News from February 2021
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., last night introduced the U.S.-Cuba Trade Act of 2021 to repeal outdated sanctions on Cuba and establish normal trade relations with the island nation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that two Anchorage men were sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Ralph R. Beistline for their roles in the December 4, 2019 armed robbery of an Anchorage Wells Fargo Bank branch on Debarr Rd.
By DOE 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 DOL Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: Committee on Education and Labor Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after the House passed H.R. 447, the National Apprenticeship Act of 2021, job killing legislation that doubles down on an 80-year-old system and closes pathways to rewarding careers...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - United States District Court Judge David J. Hale this week sentenced Joshua J. Logsdon, 36, of Sonora, Kentucky to 190 months’ imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for an armed carjacking that occurred on Feb. 26, 2019, in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, announced Acting United States Attorney Michael A. Bennett.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - An Oregon biotechnology consultant was charged today in federal court in Boston in connection with his role in an alleged insider trading scheme involving the acquisition of a Cambridge biotechnology company in 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: FAIRBANKS, Alaska - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking public comment by March 22, 2021 on its proposal to implement new overnight camping fees at four campgrounds along the Dalton Highway for the first time in 10 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that CRAIG ZABALA, the chairman, chief executive officer, and president of Concorde Group Holdings Inc. (“Holdings"), was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for participating in a scheme to defraud investors...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: Las Cruces, N.M. - Beginning the week of February 8, the Bureau of Land Management Las Cruces District will begin prescribed burn operations in Otero County and at Dripping Springs Natural Area.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: Glen Jean, West Virginia - Nature can be a great inspiration! Local students can celebrate their creativity and interest in nature through the Youth Arts in the Parks 2021 Appalachian Spring Wildflower Art Contest. Now is the time for students to get their entries in, for the online contest entry window...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - United States District Court Judge David J. Hale this week sentenced Joshua J. Logsdon, 36, of Sonora, Kentucky to 190 months’ imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for an armed carjacking that occurred on Feb. 26, 2019, in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, announced Acting United States Attorney Michael A. Bennett.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Watertown, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: Strong City, Kansas - Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve announced its prescribed fire season beginning now through April. Prescribed fire is one method used to promote a healthy prairie and maintain the cultural landscape of the preserve. It is also used by preserve land managers to control woody vegetation...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: (BELLE FOURCHE, S.D.) - The Blair Ranch, LLC, of Belle Fourche, S.D., were presented with the 2020 Sagebrush Steppe Stewardship Award for their efforts to rehabilitate public lands through livestock grazing and other management tools, Feb. 3.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: Two men have been sentenced in the last week for their role in trafficking heroin in the Northern District of Oklahoma, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Nelson Nicholas Nunez-Acosta, 55, of La Vega, Dominican Republic, was sentenced on February 4, 2021 by Chief United States District Judge John M. Gerrard for Possession with Intent to Distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl. Nunez-Acosta received a sentence of 132 months with a five-year term of supervised release to follow. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Damion Lemont Hayes, 21, of Louisville, Kentucky, was sentenced by United States District Judge David J. Hale on Thursday, February 4, 2021, to 91 months’ imprisonment followed by a 3 year term of Supervised Release for his role in a carjacking that occurred during protest activity in Louisville last year, announced Acting United States Attorney Michael A. Bennett.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Joseph McCready Tomson, 30, of Vallejo, was sentenced Thursday to 10 years and three months in prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: Man Charged Police Line in Effort To Halt Certification of Presidential Election.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A former senior executive at TPG Capital, a global private equity firm, has agreed to plead guilty in connection with his involvement in the college admissions case.
