News published on Federal Newswire in January 2021

News from January 2021


What did Commerce Department publish on Jan. 25?

The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Jan. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: BANGOR, Maine: A Presque Isle man pleaded guilty in federal court today to conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.


Release: OMAHA, Neb. - A Sarpy County, Nebraska, man was stopped by the Transportation Security Administration with a.40 caliber handgun loaded with 10 bullets at the Eppley Airfield checkpoint on Friday, Jan. 22.


Release: United States Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL). Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): DRL Promoting and Protecting: Women’s Rights in Marriage; Free and Fair Elections; Rule of Law; and Marginalized Communities. This is the announcement of funding opportunity number...


Bookkeeper Charged with Fraud and Tax Evasion

News Release: BOSTON - The owner of a firm that provided payroll and payroll tax services to small businesses in New England was charged and agreed to plead guilty to a scheme to defraud her clients by diverting the funds set aside by her clients for payroll taxes.


News Release: House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) today announced the Democratic rosters for the House Appropriations Committee’s 12 subcommittees in the 117th Congress, including the Subcommittee Chairs and full Committee Vice Chair who were elected by the Committee’s Democratic Members.


Beggs Man Sentenced for Armed Robbery

News Release: A man was sentenced this morning after using a firearm to rob a Dollar General, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.


News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Jeffrey M. Nolan, 62, was arrested by federal agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) on Friday Jan. 22, 2021 at his home in Stowe, Vermont. He has been charged by a criminal complaint ...


Chairman Neal Statement on Janet Yellen’s Historic Senate Confirmation to be Treasury Secretary

News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA- Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after the U.S. Senate confirmed Janet Yellen to serve as Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury)...


West Virginia Woman Sentenced for Willful Retention of Top Secret National Defense Information and International Parental Kidnapping

News Release: West Virginia Woman Sentenced for Willful Retention of Top Secret National Defense Information and International Parental Kidnapping.


Dominican National Sentenced for Trafficking Kilos of Heroin and Cocaine

News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Dominican national that led a conspiracy that imported at least ten kilograms of heroin and five kilograms of cocaine from California, and who conspired with others to work at his direction to store, process, and package the drugs in an apartment he rented in West Warwick to be used as a stash house, has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison.


Release: Excellencies, Distinguished Delegates, Honorable Members of the International Survivors of Trafficking Advisory Council, Ladies and Gentlemen,


Five New Guilty Pleas In Nationwide Telemedicine Pharmacy Health Care Fraud Conspiracy

News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn.- Today, Larry Everett Smith, 50, of Tampa, Florida, pleaded guilty before Senior District Judge Ronnie Greer to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud. Sentencing has been set for Oct. 25, 2021 at 3:00 p.m., in United States District Court in Greeneville. Smith faces a term of up to 10 years in prison.


News Release: A Virginia man who sent harassing and intimidating emails directed toward Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum and his family was sentenced today in federal court, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.


News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Elizabeth Jo Shirley, of Hedgesville, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 97 months of incarceration for unlawfully retaining a document containing national defense information and 36 months of incarceration for committing international parental kidnapping. The sentences will run concurrently.


Former elementary teacher imprisoned for explicit sexual conversations originating via Craigslist

News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 28-year-old Odom man has been ordered to federal prison after he admitted to transferring obscene materials to a minor, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.


News Release: ST. LOUIS - U.S. District Judge Ronnie L. White sentenced LeVaughn Neal to 156 months in prison today. The 36-year-old St. Louis, Missouri, resident pleaded guilty in October to one count of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.


News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - David Clay Fowlkes, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced today that Donna Sara Daosavanh, age 33, was sentenced to 210 months in federal prison without the possibility of parole followed by five years of supervised release on one count of Distribution of Methamphetamine. The Honorable Judge Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearing today in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.


Denver Man Sentenced To Twelve Years In Federal Prison For Armed Carjacking and Bank Robbery

News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn announced that Aaron Dugar, age 35, of Denver, was sentenced to more than twelve years (147 months) in federal prison for his role in an armed carjacking and bank robbery. The sentence will be followed by three years of supervised release.


News Release: Dr. Nick Greenwood Pleads Guilty to a Felony Charge of Distribution of a Controlled Substance and Enters into a Civil Agreement with the United States to Permanently Cease Dispensing Controlled Substances and to Pay $500,000 in Penalties.