News from January 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Cesar Pena, 28, of Strathmore, was sentenced Friday by U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd to three years and one month in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: EUGENE, Ore.-A former Eugene elementary school teacher pleaded guilty today for sexually abusing a minor female, announced U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: Contractor and affiliates to pay more than $3 million to resolve overbilling scheme involving government-funded construction projects.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers apprehended two criminal aliens, both convicted and registered sex offenders, during targeted enforcement actions in El Monte and Pomona, California, Jan. 11.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
Release: (Washington, D.C., Jan. 19, 2021) - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue issued the following statement after signing a with the Assistant Secretary for Health and Head of the Public Health Service Admiral Brett Giroir, M.D., establishing a regulatory environment at the Department of Agriculture for agricultural animal biotechnology innovation: Read more on USDA's Newsroom
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.4 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT), Denver, Colorado, to support...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - United States Attorney Stephen J. Cox announced that he will step down from his post as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas (EDTX) effective 11:59 p.m. today, January 19.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: Defendant Lobbied U.S. Officials, Published Books and Articles Advancing Iranian Viewpoints While Secretly Employed by the Iranian Mission to the United Nations.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation released a summary report providing an assessment of climate change impacts to water uses in the West, including adding a new set of West-wide information based on paleohydrology. The Water Reliability in the West - 2021 SECURE Water Act Report discusses changes and innovative actions across the eight basins identified in the SECURE Water Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Aberdeen, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of a Controlled Substance was sentenced on Jan. 14, 2021, by U.S. Magistrate Judge William D. Gerdes.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement following Treasury Secretary-Designate Janet Yellen’s nomination hearing...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: TEXARKANA, Texas - A 32-year-old Maud, Texas man has been charged with allegedly filing bank loan applications fraudulently seeking more than $5 million dollars in forgivable loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, announced Eastern District of Texas U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox today.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) today announces the deregulation of petunia varieties, designated as A1-DFR, developed using genetic engineering to produce orange flowers.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: Fruita, CO - A multi-agency team rescued a hiker with serious injuries yesterday. At approximately 12:40 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 18, 2021 Colorado National Monument rangers were notified of an injured hiker that fell in No Thoroughfare Canyon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia and the FBI affirmed their commitment today to holding accountable anyone who, in connection with tomorrow’s presidential inauguration, commits acts of violence or otherwise violates federal law in the Eastern District of Virginia, including at the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), the top Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement urging the Senate to swiftly vote on the confirmation of Alejandro Mayorkas as Secretary of Homeland Security...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: ST. PAUL, Minn. - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers removed an unlawfully present Salvadoran national Friday, who is wanted in his home country for charges of aggravated murder, attempted murder and terrorism.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN - On Jan. 14, 2021, a jury found Javontae Quintez White, 28, of Grand Rapids, guilty of distributing a fatal dose of the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl to a Grand Rapids woman, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge. The victim, who died in July 2018, was 33 years old at the time of her death.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Jesse Moses Escano, 22, of Fresno, was sentenced on Friday by U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd to three years and three months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross today announced the seven grant recipients of the Economic Development Administration’s (EDA) STEM Talent Challenge to boost local science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) talent.
