News from January 2021
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is working with federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, the aviation community, and the National Football League to ensure safe, secure and efficient operations before, during and after Super Bowl LV. The Super Bowl will be held Feb. 7, 2021, at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - The former mayor of Atlantic City was sentenced today to 30 days in prison and 11 months of home confinement for defrauding contributors to a youth basketball team out of more than $86,000, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury has returned a one-count indictment against Jatinbhai Naresh Bhakta, 29, and Roy Gene Drees, 45, both of Bakersfield, charging them with use of facilities of interstate commerce in aid of a racketeering enterprise, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
Release: The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) honored the Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority (PSTA) with the prestigious Gold Standard Award virtually at a meeting of the transit agency’s Board of Directors on January 27th. TSA Tampa Federal Security Director Kirk Skinner presented the award virtually to PSTA’s Chief Executive Officer Brad Miller.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement in response to President Biden announcing an executive order asking the Department of Health and Human Services to review the Trump Administration’s rule gagging Title X-funded health care providers from discussing abortion.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: Three defendants have been charged via criminal complaints for their roles in two separate Unemployment Insurance benefit fraud schemes, announced United States Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), and House Education and Labor Committee Ranking Member Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) sent a letter to the President of the University of Pennsylvania, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: WILMINGTON, N.C. - Ashley Shackelford, 35, of Duplin County, was sentenced yesterday to 90 months imprisonment for: (1) Conspiracy to Possess with the Intent to Distribute and Distribute 500 grams of a mixture and substance containing Methamphetamine; and (2) Possess with the Intent to Distribute of 500 grams of a mixture of substance containing Methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: ATLANTA - Six individuals, who operated as part of a larger group, have been indicted for fraudulently obtaining approximately $1.5 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans on behalf of five businesses based in Georgia and South Carolina. Five others involved in this scheme have already pleaded guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: WILMINGTON, N.C. - A La Grange, North Carolina man, Osvaldo Fuentez-Buentello, age 49, was sentenced yesterday to a total of 148 months in prison for conspiracy to possess and possess with the intent to distribute five (5) kilograms or more of cocaine, fifty (50) grams or more of a mixture and substance...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the follow activity.
By State Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, were joined by Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), ranking member and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A California man who had fled to Mexico has been arrested for his role in a conspiracy to steal credit and debit cards from customers at approximately 80 Michaels’ Stores in 19 states and to then use that information to make fraudulent withdrawals from the bank accounts of those customers, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced today.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.- Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), incoming Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, led every Democrat in Congress in reintroducing the Paycheck Fairness Act, legislation that would strengthen the Equal Pay Act of 1963, help eliminate the gender wage gap, and guarantee that women can challenge pay discrimination and hold employers accountable.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: Kelly Thornton (619) 546-9726. NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY - Jan. 28, 2021. SAN DIEGO - U.S. Attorney Robert Brewer has released the office’s 2020 Annual Report, which details its major cases and achievements during a year that posed unprecedented challenges to law enforcement and federal court operations...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after President Biden signed two executive orders this afternoon strengthening access to quality, affordable health care for the American people...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, incoming Senate HELP Committee Chair Patty Murray (D-WA), House Committee on Education and Labor Chairman Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (VA-03), Congressman Andy Levin (MI-09), Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01), Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), and Senator Tina Smith (D-MN) introduced legislation...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, Ga. - A Nashville, Georgia felon on active probation pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, said Peter D. Leary, the Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: MISSOULA - Three men suspected in an illegal border crossing into Montana near Eureka and arrested after a high-speed pursuit had initial appearances today on criminal complaints, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif Johnson said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Nevada man was charged in an indictment Wednesday for his alleged participation in a scheme to defraud multiple financial institutions by filing bank loan applications that fraudulently sought more than $1.9 million dollars in forgivable loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
