News from April 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jonathan D. Larsen, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (“IRS-CI"), and Margaret Garnett, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Investigation...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: JUNEAU - Jeremy Beebe, 47, of Sitka, Alaska, was sentenced today to 78 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for illegally possessing firearms.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Ranking Member of the Commerce, Science, & Transportation Committee, Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), Ranking Member of the Banking, Housing, & Urban Affairs ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina --- Acting United States Attorney M. Rhett DeHart announced today that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of South Carolina and the Department of Justice’s Office for Victims of Crime is joining communities nationwide in observing National Crime Victims’ Rights Week...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: Five Individuals Charged for Roles in $65 Million Nationwide Conspiracy to Defraud Federal Health Care Programs.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today released the following opening statement at the hearing to consider the nomination of Dr. Jewel H. Bronaugh to be Deputy Secretary of Agriculture.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement on President Biden’s commitment to cut U.S. emissions in half by 2030...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, delivered the following remarks at a hearing entitled, “U.S.-China Relations: Improving U.S. Competitiveness Through Trade.".
By DOE Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) announced today that the Health Subcommittee will hold a fully remote legislative hearing on Tuesday, May 4, at 11:30 a.m. (EDT) on legislation to lower the cost of prescription drugs for the American people. The hearing is entitled, “Negotiating a Better Deal: Legislation to Lower the Cost of Prescription Drugs."
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A 33-year-old Brownsville resident has been taken into custody after being on the run from law enforcement for the past year, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON- U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, released the following opening remarks, as prepared, from the hearing to consider the nomination of Dr. Jewel Bronaugh to be deputy secretary of agriculture...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) announced today that the Health Subcommittee will hold a fully remote legislative hearing on Tuesday, May 4, at 11:30 a.m. (EDT) on legislation to lower the cost of prescription drugs for the American people. The hearing is entitled, “Negotiating a Better Deal: Legislation to Lower the Cost of Prescription Drugs."
By USDA Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON- U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, released the following opening remarks, as prepared, from the business meeting to consider S. 1251, the Growing Climate Solutions Act of 2021...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: BAR HARBOR, ME - Acadia National Park is one of 32 parks and park partners to receive an Open OutDoors for Kids Hybrid Learning grant from the National Park Foundation (NPF), which works in partnership with the National Park Service and the park partner community to ensure that national parks reach their...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in support of President Biden’s new commitments under the Paris Climate Agreement...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, secured commitments from Kiran Ahuja, the nominee to be Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), that if confirmed, she would work to ensure that federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: Hot Springs, Arkansas - David Clay Fowlkes, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Steven Mark Zuber, age 57, of Hot Springs, Arkansas, was sentenced on April 20, 2021 to 216 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release on one count...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: Spokane - Joseph H. Harrington, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Reynaldo Perez Munoz, age 41, of Pasco, Washington, was sentenced after having pleaded guilty on Aug. 28, 2020, to Conspiracy to Distribute 50 Grams or More of Actual (Pure) Methamphetamine, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Richard G. Frohling of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that on April 21, 2021, a jury seated in the federal district court in Green Bay, found Lonel L. Johnson, Jr., (age: 44) guilty of possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, two counts of possession of a firearm by a felon, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Mike Braun (R-IN), and Gary Peters (D-MI) today announced they are reintroducing legislation to apply Buy America rules to all taxpayer-funded infrastructure...
