News from April 2021
By DOE Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing titled, “The CLEAN Future Act and Environmental Justice: Protecting Frontline Communities:"
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: HARRISBURG - As the April 24th Drug Enforcement Agency’s (DEA) 20th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day approaches, Acting United States Attorney Bruce D. Brandler urges the public to participate in the biannual event and remove dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs from your home, where they could be stolen or abused by family members and visitors, including children and teens.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $824,000 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the National World War II Museum, Inc., New Orleans, Louisiana, for campus site improvements and for audio and visual technical systems. This EDA grant, to be matched with $230,945 in local investment, is expected to create 63 jobs, retain 7 jobs, and generate $350,000 in private investment.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: Business was Used by Russian Organization that Targeted 2016 Presidential Election.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - The U.S. Attorney’s Office is partnering with law enforcement and others in the community in the Northern District of West Virginia to recognize overdose victims as a part of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following remarks, as prepared, at a press conference announcing the introduction of the Judiciary Act of 2021...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing titled, “The CLEAN Future Act and Environmental Justice: Protecting Frontline Communities:"
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Republican staff circulated a memo on Big Tech to Energy and Commerce Committee Republican members’ staff, stakeholders, and the public. The memo outlined several legislative concepts and is intended to start a considerate, inclusive, and transparent dialogue as Committee staff consider and develop legislation under the Big Tech Accountability Platform.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: Glen Jean, West Virginia -New River Gorge National Park and Preserve will be increasing access to campgrounds this weekend with the reopening of six additional areas in the park including Army Camp, Brooklyn, Gauley Tailwaters, Meadowcreek, Thayer, and War Ridge. Grandview Sandbar, Glade Creek, and Stone Cliff Campgrounds remain open for a total of nine areas in the park where camping is available.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Republican staff circulated a memo on Big Tech to Energy and Commerce Committee Republican members’ staff, stakeholders, and the public. The memo outlined several legislative concepts and is intended to start a considerate, inclusive, and transparent dialogue as Committee staff consider and develop legislation under the Big Tech Accountability Platform.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested one of ICE’s 10 Most Wanted in New Jersey Wednesday, a previously removed, aggravated felon from Guatemala, convicted of child endangerment involving the production of child pornography, with outstanding warrants for a parole violation and failure to register as a sex offender.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: ELY, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management is masticating, or mechanically shredding pinyon-pine and juniper to re-establish sagebrush communities, improve wildlife habitat and reduce fire potential on 450 acres of recently-seeded public land in Egan Basin, 50-plus miles north of Ely, Nev.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. B A Camden, New Jersey, man was arrested this morning for fraudulently obtaining more than $150,000, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 15, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today hosted a press conference along with Senator Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) focused on infrastructure. During the press conference, Senator Capito and her Republican colleagues mapped out what a real bipartisan infrastructure package should look like.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA -Rodriquies M. Evans and Cedric L. Douglas, both of Columbus, Ohio, were sentenced to a combined 104 years in prison today for their roles in a methamphetamine distribution operation that spanned multiple states, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A San Gabriel Valley man was sentenced today to 18 months in federal prison for sending hundreds of messages over several years to two victims, including a teenage girl, demanding they engage in sex acts with him and threatening to physically harm or kill them if they refused.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced today that charges were filed against four men for smuggling and concealing approximately $1.28 million dollars. Geraldo Alverio Morales, Jesus Javier Lebron Pinto, and Alcibiades Flis Batista were arrested Wednesday evening...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: A Welch cattleman who defrauded First State Bank of Commerce pleaded guilty Friday in federal court, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Michael Shirley, age 28, of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, was indicted on April 13, 2021, by a federal grand jury for drug trafficking and firearms offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: DANVILLE, Va. - Authorities in Durham County, North Carolina arrested Jorge Navarro, a former teller at URW Community Federal Credit Union in Danville, after two years of flight on federal charges of embezzling $617,000, Acting United States Attorney Daniel P. Bubar and Special Agent in Charge Gerald W. Page of the Secret Service’s Richmond Field Office, announced today.
