News from January 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Homestead, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of violating federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA. - A resident of Braddock, PA, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal firearms and narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Zaiqua Acosta, age 22, of Albany, was sentenced today to 32 months in prison for unlawfully possessing a firearm and ammunition as a felon.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: Congratulations to Chief Ranger/Pilot Scott Sample, the 2020 recipient of the National Park Service (NPS) Wright Brothers National Aviation Safety Award, which was presented to him on Tuesday, January 26 in Fairbanks, Alaska. This award "recognizes an individual or organization within the NPS at the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Michael Eco Hutke Haney, age 23, of Henryetta, Oklahoma entered a guilty plea to Attempted Sexual Abuse in Indian Country, Sexual Abuse in Indian Country, and Abusive Sexual contact of a child in Indian Country. Each count is punishable by any period of any term of years of imprisonment or for life, a fine up to $250,000.00, or both.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: Congratulations to the four participants selected for the 2021 Artist-in-Residence (AiR) program at Capitol Reef National Park. Since 2017 the AiR program has successfully recruited artists of many disciplines to share their interpretation of Capitol Reef with the public. “Especially now, during the pandemic, art can bring joy to our lives" says Penni Torgerson, AiR Coordinator. Here are the 2021 AiR participants.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: Washington - 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 and the Direct...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month. As a founding member of the Maryland Human Trafficking Task Force, the Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office pledges to continue to combat human trafficking by working with our partners to investigate and prosecute traffickers and rescue victims.
By State Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
Release: MR PRICE: Good afternoon. Welcome back to the briefing room, to your briefing room. We’ll be spending quite a bit of time together starting very shortly, and I very much look forward to that. But today, first, I have the privilege of introducing for the first time to this room the 71st Secretary of State, Mr. Tony Blinken. So with no further ado, I turn it over to him.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA-Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement announcing his selection of Beth Bell to serve as the staff director of the Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee...
By State Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today convened a full committee nomination hearing for the Honorable Linda Thomas-Greenfield, nominee to be the representative of the United States of America to the United Nations, with the rank and status ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, PA has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, CALIFORNIA, Jan. 27, 2021-A new micronutrient- and fiber-packed bar that improves metabolic health markers from cholesterol to blood sugar to inflammation is now on the market. The new bar is based on a unique formula developed by scientists with USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and the Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - United States District Court Judge Stephen R. Clark sentenced Joshua Braman to 120 months in prison today. The 37-year-old Crystal City, Missouri resident previously pleaded guilty to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm, specifically a sawed-off shotgun.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - 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 DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Zaiqua Acosta, age 22, of Albany, was sentenced today to 32 months in prison for unlawfully possessing a firearm and ammunition as a felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: Member of Kidnapping Plot Admits Guilt, Promises to Cooperate with Government.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - JUSTIN PIERCE, age 22, a resident of Slidell, pled guilty on Jan. 26, 2021 to conspiracy to commit bank larceny, announced U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser. PIERCE faces 5 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, 1 year of supervised release and a $100 special assessment. Sentencing is scheduled for April 27, 2021 before the Honorable Susie Morgan.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - David Bentley, 29, of Rutland, Vermont pleaded guilty in federal court on Tuesday to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
