News from April 2021
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: A dozen Members of Congress today, led by Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Subcommittee Ranking Member Rick Crawford (R-AR), wrote to Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Pete Buttigieg detailing their concerns with providing any additional federal funds to California’s high speed...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Jan Sharp announced that Anthony Wayne Hall, 65, was found guilty today, following a three-day jury trial in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska, for Aggravated Bank Robbery. The Honorable Robert F. Rossiter, Jr., scheduled Hall’s sentencing for July 9, 2021, at 11:00 a.m. Hall faces the potential for life in prison under the federal “three strikes" law, with a mandatory minimum of ten years.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced the 2021-crop loan rate differentials for upland and extra-long staple cotton, which are applied to the crop loan rate to determine the per bale actual loan rate.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: The owner of a for-profit trade school has been convicted of bilking the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs of $72 million and of misleading student veterans, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Pryor man who admitted beating and strangling a woman on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation was sentenced today to 34 months in prison and to three years of supervised release, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif Johnson said.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - On Thursday, April 15, 2021, United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey sentenced Jaterius Deshawn Davis, age 22, of Davenport, to 140 months in prison for Possession with Intent to Distribute Cocaine Base, Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - This week, 22 Republican members introduced the Building United States Infrastructure through Limited Delays and Efficient Review (BUILDER) Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: A Lubbock man who twice escaped from law enforcement custody has been sentenced to more than 35 years in federal prison for gun and drug crimes, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that CHRISTY BARTHOLOMEW, age 39, of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, was charged on April 14, 2021 in a two-count Bill of Information with wire fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: ROSWELL, N.M. - Due to high fire danger and prolonged drought, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is implementing fire restrictions on BLM-managed lands within the Ft. Stanton-Snowy River Cave National Conservation Area and public land tracts surrounding the community of Lincoln. The restrictions will go into effect on April 16, 2021, at 8 a.m. and will remain in place until further notice.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Celeste Pang, 42, of Olivehurst, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. to six months in prison and a $2,000 fine for embezzlement of mail by postal employee, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: REGION 1 - Vermont will receive $ 104,438,131 from FEMA to support the State with emergency protective measures to store, handle, transport, distribute, and administer the COVID-19 vaccine in accordance with their Vaccination Plan. These funds are being awarded to support the Vermont Agency of Human Services in order to address this immediate threat to life and public safety.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Derek Bluford, 34, of Sacramento, was sentenced today to seven years in prison for wire fraud, money laundering, obstruction of a federal investigation, and making false statements, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of the City of Pittsburgh pleaded guilty in federal court to a violation of the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act (commonly known as RICO), Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: ST. GEORGE, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is considering leasing and subsequently patenting 10.87 acres of public land to the Washington County Water Conservancy District to serve as a camping and recreation area adjacent to a proposed reservoir near the junction of Interstate 15 and State...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Eugene Jamar Thomas, 42, Of Rochester, NY, was arrested and charged by complaint with submitting false claims to the Internal Revenue Service. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), delivered the following remarks at a full committee hearing to examine the leading role of the Department of Energy in American energy innovation.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: FAIRBANKS - A Kalskag, Alaska, man was sentenced to four years and three months in prison followed by three years of supervised release and $1,900 in restitution to the victim of the stolen vehicle.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: Today, in federal court in Brooklyn, United States District Judge Eric N. Vitaliano entered a Default Judgment and Partial Decree of Forfeiture authorizing the seizure and forfeiture of five pieces of real property located in and around Guadalajara, Mexico. These properties, described in the civil forfeiture...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Ashley Johnson, of Morgantown, West Virginia, has admitted to her role in methamphetamine, crack cocaine, fentanyl, and heroin drug distribution operation, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
