News from January 2021
By DOE Newswire | Jan 11, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) issued the following statement following his phone call with Rep. Debra Haaland (D-NM), whom President-elect Biden intends to nominate for U.S. Secretary of the Interior.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2021
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A former Orange County social worker pleaded guilty today to a federal criminal charge that he distributed computer video files that contained sexually explicit videos depicting children, including infants and toddlers.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 11, 2021
News Release: In celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Superintendent Scott Tucker is pleased to announce that the entrance fee to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) will be waived on Monday, Jan. 18, 2021.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 11, 2021
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement on a final rule issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) allowing its grantees to deny services - including foster care and adoption, youth homelessness, pre-K programs, public health programs and more - on the basis of religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and marital status...
By State Newswire | Jan 11, 2021
Release: United States Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL). Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): DRL FY20 IRF: Advocacy to Preserve Cultural Heritage in Africa. This is the announcement of funding opportunity number SFOP0007534. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number:...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2021
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Guy Anthony Folta of Fort Walton Beach, Florida, was sentenced to serve 15 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to possession with intent to distribute over 50 grams of methamphetamine, heroin, and cocaine, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon. Lawrence Keefe, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced the sentence.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 11, 2021
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued a statement after the Trump administration approved a Medicaid waiver in Tennessee that would allow the state to make harmful changes to their program...
By State Newswire | Jan 11, 2021
News Release: Washington-Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today released the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2021
News Release: Mention “human trafficking" in the same sentence with “Vermont," and the reaction may be one of surprise and disbelief. Although Vermont may seem insulated from such a horrendous and insidious crime, even in the Green Mountain State human trafficking is hidden in plain sight. As with most public health issues, awareness is key to the prevention of human trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS, MO - United States District Judge Catherine D. Perry accepted a plea, today, from Bernard Toler. The 33-year-old St. Louis County, Missouri resident pleaded guilty to one count of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 11, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) issued the following statement following his phone call with former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, whom President-elect Biden intends to nominate for U.S. Secretary of Energy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - A suburban Chicago man has pleaded guilty in federal court to laundering cash proceeds from a telemarketing scheme that defrauded elderly victims.
By State Newswire | Jan 11, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The State Department has announced its intent to designate the Houthis as a Foreign Terrorist Organization beginning on January 19th. The Houthis have committed horrifying acts of violence, including rampant human rights violations, kidnappings, missile and drone strikes, and threats to ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2021
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Damanya Terelle Carter, of Front Royal, Virginia, was sentenced to 12 months of incarceration for his role in a drug distribution operation, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2021
News Release: DES MOINES, Iowa - On Friday, January 8, 2021, United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey sentenced Jeffrey Scott Dworek, age 55, formerly of the Des Moines area, to 57 months in prison for mail fraud, announced Acting United States Attorney Richard D. Westphal. Following his prison term, Dworek was ordered to serve three years of supervised release. He was also ordered to pay over $1.6 million in restitution to Metro Waste Authority (MWA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former employee of the Orange Unified School District was sentenced today to 72 months in federal prison for distributing child pornography, specifically sending image and video files of explicit sexual conduct involving young children via the Kik instant messaging application.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DAVID WAGNER was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to 72 months in prison for securities fraud and wire fraud in connection with his operation of a number of corporate entities (collectively referred...
By State Newswire | Jan 11, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, U.S. Reps. Grace Meng (NY-06), Gregory Meeks (NY-05), and Barbara Lee (CA-13) issued the following statement after the U.S. Agency for International Development revealed its revised Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment policy which reverses decades of work by gender experts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 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 Interior Newswire | Jan 11, 2021
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management has concluded additional review of its land use plans for Greater sage-grouse habitat in seven states, issuing decisions which find that no further land use planning or environmental analysis is warranted. The decisions affirm the collaborative process...
