News from January 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal grand jury in Durham, North Carolina, returned an indictment yesterday charging a tax preparer with conspiring to defraud the United States, preparing false tax returns, filing a false personal tax return, and committing aggravated identity theft, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Matthew G.T. Martin for the Middle District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 22 unsealed Indictments charging 28 defendants. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Zjaondezel Solomyn Douglas, of Zelionople, Pennsylvania, has admitted to his role in a cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl distribution operation, U.S Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced the names of individuals who will hold key staff positions in Washington, D.C.
By State Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Acting Secretary of Homeland Security has issued a National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) Bulletin today after consultation with the intelligence community and law enforcement partners. There is currently a heightened threat environment across the United States that is likely to persist ...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, Jan. 27, 2021 — Due to the national public health emergency caused by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced the temporary suspension of past-due debt collections and foreclosures for distressed borrowers under the Farm Storage Facility Loan ...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, Jan. 27, 2021 — The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced the names of individuals who will hold key staff positions in Washington, D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: Three individuals associated with the Oath Keepers, a paramilitary organization focused on recruitment of current and former military, law enforcement, and first responder personnel, were indicted today in federal court in the District of Columbia for conspiring to obstruct Congress, among other charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: A federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment Tuesday charging a former media producer with extortion and obstruction of justice during a federal investigation in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Sixto Jorge Díaz Colón, 52, of San Juan, was charged with three counts of extortion and ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: A federal grand jury in Durham, North Carolina, returned an indictment yesterday charging a tax preparer with conspiring to defraud the United States, preparing false tax returns, filing a false personal tax return, and committing aggravated identity theft, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Matthew G.T. Martin for the Middle District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: A Florida man was arrested this morning on charges of conspiring with others in advance of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election to use various social media platforms to disseminate misinformation designed to deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: Epsilon Data Management LLC (Epsilon), one of the largest marketing companies in the world, has entered into a settlement with the Department of Justice to resolve a criminal charge for selling millions of Americans’ information to perpetrators of elder fraud schemes. Epsilon entered into a deferred ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: The Department of Justice today announced a coordinated international law enforcement action to disrupt a sophisticated form of ransomware known as NetWalker.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: A Mississippi businessman was charged with defrauding the United States and other health care providers in a $1.8 million scheme related to acquiring and hoarding personal protective equipment (PPE) and price gouging health care providers, including numerous U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals in critical need of PPE.
By Fed Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: The Federal Reserve is committed to using its full range of tools to support the U.S. economy in this challenging time, thereby promoting its maximum employment and price stability goals.
By Fed Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: The Federal Open Market Committee, at its annual organizational meeting this week, unanimously reaffirmed its "Statement of Longer-Run Goals and Monetary Policy Strategy." The reaffirmed statement is identical to the statement adopted in August 2020 following the Committee's review of its monetary policy ...
By State Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: AMBASSADOR SMITH: Good morning, everyone, and welcome. It is my honor and privilege today to welcome back to the Department of State our new Secretary of State Tony Blinken. Secretary Blinken is a familiar face in these halls having served previously first in the Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs ...
By State Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: On behalf of the Department of State, I offer my condolences to the people and government of Colombia on the death of Minister of Defense and former Minister of Foreign Affairs Carlos Holmes Trujillo García. With his passing, Colombia has lost a great patriot, leader, and statesman. The United States ...
By State Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke with French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian today to discuss ways to renew and further strengthen the Transatlantic relationship. The Secretary emphasized the U.S. desire to work with France, our oldest ...
