News from January 2021
By USDA Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) designated 17 New York counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in who suffered losses caused by recent natural disasters may be eligible for USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: For Producing Child Pornography. HAMMOND - Jerry James, age 65, of Hobart, Indiana was sentenced before U.S. District Court Judge Theresa L. Springmann upon his plea of guilty to production of child pornography, announced Acting United States Attorney Bell. James was sentenced to 240 months’ imprisonment...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former Comerica bank branch manager was sentenced today to 41 months in federal prison for stealing more than $1 million from an elderly customer with dementia, and then using it for her own personal benefit, including to finance her gambling.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that Douglas Wesley, 32, of Charleston, was sentenced to six months in federal prison for walking away from a halfway house earlier this year. The six month term of imprisonment is to run consecutively to any discharged portion of the sentence in Wesley’s underlying 2012 federal gun conviction.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: Release Date: Jan. 25, 2021. Contacts: SER_Communications@nps.gov. Charles_Lawson@nps.gov, NPS Denver Service Center, 303-969-2436. National Park Service invites public input on Ocmulgee River Corridor Special Resource Study. ATLANTA - Today, the National Park Service (NPS) launched public commenting...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Highmore, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person, Sale or Transfer of Firearms to a Prohibited Person, and False Statements During Purchase of a Firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: West Palm Beach, FL. - West Palm Beach federal prosecutors have charged three defendants with conspiring to distribute over 30 pounds of crystal methamphetamine. The three defendants are Mexican nationals. Two of the defendants made their initial appearances today in federal magistrate court in West Palm Beach. The third defendant made his initial appearance on Friday, Jan. 22, before a federal magistrate judge in Wisconsin, where he was arrested.
By State Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Lead Republican Michael McCaul and Chairman Gregory W. Meeks of the House Foreign Affairs Committee released a joint statement praising the decision by Kelu Chao, acting CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) to name three highly-qualified individuals as the heads of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Three Colombian nationals pleaded guilty today to possessing with the intent to distribute nearly 1,500 kilograms of cocaine when they were interdicted in an unregistered vessel on the Pacific Ocean.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: San Francisco, CA - Continuing on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021 at 12pm, one of the Bay Area’s most beloved musical traditions is live from - your own home! Long a monthly “landmark" aboard San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park’s historic ships, the multi-generational gathering has adapted to...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: Los Alamos, NM - Beginning Feb. 1, 2021, Bandelier National Monument will join many other national park sites in the modernization of their fee collection programs by transitioning to charge card only payments for park entrance fees, campground fees, and Interagency Pass purchases.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty pleas of SHADOR TOMMIE CORTEZ JACKSON, 24, and LEROY LEMONTE PERRY WILLIAMS, 34, to one count each of conspiracy to commit arson of the Target Corporation’s corporate headquarters building located at 1000 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, Minnesota. JACKSON and WILLIAMS are scheduled to be sentenced on May 4 and May 18, 2021, respectively, before Judge Patrick J. Schiltz in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: HOUSTON - The Southern District of Texas (SDTX) has lost a valued Assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA) with 40 years of service spanning eight presidential administrations, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Gretchen C.F. Shappert, United States Attorney for the District of the Virgin Islands, and Tyler R. Hatcher, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), Miami Field Office, made the announcement today in an effort to prevent taxpayers from falling victim to criminals engaged in fraud schemes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that Emmanuel Lee Whitfield, 25, of Huntington, was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for distribution of heroin.
By State Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
Release: On behalf of the government and people of the United States, I extend warm greetings to the people of Australia as you commemorate this year’s Australia Day.
By State Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Representatives Michael McCaul (TX-10) and John Katko (NY-24), the lead Republicans on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the House Committee on Homeland Security, launched an oversight inquiry into an unprecedented insider threat that has compromised the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty pleas of SHADOR TOMMIE CORTEZ JACKSON, 24, and LEROY LEMONTE PERRY WILLIAMS, 34, to one count each of conspiracy to commit arson of the Target Corporation’s corporate headquarters building located at 1000 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, Minnesota. JACKSON and WILLIAMS are scheduled to be sentenced on May 4 and May 18, 2021, respectively, before Judge Patrick J. Schiltz in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Steven D. Weinhoeft, announced today that seven alleged members of the violent Gangster Disciples gang, including top national and state leaders, have been charged in a federal indictment accusing them of a years-long interstate...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 25, 2021
News Release: MORENO VALLEY, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management is hosting several virtual public and stakeholder meetings to gather input on the development of off-highway vehicle (OHV) grant proposals for submission to the California State Parks, Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation (OHMVR) Division. Grant applications are currently being prepared by BLM staff for the 2021 grant cycle.
