News from February 2021
By EPA Newswire | Feb 9, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) announced today that the Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a full Committee markup on Thursday, Feb. 11, at 11 a.m. via Cisco Webex video conferencing on legislative recommendations for its budget reconciliation instructions, which were passed last week by the House and Senate.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2021
News Release: Has Prior Felony Convictions for Identity Theft and Illegally Reentering the United States.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 9, 2021
News Release: Washington D.C- House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) sent a letter to Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone (D-NJ) urging him to pause the partisan sprint towards a reconciliation package for one week and begin earnest, bipartisan negations for COVID relief.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2021
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA - A Garden City, Ga., clinic owner and CEO has been indicted for operating a clinic that provided a base from which a notorious “pill mill" doctor dispensed massive amounts of controlled substances.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 9, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, convened a business meeting to consider the nomination of Michael S. Regan to be the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). A bipartisan majority of Committee members voted to move forward on his confirmation by a recorded vote of 14 to 6. His nomination now heads to the Senate floor for a full vote.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris (R-WA) delivered remarks at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Back in Action: Restoring Federal Climate Leadership."
By DOE Newswire | Feb 9, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.- House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement after Committee Democrats released Energy and Commerce provisions of President Biden’s COVID-19 relief “plan."
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) announced today that the Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a full Committee markup on Thursday, Feb. 11, at 11 a.m. via Cisco Webex video conferencing on legislative recommendations for its budget reconciliation instructions, which were passed last week by the House and Senate.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Terry Lajeunesse, age 49, of Pottersville, New York, was charged last month with obstruction of justice for attempting to convince another individual to admit guilt for crimes allegedly committed by Lajeunesse.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2021
News Release: In Midland today, a federal judge sentenced 33-year-old Odessa resident Christopher Caswell to 33 months in federal prison for being a convicted felon who pointed a rifle at and threatened a driver, announced U.S. Attorney Ashley C. Hoff.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that on February 8, 2021, United States District Judge Christina Reiss sentenced Hamza Sharifshoble to 60 months in prison plus 5 years of supervised release following his guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute five grams or more of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - The United States Attorney’s Office has collected $792,000 in civil penalties as two more civil Controlled Substances Act (CSA) investigations have settled, announced Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Steven S. Whipple, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Gregg...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: To protect the health of those who live, work and visit our national parks and facilities, and in support of the President’s Executive Order on Protecting the Federal Workforce and Requiring Mask-Wearing, the National Park Service (NPS) implemented a mask requirement for employees, visitors, partners and contractors.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tim Garrison, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., woman was charged in federal court today with the armed robbery of a Capitol Federal Savings Bank located in Liberty, Missouri.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - An Orange County man was sentenced today to 120 months in federal prison for selling narcotics and illegally brokering the sale of firearms - including several “ghost guns.".
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - Kevin Brown, 40, of Brunswick County, was sentenced today to 114 months imprisonment for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and distribution of 28 grams or more of cocaine base (crack) and a quantity of cocaine and distribution of a quantity of cocaine. Brown also received a consecutive sentence of 36 months imprisonment for a supervised release violation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: A Rocky Mount, North Carolina, tax return preparer was sentenced to 50 months in prison today for conspiring to defraud the United States, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Robert J. Higdon Jr. for the Eastern District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: An Ohio physician was sentenced to two years in prison today for his role in illegally distributing opioids.
By Fed Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Monday announced its approval of the application under section 9 of the Federal Reserve Act by Regions Bank, Birmingham, Alabama, to establish a branch at Farm to Market Road 423 (West University Drive), just south of Highway 380, Frisco, Texas.
By Fed Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Monday announced its approval of the application under section 9 of the Federal Reserve Act by Simmons Bank, Pine Bluff, Arkansas, to establish a branch at 8319 Preston Road, Dallas, Texas.
