News from April 2021
By State Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis Holmes announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota, man convicted of Assaulting, Resisting and Impeding a Federal Officer was sentenced on April 19, 2021, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - On Wednesday, April 21, 2021, United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose sentenced Ismael Salazar Montes, age 30, of Nogales Sonora, Mexico, to 160 months in prison for Illegal Reentry, Possession with Intent to Distribute Controlled Substances, and Illegal Alien in Possession...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: Jackson, TN - Reggie Carnell James, Jr., 26, of Denmark, Tennessee, has been sentenced to 100 months in federal prison for being a convicted felon-in-possession of a firearm. Acting U.S. Attorney, Joseph C. Murphy Jr., announced the sentence today.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), along with 30 Republican lawmakers, wrote U.S. Postal Service (USPS) Postmaster General Louis DeJoy demanding a briefing on the Internet Covert...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal jury in Greeneville, Tennessee, convicted a U.S. citizen today of conspiracy to steal trade secrets, economic espionage and wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Yankton, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of a Controlled Substance was sentenced on April 19, 2021, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas man was sentenced on Wednesday to 13 years in federal prison for selling methamphetamine and firearms, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Christopher Chiou for the District of Nevada, Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse for the FBI, and Special Agent in Charge Patrick Gorman of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: Washington - Today, in honor of Earth Day 2021, Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development Justin Maxson announced the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $487 million in critical infrastructure that will help communities in 45 states (PDF, 595 KB) build back better and stronger...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that GREAT LAKES DREDGE & DOCK COMPANY, LLC (“GREAT LAKES"), a Texas company, was charged today with violating the Clean Water Act in connection with an oil spill in 2016.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Chair Earl Blumenauer announced today that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing on “Advancing U.S. Economic Competitiveness, Equity, and Sustainability Through Infrastructure Investments" on Thursday, April 29, 2021, at 1:30 PM EDT.
By State Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today led 20 colleagues in a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressing concern for the administration’s recent decision to resume U.S. foreign assistance funding to the United Nations ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Five individuals have been charged and two others have pleaded guilty in New Jersey for their roles in massive durable medical equipment and genetic cancer screening kickback fraud schemes, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued the following statement on the House floor in support of H.R. 51, the Washington, D.C. Admission Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to eight years (96 months) in prison on his conviction of possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - Christopher Neil McLean, age 47, of Elizabethtown, North Carolina was sentenced April 19, 2021 in Federal District Court in Raleigh. McLean was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison on three counts of an indictment charging: conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Ramsey E. Covington, Acting Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, today announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford has returned a 14-count indictment charging TORISE BAKER, 37, of Bridgeport, with tax fraud offenses.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - This week, more than 75bipartisan members of the U.S. House of Representativesintroduced the Trillion Trees Act.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today spoke on the House floor in opposition to H.R. 51, the Democrats’ unconstitutional bill to grant D.C. statehood. In his opening statement, Ranking Member Comer criticized Democrats for forcing through an unconstitutional bill simply to consolidate power and outlined H.R. 51’s constitutional flaws, including the need for a constitutional amendment to grant the District statehood.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: Lake Powell boaters are advised the Stateline Launch Ramp will open for the season on Monday, April 26. The Stateline Launch Ramp is located at the Utah-Arizona border and is accessed off Highway 89 between Page and Greenehaven, Arizona. Boaters are asked to avoid the fenced construction zone located...
