News from April 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2021
News Release: FAIRBANKS - Robert J. Albaugh, 58, of North Pole, Alaska, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Fairbanks for violating the Lacey Act and other federal laws stemming from the illegal hunting of caribou and moose after fraudulently obtaining federal subsistence permits.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 29, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today applauded the Senate passage by a 89-2 vote of S. 914, the Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act (DWWIA), bipartisan legislation to invest in our nation's water infrastructure.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is investing $4 million in the state of Alabama to make critical infrastructure improvements needed to support current and future business needs.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2021
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A 40-year-old resident of Brownsville has been ordered to federal prison following his role in trafficking more than 1000 kilograms of cocaine involving $26 million in drug proceeds, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 29, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced its commitment to advancing two tobacco product standards to ban menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 29, 2021
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released a new report,, highlighting innovative opportunities to spur joint research on hybrid energy systems. These opportunities could drive the production of valuable fuels, chemicals, and products, provide greater cost savings, increase grid flexibility, and enhance environmental performance across a range of DOE-funded technologies.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 29, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Republican Leader Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) sent a letter to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan asking for transparency...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2021
News Release: A Chicago man who distributed heroin to a person who died from using it, was convicted by a jury today, after a three-day trial in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2021
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A former soldier in the Army National Guard pleaded guilty in federal court today to sexually abusing four minors over several years while he was director of the youth ministry at Fort Leonard Wood U.S. Army Base.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Twelve people have been charged for their roles as members and associates of “Harlem World/12th Avenue," a Paterson, New Jersey-based street gang involved in the distribution of drugs, including cocaine base, heroin, and fentanyl, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2021
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal judge this week sentenced a Tuscaloosa man for being a felon in possession of a machine gun, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Mickey French.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today as prepared for delivery at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing titled, “The Fiscal Year 2022 EPA Budget:"
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Mark Anthony Hill, 33, of Smith Lake, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, was sentenced on April 28 in federal court to three years in prison for assault resulting in serious bodily injury in Indian Country. Hill pleaded guilty to the crime on Dec. 14, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2021
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury indicted three Madera residents today, charging Emilio Hernandez Yesca, 27; Jorge Perez, 24; and Jorge Luis Hernandez Gonzalez, 30, with trafficking fentanyl and methamphetamine, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Jaziz Jesahias Cea, 23, formerly of Galt, pleaded guilty today to transportation of child pornography and receipt of child pornography, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2021
News Release: GREENVILLE, South Carolina - Acting United States Attorney M. Rhett DeHart announced today that the United States Attorney’s Office secured two guilty verdicts in two separate cases, on the same day, in the same courtroom, and before the same judge. Specifically, separate federal juries convicted Zavien Lenoy Canada, 38, and Kendrick Omar Cobb, 31, both of Greenville, each for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced its commitment to advancing two tobacco product standards to ban menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2021
News Release: Sparta, Ill. - Kory R. Schulein (37), of Sparta, Illinois, pleaded guilty today to knowingly.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - In an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan, Subcommittee on the Environment and Climate Change Republican Leader David B. McKinley (R-WV) advocated for the need to both unleash innovation in carbon capture technology and protect pipeline workers in America.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Stoughton man was arrested yesterday and charged with illegal possession of firearms.
