News from February 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2021
News Release: WAYCROSS, GA: An indictment recently unsealed in U.S. District Court alleges a drug trafficking conspiracy was responsible for distributing deadly addictive drugs that led to overdoses.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal firearms laws, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 11, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will hold a public webinar to present its recently-released Noise Research Portfolio and Neighborhood Environmental Survey on Monday, Feb. 22, 2021, at 6: 0 p.m. ET.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 11, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.5 Million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the St. Louis Regional Convention and Visitors Commission, St. Louis, Missouri, to aid in the re-opening of the region’s tourism economy. This EDA grant, to be matched with $250,000 in local investment, is expected to create 637 jobs and retain 81 jobs.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 11, 2021
News Release: Cedar City, Utah - The National Park Service (NPS) issued the pre-solicitation notice to construct a new visitor contact station at Cedar Breaks National Monument giving interested local and national companies an opportunity to prepare their bid on the project. NPS expects to release the formal solicitation...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that AMIT AGARWAL, the operator of an international wholesale consumer electronics business based in New Jersey, pled guilty to participating in a conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmission business that operated primarily between Colombia and the United States. AGARWAL pled guilty before United States District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Union County, New Jersey, man who owned and operated contracting businesses in Essex County, New Jersey, today admitted filing false tax returns that failed to report all his personal and corporate income, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2021
News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Christian Torruellas, 28, of Newark, New Jersey, appeared in United States District Court in Burlington today on a charge that he possessed a firearm as a convicted felon. U.S. Magistrate Judge John M. Conroy ordered that Torruellas be held without bail until his next hearing next week.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2021
News Release: A Tulsa man was in federal court today to plead guilty to domestic violence allegations, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Joseph Matney, 40, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, pleaded guilty in federal court on Feb. 4 to armed robbery of a pharmacy, theft of medical products and possession with intent to distribute Oxycodone and Alprazolam.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger announced that he will resign from his position as the chief law enforcement officer for the Eastern District of Wisconsin on Feb. 20, 2021. After his departure, Krueger plans to join a private law firm. Richard G. Frohling, who has served as the First Assistant U.S. Attorney during Krueger’s tenure, will become the Acting U.S. Attorney.
By State Newswire | Feb 11, 2021
Release: On Feb. 1, prior to the scheduled seating of Burma’s newly elected Parliament, the Burmese military detained a broad cross-section of civilian government leadership, including State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and President Win Myint, civil society leaders, journalists, and human right activists.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 11, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee advanced the nomination of Dr. Miguel Cardona to be the Secretary of Education to the full Senate by a bipartisan vote of 17-5. Senator Patty Murray, Chair of the HELP Committee, reiterated her strong support...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2021
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that Robert Tyrone Kimbrough, 35, of Many, Louisiana, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Donald E. Walter to 120 months (10 years) in prison followed by 3 years of supervised release for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm and possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2021
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - United States Attorney John C. Milhiser announced today that he has submitted his resignation to the President, to be effective Feb. 28, 2021.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 11, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC- The House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure has advanced nearly $100 billion in badly-needed aid to the American people-including transportation workers whose jobs are at risk due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic-as part of President Biden’s American Rescue Plan.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of Possession of Material Depicting the Sexual Exploitation of a Minor, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 11, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $508,000 grant to the Town of Centerville, Tennessee, to make water infrastructure improvements needed to protect local businesses from flooding. This EDA grant, to be matched with $127,000 in local investment, is expected to create 55 jobs and generate $9.5 million in private investment.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 11, 2021
News Release: Fire managers from Rocky Mountain National Park are preparing to conduct a prescribed burn in the South Lateral Moraine area, if favorable weather and fuel conditions allow. The area included for the prescribed burn is an approximate 200-acre section near Bear Lake Road between the Big Thompson Bridge...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Lawrence man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for selling fentanyl.
