News from February 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: Office Collections over Budget. Exceed $18.4 Million over Two Year Period. Collections Exceed Budget Over Period by more than 135%. CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced that his office collected $9,244,423.94 in FY 2020 and $22,761,541.52 in FY 2019, an amount more than $18.4...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - To protect the health of those who live, work and visit BLM-managed public lands and facilities, and in support of President Biden’s Executive Order on Protecting the Federal Workforce and Requiring Mask-Wearing, the Bureau of Land Management is immediately implementing a mask...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that GERARD LAWLESS, age 41, of New Orleans, was sentenced on Feb. 3, 2021 by United States District Judge Lance M. Africk after previously pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2).
By State Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
Release: The text of the following statement was released by United States Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian on the occasion of the six-month anniversary of the Port of Beirut incident.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, today announced that David S. Jones, the Deputy Chief of the Office’s Civil Division, has been appointed to serve as a United States Bankruptcy Judge in Manhattan. Mr. Jones will officially assume his duties on Feb. 19, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: Stefan He Qin Stole and Dissipated Nearly All the Assets of His $90 Million Flagship Hedge Fund and Attempted to Steal Millions of Dollars from a Secondary Fund to Pay Back Investors.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Ridgeview, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance, Maintaining a Drug-Involved Premises, Distribution to a Person Under Age Twenty-One, Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance, and Prohibited Person in Possession of a Firearm, was sentenced on Feb. 1, 2021, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-The top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Dr. Janet Yellen as the next Secretary for the U.S. Department of Treasury...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: ROCKFORD -A Rockford, Ill. man was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge John Z. Lee on a federal drug trafficking charge and for illegally possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. BRIAN KOTLIENTHONG, 33, was sentenced on each charge to 108 months in federal prison, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release, to be served concurrently. Kotlienthong pleaded guilty to the charges on Aug. 13, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Two federal defendants who were housed at the Sangamon County Jail, in Springfield, Ill., while in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service, have been indicted with two others for conspiracy to escape from prison and conspiracy to possess contraband in prison in December 2020. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: Spokane - William D. Hyslop, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Stephen Williams Knox, age 63, of Spokane, Washington, was sentenced yesterday after having pleaded guilty on Oct. 29, 2020, to Failure to Register as a Sex Offender, in violation of 18 U.S.C.
By State Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
Release: The United States condemns the heinous assassination of prominent Lebanese activist Lokman Slim in Southern Lebanon. We join the international community in calling for his killers to be brought to swift justice. Mr. Slim devoted his life to bringing about positive change in Lebanon and bravely pushed...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: Copper Center, AK-At approximately 11:41 a.m., the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center (RCC) was notified of a plane crash near Chitina, AK in Wrangell-St Elias National Park after an Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT) was activated belonging to a Cessna 185. It is believed that two people were on board...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: The Defendants Allegedly Misrepresented GPB’s Performance and Paid Distributions with Investor Funds.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $6.9 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Nevada System of Higher Education, Las Vegas, Nevada, to support workforce education and training at the College of Southern Nevada. This EDA grant is expected to help create 300 jobs.
By State Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
Release: Good morning. Let me welcome our virtual audience from across the region and say thanks to the Association of American Chambers of Commerce in Latin America and the Caribbean (AACCLA) and the Rule of Law Coalition for inviting me to speak today.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Dan Sullivan (R-AK), Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) reintroduced a bipartisan bill to help protect the health and safety of firefighters, emergency responders and the...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $11.2 million grant to the Office of the Governor, Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands, to rehabilitate roadway infrastructure within a commercial district of Saipan. This EDA grant is expected to help create nearly 300 jobs and generate more than $1.3 million in private investment.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON- Tonight, the top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after President-elect Joseph R. Biden released his proposal for an additional COVID-19 stimulus package...
By State Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price:.
