News from February 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA-On Feb. 3, 2021, Thomas Donald Boatright, age 52, of Council Bluffs pleaded guilty in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa to four counts of coercion and enticement of a minor, announced Acting United States Attorney Richard D. Westphal.
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.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 4, 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), Fred Upton (R-MI), David McKinley (R-WV), Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-VA) issued the following joint statement on their letter asking the Office of Management and Budget to provide details on COVID-19 Relief...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, joined U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, in reintroducing a bipartisan bill to help protect the health and safety ...
By State Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
Release: Today, President Biden signed a Presidential Memorandum directing all U.S. government departments and agencies engaged abroad to ensure that U.S. diplomacy and foreign assistance promote and protect the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI+) persons around the world.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 4, 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), Fred Upton (R-MI), David McKinley (R-WV), Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-VA) issued the following joint statement on their letter asking the Office of Management and Budget to provide details on COVID-19 Relief...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021, Monte Clayton Lynch, a 50-year-old from St. Louis, Missouri, was sentenced to 151 months in prison after pleading guilty to multiple bank robberies in Alabama, Missouri, Tennessee, and Georgia, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Kelly Wolfe (49, Indian Rocks Beach) has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud and filing a false tax return. She faces a maximum penalty of 13 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: A federal judge in Waco yesterday sentenced 32-year-old Brayshon Negale Cummings to the statutory maximum of 10 years in federal prison for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Gregg N. Sofer.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Feb. 3, 2021, a federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment charging Héctor Maldonado Maldonado and Miguel Santana Avilés with assaulting a federal officer, announced W. Stephen Muldrow, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) with the collaboration of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) are in charge of the investigation of the case.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: CAMDEN, 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 Philadelphia man today admitted his role in a fentanyl distribution conspiracy.
By State Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price:.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: NOAA and the University of Southern Mississippi (USM) signed a 10-year agreement today to partner on ways to improve how uncrewed systems (UxS) are used to collect important ocean observation data and augment NOAA’s operational capabilities. The agreement provides a framework for collaborating with NOAA scientists and UxS operators on projects to further UxS research, development and operations.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Congressman Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (VA-03), Chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) had the following prepared remarks today at a Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee hearing titled, "Safeguarding American Consumers: Fighting Fraud and Scams During the Pandemic:"
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: Defendant admitted to kidnapping and armed robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: Memphis, TN - U.S. Marshal Tyreece Miller announces the arrest of Minnesota murder fugitive, Armond Desmond Stewart for Second Degree Murder.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) had the following prepared remarks today at a Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee hearing titled, "Safeguarding American Consumers: Fighting Fraud and Scams During the Pandemic:"
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: Man Sentenced for Engaging in Illicit Sexual Conduct with Minors in the Republic of Kenya.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.1 million grant to the Miami Conservancy District, Dayton, Ohio, to protect the Old North Dayton area from flooding by upgrading the Greater Old North Dayton levee. This EDA grant, to be matched with $276,254 in local investment, is expected to retain 100 jobs and generate $5 million in private investment.
