News from January 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Florida man pleaded guilty today to his role in a multi-million dollar Medicare fraud scheme involving durable medical equipment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - U.S. Attorney Andrew E. Lelling announced today that the District of Massachusetts collected more than $235 million in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2020. Of this amount, $208,282,537 was collected in civil actions, including $77,933,472 in restitution for crime victims, and $27,194,175 was collected in criminal actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: Approximately 200 pills containing fentanyl were mailed to Utqiagvik from Arizona through U.S. Postal Service.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: Washington -The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) entered into a stipulation agreement with Jody Pinkert (Pinkert) of Lubbock, Texas, on Dec. 11, 2020, for violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act. Under the terms of the stipulation agreement, Pinkert waived his rights to a hearing and paid a penalty of $1,000.
By State Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
Release: We condemn in the strongest possible terms today’s terrorist attacks in Baghdad. The dual bombings killed at least 32 people and injured many more. They were vicious acts of mass murder and a sobering reminder of the terrorism that continues to threaten the lives of innocent Iraqis. We extend our deepest condolences to the families of the victims and hope for a speedy recovery of those wounded.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: Jackson, TN -Danny Joe Ivy, 55, of Buena Vista, Tennessee, has been indicted for selling a firearm to a convicted felon and making false statements to a federal law enforcement agent. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the filing of the indictment today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - This afternoon, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) will introduce the Emergency Pension Plan Relief Act of 2021 - an updated version of the Butch Lewis Act - legislation to address the worsening multiemployer pension crisis that threatens the savings of more than...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Gretchen C.F. Shappert, United States Attorney for the District of the Virgin Islands, announced today that Charlie Manuel Castillo Borg, 27, a citizen of the Dominican Republic with no legal status in the United States, was sentenced to time served in custody. He has been detained under custody by local and federal authorities since Dec. 31, 2019. The defendant was also ordered to forfeit the firearm he unlawfully possessed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Ingvue Buchanan, 57, Jamestown, NY, who was convicted of being a felon-in-possession of a firearm, was sentenced, by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr., to serve 36 months in prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: It’s cool to be small. Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have miniaturized the optical components required to cool atoms down to a few thousandths of a degree Celsius above absolute zero, the first step in employing them on microchips to drive a new generation of super-accurate atomic clocks, enable navigation without GPS, and simulate quantum systems.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today,House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) issued the following statement on the Department of Interior’s (DOI) 60-day ban on oil and gas leases on all federal lands and waters.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced the Reduce the Risk of Ransomware Campaign today, a focused, coordinated and sustained effort to encourage public and private sector organizations to implement best practices, tools and resources that can help them mitigate this cybersecurity risk and threat.
By State Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
Release: The following joint statement was issued by the Governments of France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.
By State Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
Release: We condemn in the strongest possible terms today’s terrorist attacks in Baghdad. The dual bombings killed at least 32 people and injured many more. They were vicious acts of mass murder and a sobering reminder of the terrorism that continues to threaten the lives of innocent Iraqis. We extend our deepest condolences to the families of the victims and hope for a speedy recovery of those wounded.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Congresswoman Grace F. Napolitano (D-CA) released the following statements applauding President Biden for prioritizing Federal agency scrutiny of the Trump administration’s “Dirty Water...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - As part the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California’s strategy to reduce violent crime by focusing on firearms prosecutions, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced that a federal grand jury returned indictments in the following cases involving firearms offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Jontae Carlos Sandifer was sentenced today to 138 months in prison for possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, possession with the intent to distribute heroin, and being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, announced United States Attorney David...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: Jackson, TN -Danny Joe Ivy, 55, of Buena Vista, Tennessee, has been indicted for selling a firearm to a convicted felon and making false statements to a federal law enforcement agent. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the filing of the indictment today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: MISSOULA - A Manhattan man who was convicted at trial of providing false information on a form when trying to buy a firearm was sentenced today to 13 months in prison and three years of supervised release, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif Johnson said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS, MO - United States District Judge Catherine D. Perry sentenced James Lamont Fields to 120 months in prison today. The 23-year-old St. Louis, Missouri resident pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and one count of felon in possession of a firearm.
