News from April 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert for the District of the Virgin Islands announced today that Lenroy Ravalier, Jr. pleaded guilty to bank fraud.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $5.3 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Russell Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Atlanta, Georgia, to improve and expand the...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.8 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to Big Sky Economic Development Corporation, Billings, Montana, to capitalize and administer a Revolving...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chair Mike Doyle (D-PA), Communications and Technology Ranking Member Bob Latta (R-OH), Senator Ed Markey (D-MA), and Senator John Thune (R-SD) released the following joint statement in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that unwanted text messages do not violate the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s protections against robocalls...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - A man admitted in federal court today that he threw a lit firework into a Chicago Police vehicle during a period of civil unrest in downtown Chicago last May.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chair Mike Doyle (D-PA), Communications and Technology Ranking Member Bob Latta (R-OH), Senator Ed Markey (D-MA), and Senator John Thune (R-SD) released the following joint statement in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that unwanted text messages do not violate the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s protections against robocalls...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: The Mass Mail Fraud Scheme Targeted Seniors and Swindled Victims Nationwide.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chair Mike Doyle (D-PA), Communications and Technology Ranking Member Bob Latta (R-OH), Senator Ed Markey (D-MA), and Senator John Thune (R-SD) released the following joint statement in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that unwanted text messages do not violate the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s protections against robocalls...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: WILMINGTON, NC - Jason Hyland, 39, of Duplin County, was sentenced yesterday to 134 months in prison for Conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and distribute 500 grams or more of a mixture and substance containing methamphetamine and possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of a mixture and substance containing methamphetamine.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: The scientists and engineers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM) are environmental professionals who see site closure as a measure of success because it means “mission accomplished." Case in point: hydrogeologist Julian Caballero, the Legacy Management Strategic Partner (LMSP) site lead for the Pinellas County, Florida, Site.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: 4/8/2021. FAA Statement on Backup Power Control Unit Manufacturing Issue. Boeing notified the FAA late Thursday that it is recommending that operators of certain Boeing 737 MAX airplanes temporarily remove them from service to address a manufacturing issue that could affect the operation of a backup ...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and House Judiciary Committee Republican Leader Jim Jordan (R-OH) are leading legislation that will continue to keep fentanyl-related substances in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. In addition, the Leaders are calling on Democrats in Congress to work with Republicans to make this move permanent.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $4.5 million grant to the Southern Boone County R-1 School District, Ashland, Missouri, to construct the Ranken-Ashland Skilled Trade Training Facility,...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and William S. Walker, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Boston, today announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford has returned an indictment charging ROBERT ECKERT, 56, of Simsbury, with distribution of child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $9 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to help the state of Michigan prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce 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 legislative hearing on Thursday, April 15, at 10:30 a.m. (EDT) on several environmental...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: SPRINGDALE, UT - Zion National Park closed Angels Landing Trail Wednesday, April 7, 2021 for maintenance on the chain sections of the trail. The closure is being extended to Saturday, April 10. The West Rim Trail is open to Scout Lookout (where Angels Landing Trail begins). The Angels Landing Trail should reopen by 4:30 PM MDT on Saturday, April 10, 2021.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
Release: Remarks as Delivered by Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm
By USDA Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on five produce businesses for failing to meet contractual obligations to the sellers of produce they purchased and failing to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA). These sanctions...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Alex Pazmino, age 36, of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on April 6, 2021, to 78 months’ imprisonment and a 4-year term of supervised release by United States District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani for conspiring to distribute over 500 grams of methamphetamine.
