News from January 2021
By DOJ Gazette | Jan 26, 2021
The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Jan. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) released the following statement after the Committee held a full committee briefing with agencies involved in the response to the insurrection on January 6.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A Texas man has pleaded guilty to violent gang-related activities in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting United States Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei and Nicholas L. McQuaid, Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Jacob Montague, 35, of Wilson, North Carolina, was charged by Indictment for the attempted kidnapping of one woman, and the kidnapping of a second woman in Center City Philadelphia in late 2020. The defendant is currently in custody and will have his initial appearance in federal court on Friday, January 29; the government will be moving for detention pending trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MARQUES MILTON, also known as “Biz," 36, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 48 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possession of a firearm.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - A crew at EM’s West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) recently conducted several mock-up sessions in which employees practiced properly suiting up before entering the Main Plant Process Building to prepare it for future demolition.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that Leo James Chaplin, 62, of Anchorage, was found guilty of International Parental Kidnapping after a two-day federal bench trial. Chaplin was charged by criminal complaint June 23, 2017 in the District of Alaska and later indicted by a federal grand jury on Oct. 18, 2019. Sentencing is scheduled for April 28, 2021 before United States District Court Judge Sharon L. Gleason.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Burlington County, New Jersey, man today admitted attempting to interfere with law enforcement officers during a civil disorder when he attempted to set fire to a police vehicle during a riot in the City of Trenton, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By State Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Lead Republican of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Michael McCaul released the following statement following the confirmation of Antony Blinken to serve as Secretary of State.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: Corpus Christi, TX - Providing vital support to Padre Island National Seashore (PAIS) during the COVID-19 epidemic, Texas State Aquarium (TSA) became the second Aquarium-Park Partnership (APP) to participate in a joint initiative of National Park Service (NPS) and Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA)...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: Swindled over $3M from Older Homeowners in Durham, Orange, and Chatham Counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A California man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Worcester to federal tax and fraud charges arising from his role with various Worcester-based employment agencies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Lorenzo Watson, 29, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of possessing with intent to distribute cocaine, and possession of a firearm and ammunition by a felon, was sentenced to serve 67 months in prison by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: MONTROSE, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Uncompahgre Field Office is seeking public comment on a proposal from the Cimarron Mountain Club (CMC) for a Special Recreation Permit (SRP) to conduct commercially guided hikes, snowshoeing, skiing, snowboarding, and avalanche mitigation on public lands in Montrose County. CMC is a private club and residential community in the south San Juan Mountains, ten miles northeast of Ridgway.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that on Jan. 26, 2021, Steven R. Brandenburg (age: 46) of Grafton, Wisconsin, signed a plea agreement acknowledging that he was guilty of attempting to render hundreds of doses of COVID-19 vaccine ineffective, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1365.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Canonsburg, PA, has been sentenced in federal court to 42 months’ imprisonment on his conviction of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribute crack cocaine, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: DOE recently announced the recipients of the Secretary’s Honor Awards, and three EM teams - two from the Hanford Site and one from Oak Ridge - were recognized for their contributions.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA- Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement regarding President Biden’s executive order directing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force to consider issuing guidance on best practices to advance cultural competency, language access, and sensitivity towards Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) in the COVID-19 response...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau released the total number of 2020 Census paid temporary workers that earned any pay Jan. 10 - Jan. 16, 2020. The data tables include national totals for all 50 states and the District of Columbia by Census Bureau regional geography. A weekly number of paid temporary workers for Puerto Rico is also available. The weekly release will occur 10 days after the end of the weekly period.
