News from January 2021
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 11, 2021
News Release: HOUSTON - Officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) removed an unlawfully present Salvadoran national Friday wanted in El Salvador for aggravated homicide.
By State Newswire | Jan 11, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Michael McCaul (TX-10) has brought on Gaby Hurt to serve as the new House Foreign Affairs Committee press secretary. Hurt joins the committee from the White House, where she served as a press assistant. She previously worked for Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), and also served...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2021
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced today that AutoGenomics, Inc. has agreed to pay the United States $2,538,000 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute by engaging in a scheme to bill...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2021
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Devon Alexander Bertram, of Wheeling, West Virginia, has admitted to a drug charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2021
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Rebecca Church (619) 546-7721.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 2 years’ probation on her conviction of narcotics trafficking in connection with a large-scale investigation conducted by the Greater Pittsburgh Safe Streets Task Force, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2021
News Release: Defendant sentenced to a dozen years for sexual assault, faces additional federal time for tax fraud.
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 Interior Newswire | Jan 10, 2021
News Release: With the accumulation of sufficient snowpack, sledding runs (referred to as the Snowplay Area) at Paradise have been groomed and are ready for park visitors. While beautiful, the greater Paradise area contains avalanche zones, unstable snow bridges and deceptively steep drop offs where sledding activities are unsafe. The official Snowplay Area is the safest and only location that sledding is permitted in Mount Rainier National Park.
By State Newswire | Jan 10, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - In 2019, House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul introduced the Taiwan Assurance Act, a bipartisan, bicameral bill requiring the State Department to reassess self-imposed restrictions on U.S. relations with Taiwan. The Act became law in December 2020, and this week, the State Department took action to lift all such restrictions. Lead Republican McCaul made the following statement...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 10, 2021
News Release: Rangers at Mount Rainier National Park today recovered the body of Constance Markham, 65, of Eatonville, Washington, from a steep slope below Ricksecker Point in the southwest corner of the park. Markham’s accidental fall was reported at 12:30 pm yesterday. Searchers located her in steep, hazardous terrain and confirmed that she was deceased. A ground team returned to the area today and she was recovered using a helicopter to complete the extrication.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Two men 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 9, 2021
News Release: A spokesperson for the Department of Justice issued the following statement: “Please be advised that the information circulating on social media claiming to be from Acting Pardon Attorney Rosalind Sargent-Burns is inauthentic and should not be taken seriously. "The Justice Department’s Office of the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2021
News Release: Law Enforcement Appreciation Day. WILMINGTON, Del. - As this week’s events in D.C. once again demonstrate, we are a nation of laws. And it falls to our law enforcement officers to fairly discharge their responsibilities and enforce our laws. In Delaware, we are fortunate to have an extraordinary group...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2021
News Release: "Dear Maine Law Enforcement Partners: I write in honor of Law Enforcement Appreciation Day. Now more than ever, it is important to acknowledge those who wear a uniform, preserve the peace, and maintain law and order. Your doing so enables us to enjoy the liberties we cherish, and that the rest of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2021
News Release: Today, I ask all Idahoans to join me in saluting law enforcement officers throughout Idaho.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Three men 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 Homeland Newswire | Jan 8, 2021
News Release: Today, Acting DHS Secretary Chad F. Wolf met with His Highness (H.H.) Amir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and His Excellency (H.E.) Qatari Prime Minister, and the Minister of Interior, Sheikh Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdulaziz Al Thani, to discuss 21st century regional solutions addressing aviation ...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 8, 2021
News Release: ReConnect Funding to Connect 4,312 Rural Households to High-Speed Internet e-Connectivity WASHINGTON, Jan. 8, 2021 – The Trump Administration today announced that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $16 million to provide broadband service in unserved and underserved rural areas in Illinois, Oregon and South Carolina. This investment is part of the $550 million Congress allocated to the second round of the ReConnect Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2021
News Release: Former Hamtramck police office Ryan McInerney, 44, pleaded guilty today in federal court in the Eastern District of Michigan to using excessive force against a civilian arrestee and violating the arrestee’s civil rights.
