News from April 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: BANGOR, Maine: A New York man was sentenced today in federal court for possessing cocaine base and fentanyl with intent to distribute, Acting U.S. Attorney Donald E. Clark announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ANTHONY HALL, 60, of Montville, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to one count of bank robbery.
By State Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Chairman Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY) introduced a resolution condemning the genocide being committed by the People’s Republic of China (PRC), under the direction and control of the Chinese Communist Party, against...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 14, 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 released the below statement following her vote opposing Brenda Mallory as Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ)...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: Brianna Clarisse Banks, 24, pleaded guilty to theft of government money today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Roy Payne.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Michael Sparano, age 30, of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, was indicted on April 13, 2021, by a federal grand jury for drug trafficking and firearm offenses.
By State Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
Release: Today the U.S. Department of State announces a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of Audias Flores-Silva, a high-level member of the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG - Jalisco New Generation Cartel). This reward offer complements the Department...
By State Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Representative Gregory W. Meeks issued the following statement regarding the Biden administration’s decision to proceed with weapons sales to the UAE, lifting its pause on the previous administration’s agreements...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - THEODORE KEYS, age 40, a resident of New Orleans, was sentenced on April 13, 2021 for conspiracy to commit bank larceny, announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans. KEYS was sentenced to 24 months in prison, 1 year of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. He was also ordered to pay $39,324 in restitution to Capital One Bank for damage caused to the ATM machine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A Washington County, Oregon man pleaded guilty today for using stolen bank checks and debit cards to defraud local residents and illegally possessing distribution quantities of methamphetamine, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Scott Erik Asphaug.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) announced today that the Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee will hold a fully remote hearing on Thursday, April 29, on President Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) budget request for fiscal year 2022. EPA Administrator Michael Regan will testify.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: Extreme heat kills more Americans than any other weather event, but not everyone’s risk is the same. Within the same city, some neighborhoods can be up to 20°F hotter than others and, due largely to the practice of historic redlining - discriminatory, race-based lending and housing policies in the 1930s - these hot spots are often home to poorer communities of color.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening remarks, as prepared, during the markup of H.R. 1333, the National Origin-Based Antidiscrimination for Nonimmigrants (NO BAN) Act...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chair Mike Doyle (D-PA) announced today that the Communications and Technology Subcommittee will hold a fully remote hearing on Wednesday, April 21, at 11:30 a.m. (EDT) on ensuring a secure and coordinated wireless network future. The hearing is entitled, “Leading the Wireless Future: Securing American Network Technology."
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: Quarryville Business Owner Supplied Hundreds of Workers to Mushroom Farms in Chester County.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Todd Michael Hensley, of Anderson, South Carolina, was sentenced today to 120 months of incarceration for drug and firearms charges, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: Norfolk, Virginia - Volunteer agencies play a key role in the vaccination efforts at the FEMA-supported Community Vaccination Center at Military Circle Mall. By working alongside federal, Commonwealth and local staff, organizations like the veteran-led Team Rubicon and regional leader in volunteerism...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Monmouth County, New Jersey, man today admitted to knowingly receiving child pornography, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Jason Timothy Henry, of Wheeling, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 60 months of incarceration for a drug charge, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) participated in a hearing on substance use disorders becoming worse because of the COVID-19 pandemic. He urged the Democrats to join Republicans in combating fentanyl-related substances...
