News from February 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: MADISON, Wis. - Robert J. Bell, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration- Chicago Division and Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Phillip Thomas, Madison, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty and was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today after attending a White House meeting with President Biden, Vice President Harris, and House Democratic leaders to discuss the urgent need to provide COVID-19 pandemic relief to the American people...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: The research reactor on NIST’s Gaithersburg, Maryland, campus is shut down and in a safe state. It will remain in shutdown status until the cause of the elevated radiation levels is determined and corrected. The elevated levels of radiation within the NCNR’s confinement building have dropped significantly, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - Omar Jaquan Carr, 26, from Teachey, North Carolina, was sentenced today to 84 months in prison for conspiracy to possess and possess with the intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine, from January 2019 through Feb. 19, 2020, one count of aiding and abetting in the distribution...
By State Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Tonight, the Biden Administration announced they are beginning the process of rescinding the Foreign Terrorist Organization designation for the Houthis in Yemen. Last month, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican ...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: BUSHKILL, PA - To protect the health of those who live, work, and visit national parks and National Park Service (NPS) facilities, and in support of President Biden’s Executive Order on Protecting the Federal Workforce and Requiring Mask-Wearing, NPS is immediately implementing a mask requirement for employees, visitors, partners and contractors.
By State Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
Release: Today, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a decision claiming jurisdiction in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza, while expressly recognizing the serious legal and factual questions that surround its ability to do so.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: Washington D.C.- House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) issued the following statement on the Pre-Existing Conditions Protection Act of 2021...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: NEW YORK - Ray Donovan, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration New York Division, Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Peter C. Fitzhugh, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of Homeland Security Investigations, and...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Rogelio Benavides, 35, of Arvin, was sentenced Thursday to five years and five months in prison for bank fraud, aggravated identity theft, and being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was arrested yesterday and charged with methamphetamine distribution.
By State Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
Release: The following joint statement was issued by the Governments of France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: Washington D.C.- House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Republican Subcommittee Leaders Rep. Robert Latta (R-OH), Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), and Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-VA) issued the following joint statement on their letter asking Committee Chairman Frank Pallone Jr. to join Republicans in holding Big Tech accountable...
By State Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
Release: On behalf of the United States Government and the American people, I send my best wishes to the people of New Zealand as you commemorate Waitangi Day on February 6.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Susan A. Gibson, and Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Rachael A. Honig announced a federal grand jury today indicted an Essex County, New Jersey, man for narcotics offenses for operating a large-scale heroin mill out of his apartment.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: U.S. Attorney John H. Durham and Special Agent in Charge Phillip Coyne of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General, today announced that SECON OF NEW ENGLAND, LLC, d/b/a SECON LABORATORIES, and STERLING HEALTHCARE OPCO, LLC, d/b/a CORDANT HEALTH SOLUTIONS (collectively...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A federal grand jury today indicted an Essex County, New Jersey, man for narcotics offenses for operating a large-scale heroin mill out of his apartment, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement applauding the Biden Administration’s Support of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Director General Candidate Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person was sentenced on Feb. 1, 2021, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By State Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Tonight, the Biden Administration announced they are beginning the process of rescinding the Foreign Terrorist Organization designation for the Houthis in Yemen. Last month, Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member...
