News from January 2021
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 20, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) released the following statement on President Biden’s legislative proposal pushing amnesty for 11 million illegal immigrants while containing no reforms to address the issues fueling the border crisis.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 20, 2021
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) announced plans to make $8 million in Federal funding available for cost-shared research, development, and testing of technologies that can utilize carbon dioxide (CO2) from power systems or other industrial sources for bio-mediated uptake by algal systems to create valuable products and services.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A professor and researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in connection with failing to disclose contracts, appointments and awards from various entities in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to the U.S. Department of Energy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Mexican national who pleaded guilty to a federal racketeering offense and admitted participating in a scheme to launder drug trafficking proceeds - which included attempting to purchase a bank to facilitate the money laundering - was sentenced today to 87 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of McKeesport, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 5 years and 1 day of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release on his conviction of narcotics trafficking and possession of a firearm in furtherance of his narcotics trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2021
News Release: A Tulsa man pleaded guilty in federal court to multiple drug offenses including distribution of methamphetamine and heroin, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 20, 2021
News Release: BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, TEXAS - Future park visitors will have another opportunity to get up, get out and enjoy the wide-open spaces of Big Bend when work is completed on a new hiking trail next year. The Lone Mountain Trail will circumnavigate the base of Lone Mountain, an imposing feature just north of park headquarters at Panther Junction.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - A convicted felon from Chicago has been sentenced to eleven years in federal prison for illegally possessing a loaded gun and offering to pay witnesses to lie on his behalf.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 20, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that it is partnering with Youngstown State University and DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to advance workforce development for the battery manufacturing industry. The $1 million project will assist in the development of an Energy...
By State Newswire | Jan 20, 2021
Release: The State Department’s International Disability Rights team leads Department efforts to encourage and assist foreign governments and civil society organizations to increase their commitment and capacity to protect the rights, and ensure the inclusion and full participation of, persons with disabilities. Located in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, Office of Multilateral and Global Affairs, the International Disability Rights team works to...
By State Newswire | Jan 20, 2021
Release: The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom on May 28, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2021
News Release: Collected images of child rape and abuse via peer-to-peer file sharing program.
By State Newswire | Jan 20, 2021
Release: More information about Uzbekistan is available on the Uzbekistan Page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Srinivas Kancha, age 52, of Selkirk, New York, was charged today with conspiring to defraud his former employer, the Office of the New York State Comptroller (OSC).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2021
News Release: Defendant, While Seated in the Courtroom Gallery, Used Hand Gestures To Threaten a Testifying Witness.
By State Newswire | Jan 20, 2021
Release: Major Non-NATO Ally (MNNA) status is a designation under U.S. law [1] that provides foreign partners with certain benefits in the areas of defense trade and security cooperation. The Major Non-NATO Ally designation is a powerful symbol of the close relationship the United States shares with those countries...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced that U.S. District Judge Brian A. Jackson sentenced Hugo Gomez, age 34, of Laredo, Texas, to 240 months in federal prison following his convictions for possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, possession of a firearm...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2021
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Last week, Jose Rosalio Fuentes, 58, of Nogales, Arizona, was sentenced to 30 months in prison by United States District Court Judge Rosemary Marquez. Fuentes previously pleaded guilty to Bribery of a Public Official.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2021
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford has returned an indictment charging DAVID BURDEN, 40, of Norwalk, with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
