News from February 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2021
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - An Atlanta man, Tramone Brandon Horne, 36, was sentenced to 270 months in federal prison on Friday, by U.S. District Judge Robert E. Wier, after previously admitting to engaging in a conspiracy to distribute aggravated amounts of methamphetamine throughout Whitley, Laurel, and Knox Counties.

By State Newswire | Feb 26, 2021
Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Good morning. Great to see you, Marcelo.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 26, 2021
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Civil Rights and Human Services Subcommittee Republican Leader Russ Fulcher (R-ID) sent a letter to U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Chair Charlotte Burrows requesting information about her questionable and rushed decision to end the Commission’s successful mediation and conciliation pilot programs.

By State Newswire | Feb 26, 2021
Release: MR GREEN: Good afternoon. Hello and bonjour, Secretary - Mr. Secretary. It’s a pleasure to meet you. My name is Geoff Green, and I’m the founder and the president of the Students on Ice Foundation. I am joining you today from the National Capital Region of Canada, here in Gatineau, Quebec. And I’d like...

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2021
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - David Edward Allanson, of Parkersburg, West Virginia, has admitted to drug trafficking, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2021
News Release: Charges are result of investigation following June 2019 crash that killed seven motorcyclists in New Hampshire.

By State Newswire | Feb 26, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - House Foreign Affairs Lead Republican Michael McCaul today submitted two amendments to the reconciliation package after the committee was not able to hold a markup of the International Affairs title of the legislation.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2021
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Clark Downs of Port Saint Joe, Florida, was sentenced today to 25 years in federal prison following his conviction for producing and possessing child pornography. Lawrence Keefe, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced the sentence.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Wilson Davis, 25, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, was sentenced on Feb. 23 in federal court to two years in prison for sexually abusing a child in Indian Country. Upon completion of his prison sentence, Davis will be subject to five years of supervised release and will be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2021
News Release: MACON, GA: Twelve defendants have been charged in a newly unsealed federal indictment alleging a middle Georgia drug trafficking conspiracy.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2021
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - United States District Court Judge David J. Hale sentenced Louisville physician Peter Steiner to 60 months’ imprisonment to be followed by three years of supervised release for knowingly and intentionally distributing and dispensing Schedule II, Schedule III and Schedule IV controlled...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2021
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Tae Ryung Yoon, aka Thomas Yoon, 64, Yoo Jin Management Company, Ltd. and Mush Inn Corporation were sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Joshua M. Kindred today, for asbestos work violations under the Clean Air Act.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2021
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Mark Andrew Yatulchik, of Shinnston, West Virginia, has admitted to drug and firearms charges, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2021
News Release: The Tenure of United States Attorney John Huber Spanned Three Presidential.

By State Newswire | Feb 26, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul has released the following statement on the now declassified report on the murder of Jamal Khashoggi and the announcement of the new “Khashoggi Ban.".

By State Newswire | Feb 26, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Gregory W. Meeks and Lead Republican Michael McCaul released the following statement on the seventh anniversary of Russian aggression in Ukraine.

By Interior Newswire | Feb 26, 2021
News Release: Taos, N.M. - Beginning March 15, the Bureau of Land Management Taos Field Office plans to conduct a 1,000-acre prescribed burn at Cerro del Aire (or Wind Mountain), northeast of Tres Piedras, N.M. The planned burn operations are within the Río Grande del Norte National Monument.

By USDA Newswire | Feb 26, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON- House Agriculture Committee Chairman David Scott issued the following statement in support of the American Rescue Plan Act...

By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2021
News Release: Rep. Estes: Pelosi’s Payout “Unrelated to COVID-19 and Unnecessary".
By State Newswire | Feb 26, 2021
Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: And our colleagues are here.