News from February 2021
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 DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced that Ralph Weathington, Jr., 28, of Charleston, formerly of Detroit, Michigan, was sentenced to 188 months in prison for distribution of methamphetamine, distribution of fentanyl, and possession with the intent to distribute cocaine, fentanyl...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.) released the following statement on becoming Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works during the 117th Congress.
By DOE 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: Hattiesburg, Miss. - Ivan Cano-Elvira, 34, an illegal alien from Mexico, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Taylor B. McNeel to possession of a firearm by an illegal alien, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca, Diane Witte, Field Office Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
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 as he announced the Subcommittee Republican Leaders and Subcommittee assignments for Republican Members of the Committee for the 117th Congress...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: Man Sentenced for Advertising Videos and Images of Children Being Sexually Abused.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 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 State Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
Release: The text of the following statement was released by the G7 foreign ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and the High Representative of the European Union.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: Defendant’s husband also pled guilty in January for his role in the conspiracy to fake her death at the New River Gorge.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TREMAINE DOWDELL, 27, of Norwich, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton to 57 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for a federal firearm offense stemming from an assault and shooting in New London in 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Duquesne, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal narcotic laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C., Feb. 3, 2021) – Score a touchdown this year with your Super Bowl LV snacks by keeping bacteria out of the end zone. While your Super Bowl traditions may look different this year given COVID-19 and the need to maintain social distancing, your plans probably still involve food. Whether ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: The United States filed a forfeiture complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia alleging that all oil aboard a Liberian-flagged vessel, the M/T Achilleas (Achilleas), is subject to forfeiture based on U.S. terrorism forfeiture laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: A former University of Florida (UF) professor and researcher and resident of China has been indicted for fraudulently obtaining $1.75 million in federal grant money from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) by concealing support he received from the Chinese government and a company that he founded in China to profit from that research.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: A Washington, D.C., man was sentenced today to over 17 years in prison for advertising videos and images of children being sexually abused.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: Today the Justice Department announced a settlement agreement with Old Dominion University (ODU) in Norfolk, Virginia, to resolve its investigation into a complaint that ODU discriminated and retaliated against a graduate student based on disability and her related request for reasonable modifications of policy. The Civil Rights Division conducted the investigation under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: The CEO of a Texas-based group of hospice and home health entities was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for falsely telling thousands of patients with long-term incurable diseases they had less than six months to live in order to enroll the patients in hospice programs for which they were otherwise ...
By State Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: The text of the following statement was released by the G7 foreign ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and the High Representative of the European Union.
By State Newswire | Feb 3, 2021
News Release: President Biden pledged to keep the American people safe from nuclear threats by restoring U.S. leadership on arms control and nonproliferation. Today, the United States took the first step toward making good on that pledge when it extended the New START Treaty with the Russian Federation for five years.
