News from February 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - In a 22-page order issued today, United States Magistrate Judge Andrea K. Johnstone ordered that Ryder Winegar, 33, of Amherst be detained pending trial, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Child Abuse.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after the House Republican Steering Committee recommended Rep. Kevin Hern (R-OK), Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R-PA), and Rep. Carol Miller (R-WV) to serve on the Ways and Means Committee...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: Washington - A Louisiana return preparer was sentenced to 24 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 the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that two men were sentenced today in the Western District of Louisiana on drug trafficking charges. The sentencing hearings took place in Shreveport and Lafayette, Louisiana.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: Shane Crutcher, installation fire chief at Fort Belvoir Fire and Emergency services in northern Virginia, has been named as the new chief of structural fire for the National Park Service (NPS). He succeeds Brian Johnson, who retired in October 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man pleaded guilty today to assaulting officers with a firearm during the civil disorder in Boston early in the morning of June 1, 2020.
By State Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Two days after House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul led over 20 House Members to call for the Senate to place a hold on the confirmation of Governor Raimondo to serve as the Commerce Secretary until the Biden Administration clarifies whether they will keep Huawei on the Department’s Entity List, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) announced he would place the hold. A statement from Lead Republican McCaul is below.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Maryland man working as a tax preparer in New Jersey was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to defraud the IRS by preparing false income tax returns for clients in order to boost business at tax preparation companies that he and others ran, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: 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 Commerce Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) issued the following statement in response to the Department of the Interior’s delay of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams announced today that Errol Amorin Andam, 49, of Beaverton, Oregon, a former marketing manager at Nike, Inc., has been charged by criminal information with wire fraud, money laundering, and making false statements on a loan application as part of a scheme to defraud his former employer.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Pierre, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Involuntary Manslaughter.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: Also Ordered to Pay More than $73,000 in Medicare Restitution.
By State Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) opened today’s hearing by emphasizing the humanitarian and national security crisis at our southern border is being left unchecked by Congressional Democrats and fueled by President Joe Biden’s radical, far-left immigration policies.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - James Coughlin, 38, of Sanbornville, pleaded guilty in federal court to drug trafficking charges and unlawful possession of firearms and ammunition, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: Pecos, NM: Pecos National Historical Park will offer spring fishing permits for the Pecos River within the park boundaries. The 2021 spring fishing season will begin March 4th and end April 12th. Please note that spring fishing hours will be from 8:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Christopher Montano, age 36, of Edinburg, New York, pled guilty today to unlawfully conspiring to deal, possess, transfer and make unregistered firearms, and to distributing methamphetamine.
By State Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Good afternoon. Today I get to say something that brings me tremendous happiness: President Biden, Vice President Harris, welcome to the State Department.
