survey, and additional areas recommended for investigation. The notice is available on FAA’s website.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: Today, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr., (D-NJ), House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), and House Education and Labor Committee Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA), issued the following...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: BANGOR, Maine: A Presque Isle man pleaded guilty in federal court today to conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: HOUSTON - A federal grand jury has returned the first-ever indictment regarding the specific allegation of circumcision, excision or infibulation of a minor’s labia majora, labia minora or clitoris.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - EM workers provided feedback and lessons learned to help develop a new box to contain materials for disposal as they decontaminate the walls of a former reprocessing cell inside the Main Plant Process Building at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: BILLINGS - A Lodge Grass man who admitted strangling his girlfriend on the Crow Indian Reservation was sentenced today to 15 months in prison and three years of supervised release, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif Johnson said.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: PORTLAND - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers removed two illegal aliens to Mexico on Tuesday, who combined have previous convictions including sexual abuse, aggravated sexual assault and prohibited sexual conduct in both Washington and Oregon.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: Today, the Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Prize released the official for the third and final phase of the Department of Energy (DOE) funded $5.5 million competition. The goal of this Prize is to develop and demonstrate processes that, when scaled, have the potential to profitably capture 90% of all discarded...
By State Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Representative Michael McCaul (R-Texas), lead Republican of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement ahead of tomorrow’s general election in Uganda. In recent months,...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) will be hosting a virtual hiring event Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr. announced that Rafael Salas, Jr., 52, of Columbia, was sentenced to a year and a half in federal prison after pleading guilty to failing to pay to the government taxes he withheld from his employees’ paychecks. Salas spent the funds for personal expenses and entertainment, including on a boat and at a strip club.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOSE MANUEL SANTOS, 38, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 228 months of imprisonment, followed by seven years of supervised release, for enticing a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity, and for obstructing justice by attempting to have the minor victim murdered.
