News from April 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening remarks during a Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship hearing entitled "'Why Don't They Just Get in Line?' Barriers to Legal Immigration...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Norfolk, Virginia - Hampton Roads residents have until May 1 to get their first free Pfizer vaccine at the FEMA-supported Community Vaccination Center in Military Circle Mall. Second doses are currently being administered at the center through May 22.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: A federal judge sentenced Lakeway resident 49-year-old Robert “Scott" Villarreal to 87 months of imprisonment for a scheme to embezzle millions of dollars from a company headquartered in Austin where his ex-wife served as Chief Financial Officer.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Voyageurs National Park staff are actively placing hazard markers and other buoys within park boundaries. Park staff will make every effort to place buoys in a timely manner for the upcoming 2021 summer season.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday today sentenced Simon Keith Angaran (50, Tampa) to five years and four months in federal prison for conspiracy to make and pass counterfeit Federal Reserve notes and for making counterfeit Federal Reserve notes.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.) today joined Newsmax to discuss how enhanced unemployment benefits are making it difficult for businesses to hire workers and how legislation she introduced with Ways and Means Committee Republican Leader Kevin Brady would get Americans back into the workforce by turning the extra payments into return-to-work bonuses.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Tonight, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the statement below following President Biden’s Joint Address to Congress...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Opening remarks, as prepared, of Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) and Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Ranking Member Daniel Webster (R-FL) from today’s hearing entitled, “Investing in America: Reauthorization of the Economic Development Administration":
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Seattle man was sentenced today to 4 years and eight months in federal prison for stealing victims’ identities, using those identities to steal vehicles from car dealerships in several states, and then selling these vehicles to unwitting buyers, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Christopher Chiou for the District of Nevada and Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse for the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal grand jury yesterday indicted two former employees of a Birmingham-area Chick-fil-A restaurant franchise, alleging that they conspired to defraud their former employer, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and U.S. Secret Service Special Agent in Charge Patrick M. Davis.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: A Sapulpa man scheduled to begin trial Tuesday in federal court opted instead to plead guilty to sexually abusing a young child, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on April 27, 2021, Michael Jones, Jr, age 40, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury for drug trafficking and firearms offenses.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: BILLINGS, Mont. - Hellgate Road and Campground will reopen to vehicle traffic April 30, 2021 at 4:30 p.m. Some campground loops will remain closed to pour concrete bases for fire rings, set picnic tables, and to install curb stops at campsites. All campground loops will reopen following the completion of construction in early to mid-May.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis Holmes announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on April 26, 2021, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: SEATTLE ‒ Every 99 minutes, about one worker suffers fatal injuries and fails to return home safely at their work day’s end. That’s 15 workers a day, 100 a week, more than 5,200 a year - a frightening reality, but one that the nation’s employers can change by following workplace safety and health standards and regulations.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A federal jury convicted a federal inmate housed at the Federal Correctional Institution in Butner, North Carolina (“FCI Butner I") with participating in a mutiny inside a federal penal institution.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Brady Calls Biden Tax Hikes an “Economic Blunder".
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - A Pendleton man was sentenced to 30 years for several counts of sexual exploitation of a child, coercion and enticement of a child, and possession of child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Today the U.S. Census Bureau released a new set of “demonstration data" to help the data user community evaluate the latest update to the new Disclosure Avoidance System that will protect published 2020 Census Public Law (P.L.) 94-171 Redistricting data. The demonstration data use previously released...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Beckley, West Virginia, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges related to five thefts of specialized mine equipment that occurred in Indiana and Armstrong Counties, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
