News from January 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2021
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Every January, the U.S. Attorney’s Office joins communities around the state in observing Law Enforcement Appreciation Day to honor the distinguished service and tremendous personal sacrifice of Oregon’s law enforcement officers. This year’s observance takes place on Saturday, January 9, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2021
News Release: Authorities Also Found One Assault Rifle and Three Handguns.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 8, 2021
News Release: BATTLE MOUNTAIN, Nevada - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Battle Mountain District is notifying the public that the Battle Mountain District Resource Management Plan amendment and Oil & Gas Leasing Environmental Assessment is being rescinded. The Battle Mountain District will notify the public in a subsequent release, in the near future, when it will be made available for public comment.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 8, 2021
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement regarding the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) December 2020 jobs report...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 8, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Department of the Interior officials joined Governor Brad Little for a virtual event finalizing the transfer of ownership of federal irrigation facilities and supporting lands to two local irrigation districts that currently operate and maintain a portion of the southeastern...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 8, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Rob Portman (R-OH), leaders of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Roy Blunt (R-MO), leaders of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, released the following statement announcing...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 7, 2021
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on the need for social media platforms to ban President Trump...
By State Newswire | Jan 7, 2021
News Release: Washington-Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today released the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Passaic County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 63 months in prison for conspiring to distribute fentanyl and distributing fentanyl, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Passaic County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 63 months in prison for conspiring to distribute fentanyl and distributing fentanyl, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 7, 2021
News Release: REDDING, Calif., -- The Bureau of Land Management has named Dereck C. Wilson, a natural resources manager with a decade of northern California experience, as manager of the Northern California District.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2021
News Release: “We have received a number of leads and tips regarding yesterday’s events at the Capitol Building. Working with our law enforcement partners, we are actively investigating the information we have obtained. Should we determine that there is a legal nexus between the crimes committed at the Capitol and...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 7, 2021
News Release: ReConnect Funding to Connect 1,326 Rural Georgia Households to High-Speed Internet e-Connectivity CLAXTON, Ga., Jan. 7, 2021 – The Trump Administration today announced that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $4.6 million to provide broadband service in unserved and underserved rural areas in Georgia. This investment is part of the $550 million Congress allocated to the second round of the ReConnect Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2021
News Release: “Yesterday, our Nation watched in disbelief as a mob breached the Capitol Building and required federal and local law enforcement to help restore order. The Department of Justice is committed to ensuring that those responsible for this attack on our Government and the rule of law face the full consequences ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2021
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment charging Surgical Care Affiliates LLC and its related entity (collectively SCA), which own and operate outpatient medical care centers across the country, for agreeing with competitors not to solicit senior-level employees, the Department of Justice announced today. These are the Antitrust Division’s first charges in this ongoing investigation into employee allocation agreements.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2021
News Release: Assistant Attorney General Eric S. Dreiband of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division announced his departure from the department, effective Jan. 8, 2021. Dreiband has served as Assistant Attorney General since Nov. 1, 2018. “It has been the honor of a lifetime to serve as Assistant Attorney ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2021
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has opened an investigation into the use of pepper spray at two juvenile correctional facilities run by the Nevada Juvenile Justice Services Agency: the Nevada Youth Training Center and the Summit View Youth Center. The investigation will examine whether staff at the two facilities use pepper spray in a manner that violates youth’s rights under the Constitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2021
News Release: The Boeing Company (Boeing) has entered into an agreement with the Department of Justice to resolve a criminal charge related to a conspiracy to defraud the Federal Aviation Administration’s Aircraft Evaluation Group (FAA AEG) in connection with the FAA AEG’s evaluation of Boeing’s 737 MAX airplane.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2021
News Release: A Bangladeshi national formerly residing in Monterrey, Mexico, was sentenced to 46 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his role in a scheme to smuggle aliens from Mexico into the United States.
By Fed Newswire | Jan 7, 2021
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the execution of the enforcement action listed below: Consent prohibition against Carolyn E. Flynn Former employee Community Financial Services Bank, Benton, Kentucky Unsafe and unsound lending and customer information practices Search of Federal Reserve enforcement actions.
