News from January 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), Geraldine Hart, Commissioner of the Suffolk County Police Department (“SCPD"), and Errol...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: A six-time convicted violent felon who was found in possession of a sawed-off rifle was sentenced today in federal court, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) released the following statement on President Joe Biden’s new environmental executive orders.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH- A resident of Point Marion, PA, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of kidnapping, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: A man was sentenced this morning after unlawful and fraudulent use of immigration documents, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By State Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today joined U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), and Senate colleagues in reintroducing the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. This bipartisan bill will ensure that goods made with ...
By State Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
Release: Host Børge Brende, President World Economic Forum Geneva: I am so delighted to welcome former secretary of state and special presidential envoy for climate, my dear friend John Kerry. John has been a leader on climate change for decades. One of the crowning achievements that I saw myself was of course...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: National Award for Stanley Weber Prosecution is Highest Honor given by the Department of Justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Darius Jondi Edwards (42, Tampa) has pleaded guilty to manufacturing counterfeit Federal Reserve notes. He faces up to 20 years in federal prison and payment of restitution to the victims he defrauded. Edwards is currently on federal supervised release and faces an additional...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: Galveston, TX - During the dates of January 05 through Jan. 15, the U.S. Marshals Service’s Gulf Coast Violent Offenders and Fugitive Task Force personnel from Galveston partnered with state and local agencies to conduct Operation Washout, a U.S. Marshals Service national initiative focused on the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Eduardo Enrique Zazueta, 27, of Albuquerque, appeared in federal court Jan. 13, charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Wilmington man was sentenced today to 84 months in prison for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) questioned Jennifer Granholm, President Biden’s nominee to be the next secretary of energy. Granholm testified before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - In a civil complaint filed in the Eastern District of California, the United States alleges that Lawrence Howen and the pharmacy he owns, Nor-Cal Pharmacies Inc. doing business as Lockeford Drug, unlawfully dispensed controlled substances from 2016 through 2019, in violation of the Controlled Substances Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: BROOKLYN, NY - A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Douglass Mackey, also known as “Ricky Vaughn," with conspiring with others in advance of the 2016 United States Presidential Election to use various social media platforms to disseminate misinformation designed...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: MACON, Ga. - A Charleston, South Carolina, woman is facing a maximum eight years in prison for attacking a postal worker, said Peter D. Leary, the Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that GARY JOSEPH GRAVELLE, also known as Roland Prejean, 53, last residing in New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to 110 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: Washington D.C- Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) today issued the following statement regarding President Biden’s moratorium on new energy leasing and permitting on federal lands.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) delivered the following remarks at a hearing entitled, “Hearing to Consider Nomination of the Honorable Jennifer Granholm to be the Secretary of Energy."
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) today announced an extension of the flexibilities in rules related to Form I-9 compliance that was granted earlier this year. Due to the continued precautions related to COVID-19, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will extend this policy until March 31, 2021.
