News from January 2021

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A New York Life insurance broker today admitted his role in a scheme to fraudulently use his association with the company to solicit investor money, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: Kennewick, Washington. Spokane - William D. Hyslop, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, and Frank A. Tarentino III, Special Agent in Charge of the Seattle Field Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, announced today and presented the Tri-City Metro Drug Task...

By DOE Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: Today, Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, Chairman Bobby L. Rush of the Committee on Energy and Commerce’s Subcommittee on Energy, Chair Kathy Castor of the U.S. House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, and Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney of the Committee on Oversight...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Earlier today in the District of Columbia, Haitham Isa Saado Sad, 42, pleaded guilty to several charges related to his role in a scheme to steal U.S. government records and defraud U.S. refugee programs. Defendant Sad remains held without bond pending sentencing.
By State Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
Release: The text of the following statement was released by the G7 foreign ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and the High Representative of the European Union.

By Commerce Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: California, Iowa, Indiana, Louisiana, Missouri, North Carolina, New York, Ohio and Oregon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - The U.S. Marshals intensified their search for a convicted murderer who escaped from a Texas prison in 2010.

By Commerce Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Chair Kathy Castor of the U.S. House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and Chairman Bobby L. Rush of the Committee on Energy and Commerce's...

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: Terry was arrested after reports he had assaulted his girlfriend with a handgun.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: ABINGDON, Va.- Stacey Pomrenke and her husband Kurt Pomrenke were sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Abingdon for conspiring to defraud the United States while Stacey Pomrenke was on pre-trial release. Acting United States Attorney Daniel P. Bubar, David W. Archey, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Richmond Division, and Kelly R. Jackson, Special Agent in Charge of Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigations, made the announcement today.
By State Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
Release: The text of the following statement was released by the G7 foreign ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and the High Representative of the European Union.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: CODY, Wyo. - Three hazardous mines abandoned 50 years ago were successfully reclaimed in 2020 in Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains, thanks to a shared commitment from the Bureau of Land Management and the State of Wyoming to enhance public safety and improve the health of public lands.

By State Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.

By Interior Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, Wyo. - Ninety-two volunteers spent the morning of January 9, 2021 searching for bald and golden eagles across the Powder River Basin as part of the nationwide midwinter bald eagle survey, coordinated locally by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Buffalo Field Office. Volunteers counted 524...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Butler, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of wire fraud related to his theft of corporate funds from his former employer, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Bonnie Dennee, 66, Phillips, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to five months in federal prison, followed by a three-year term of supervised release, for...

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK -Elijah Torres, age 30, of Schenectady, New York, was charged earlier this month with unlawfully possessing a loaded 9mm pistol as a felon.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Joshua Lee Rutherford, of Linn, West Virginia has admitted to his role in a methamphetamine and fentanyl distribution operation, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: Federal Agent Allegedly Misappropriated a Suspect’s Identity to Create False Identification Documents and Submitted Forged Documents to Purchase a Manhattan Co-op Apartment.

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.