News from February 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2021
News Release: Previously Charged for Using a Phone and the Internet to Promote a Prostitution Business and for Allegedly Paying More Than $90,000 for Commercial Sex, Including with at Least Four Sex Trafficking Victims, in Less Than Two Years.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2021
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A registered sex offender in Raytown, Missouri, was sentenced in federal court today for receiving child pornography over the internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2021
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK -Quayshaun Mitchell, age 28, of Syracuse, pled guilty yesterday before Chief United States Judge Glenn T. Suddaby to possession with the intent to unlawfully use a United States Postal Service key, and aiding and abetting the theft of mail, announced Acting United States Attorney Antoinette...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2021
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Dale Richard Estep II, age 34, of Woodbridge, Virginia, was indicted by a federal grand jury on Feb. 24, 2021, for passing counterfeit currency.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2021
News Release: Hagatña, Guam - SHAWN N. ANDERSON, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendant Brandon Quinata, age 37, from Umatac, Guam, was sentenced in the United States District Court of Guam to 57 months imprisonment for Conspiracy to Distribute Fifty...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2021
News Release: His wife, a co-defendant, pleaded guilty to child pornography charges in December.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Tyler Cady, 30, of Concord, pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to possess controlled substances with intent to distribute and possession of a firearm in furtherance of that conspiracy, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty pleas of eleven additional defendants for their roles in a $300 million telemarketing fraud scheme that targeted elderly and other vulnerable victims. The defendants, who were indicted on Oct. 27, 2020, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to one count each of conspiracy to commit mail fraud.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Republican Leader Kevin Brady (R-TX) sent a letter to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA) calling for an immediate hearing to investigate New York nursing home deaths. The letter was joined by Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Devin Nunes (R-CA) and Rep. Tom Reed (R-NY).
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 26, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Aviation Rick Larsen (D-WA) announced the Subcommittee will hold a hearing titled, “COVID-19’s Effects on U.S. Aviation and the Flight Path to Recovery." This is the Subcommittee’s first hearing in the 117th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2021
News Release: SENTENCING - ILDERALDO DEANDRE LIMA-MOSLEY. On Feb. 22, Ilderaldo Deandre Lima-Mosley, 32, was sentenced to 2 years in federal prison for felon in possession of a firearm. In May 2020, Lima-Mosley, a previously convicted felon, met an individual at a Dallas area tobacco shop to sell a.380 pistol...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) opened today’s hearing on “Weathering the Storm: The Role of Private Tech in the SolarWinds Breach and Ongoing Campaign," emphasizing the need to better understand the nature and scope of the 2020 cyberattack. The attack, a massive intelligence gathering operation likely conducted by Russia, successfully compromised multiple federal agencies and private companies.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Suffolk County, New York, man was arrested today for illegally possessing a firearm, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 26, 2021
News Release: Jasper, Arkansas - Road construction continues in the Kyles Landing area of Buffalo National River in Newton County. A temporary road closure is in place to allow contractors to resurface the road from the National Park Service boundary to the Kyles Landing Campground. Unexpected weather delays have...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 26, 2021
News Release: House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) today announced that the House will accept Member requests for Community Project Funding in appropriations bills for the upcoming fiscal year.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 26, 2021
News Release: HOUGHTON, MICH - Isle Royale National Park announced today plans are being finalized to open the park for visitation this summer and for Ranger III to provide limited public passenger service. Ranger III passenger service begins May 25 and concludes September 11. Park staff will begin processing Ranger...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 26, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The second annual President’s Cup Cybersecurity Competition concluded yesterday, with the final rounds taking place over a three-day period. The President’s Cup is a national competition designed to identify, challenge, and reward the best cybersecurity talent in the federal workforce. This...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2021
News Release: Charlotte, North Carolina --- United States Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr., of the District of South Carolina and United States Attorney Andrew Murray of the Western District of North Carolina announced that Markuetric Stringfellow, 37, of Powder Springs, Georgia, has been sentenced to 78 months in prison...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2021
News Release: M. Speaker, more than a year has passed since the coronavirus was first detected in the United States.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), Republican Leader of the Subcommittee on Health for the Committee on Ways and Means, highlighted the remarkable success of the Trump Administration-led initiative to accelerate and facilitate the aggressive development and manufacturing of COVID-19 vaccines during Friday’s hearing on “The Path Forward on COVID-19 Immunizations." He also called for greater focus on four key priorities...
