News from February 2021

By Commerce News Now | Feb 10, 2021
The US Commerce Department published a three page notice on Feb. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOL Newswire | Feb 10, 2021
News Release: Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after Democrats advanced their left wing partisan COVID-19 budget reconciliation scheme along party lines...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that James S. Marshall, 68, of Farmington, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa to negligent endangerment under the Clean Air Act. The charge carries a maximum penalty of one year in prison and a $125,000 fine.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Sharpsburg, PA pleaded guilty to a charge of violating a federal firearms law, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.

By State Newswire | Feb 10, 2021
Release: We are deeply concerned about declining media pluralism in Hungary. The imminent loss of the broadcasting license of one of the country’s most popular radio stations, Klubradio, threatens the departure of yet another independent voice from Hungary’s airwaves. The United States shares the concerns of international press freedom advocates and many Hungarians over the decline of media pluralism in Hungary.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2021
News Release: TEXARKANA, Texas - A Texarkana, Texas, doctor has pleaded guilty today to a federal fraud violation, announced Eastern District of Texas Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to theft of public money and making a false statement on an application for Social Security benefits.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2021
News Release: Kula, Maui - After 28 years of long and distinguished service at Haleakalā National Park, Botanist Bill Haus officially retired from the National Park Service on Jan. 31, 2021. Bill, and his co-worker and wife Patti Welton, have spent their long careers identifying and collecting plant specimens for archiving at Haleakalā National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2021
News Release: OAKLAND - Terrence Patrick Goggin was sentenced today to one year and one day in prison and ordered to pay $685,000 in restitution for money laundering, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Craig D. Fair, and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Acting Special Agent in Charge Michael Daniels. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable James Donato, United States District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2021
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Trenton man was sentenced today to 48 months in prison for possessing firearms as a convicted felon.
By State Newswire | Feb 10, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.

By USDA Newswire | Feb 10, 2021
News Release: Ahead of today's House Agriculture Committee Full Committee Virtual Meeting, Chairman David Scott of Georgia welcomed new and returning Democratic Members of the Committee for the 117th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - The former operator of a suburban Chicago nightclub has been charged in federal court with assisting in the preparation and submission of false corporate income tax returns for six years.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - United States Attorney Andrew E. Lelling announced today that, effective Feb. 28, 2021, he will step down as United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts. Mr. Lelling tendered his resignation to the President of the United States earlier this week.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was arrested yesterday and charged in connection with fraudulently using another person’s Social Security number.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2021
News Release: Used Her Position in the Company to Employ Several Schemes to Defraud her Employer; Spent Stolen Funds on Luxury Personal Expenses, Including Washington Wizards Season Tickets and Cancun Vacation.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2021
News Release: Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area is now accepting applications for food and craft vendors to participate in the 21st annual Spring Planting and Music Festival on Saturday, April 24, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2021
News Release: BILLINGS - A Hardin man on Tuesday admitted raping a woman he met at a casino and took to the Crow Indian Reservation, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - United States District Judge John A. Ross sentenced Amos Vonzell Blanchard, Jr. to 54 months in prison today. The 45-year-old Florissant, Missouri resident previously pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base and one count of possession with the intent to distribute cocaine base.