News from January 2021
By DOE Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a fully remote hearing on Tuesday, Feb. 2, at 11 a.m. (EST) on COVID-19 vaccine distribution and administration. The hearing is entitled, “No Time to Lose: Solutions to Increase COVID-19 Vaccinations in the States."
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: PIKEVILLE, Ky. - A South Carolina man, Jonathan Edward Manigault, 36, was sentenced on Monday to 480 months in federal prison, by U.S. District Judge Karen Caldwell, for one count of production of child pornography and one count of knowingly receiving child pornography.
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 Commerce Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a fully remote hearing on Tuesday, Feb. 2, at 11 a.m. (EST) on COVID-19 vaccine distribution and administration. The hearing is entitled, “No Time to Lose: Solutions to Increase COVID-19 Vaccinations in the States."
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: AUDREY STRAUSS, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the unsealing of a Complaint in Manhattan federal court charging...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: For Receipt of Child Pornography. SOUTH BEND - Kenneth Hyatt, age 53, of Claypool, Indiana was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge Damon R. Leichty upon his guilty plea to receipt of child pornography, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Bell. Mr. Hyatt was sentenced to 293 months in prison...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Jan. 20, 2021, a federal grand jury returned a six-count indictment charging Carlos Osorio-Pérez, Luz Damaris Pérez-Velázquez and Onyx Yerielle Olivera-Rivera in a conspiracy to obtain firearms in Florida and sell them in Puerto Rico, all without a license. Members of the conspiracy would mail firearms from Florida to Puerto Rico and send thousands of dollars from Puerto Rico to Florida.
By State Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: KENNEWICK, Wash., -- Frank A. Tarentino, Special Agent in Charge of the Seattle Field Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and William D. Hyslop, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington presented the Tri-City Metro Drug Task Force with $132,876 in asset forfeiture equitable sharing funds. Kennewick Police Chief Ken Hohenberg, Governing Board Chair of the Metro Drug Task Force, accepted the funds on behalf of the task force.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, U.S. 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"), and Dermot Shea, the Commissioner of the Police Department for the City of New York (“NYPD"), announced...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: A bill to enable the use of Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funds to incentivize the early completion of critical runway and airport projects has been introduced in the House by Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) and senior Committee Member Garret Graves (R-LA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: A woman who stole nearly $232,000 from her employer over a two-year period and signed a false income tax return was sentenced today in federal court, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Santiago JonDaniel “Hush" Rooks, 21, of Albuquerque, made his initial appearance in federal court on Jan. 25 where he was charged with carjacking, brandishing a firearm during the commission of a violent crime and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Rooks will remain detained pending a preliminary hearing scheduled for Jan. 27.
By Commerce 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: Indictment Alleges Scheme to Fraudulently Charge Hundreds of Thousands of Mobile Phone Customers for Text Messaging Services Without Their Knowledge or Consent.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
Release: NORFOLK, Va.-Transportation Security Administration officers at Norfolk International Airport stopped a gun from getting through the checkpoint on Friday, Jan. 22. The.45 caliber handgun was loaded with eight bullets. It was the second gun caught at the airport so far this month.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: Grote had previously been convicted for conspiring to manufacture and distribute meth.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: Ocala, FL - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return of a two-count indictment charging Brandon Barnes (29, Lecanto) with possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon and possessing an unregistered National Firearms Act weapon (sawed-off shotgun). If convicted, Barnes faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison on each count. The indictment also notifies Barnes that the United States intends to forfeit the firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Matthew Scott Upton, of Philippi, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 70 months of incarceration for methamphetamine and firearms charges, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: ELY, Nev. - Weather permitting, the Bureau of Land Management Ely District this Tuesday through Friday, January 26-29, will burn slash piles of pinyon pine and juniper on public lands near Cattle Camp, Quaky Spring, and Monument and Sawmill canyons in south Steptoe Valley.
