News published on Federal Newswire in February 2021

News from February 2021


Escondido Man Admits to Tax Evasion Scheme with Former Chabad of Poway Rabbi

News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Michelle L. Wasserman (619) 546-8431 and Oleksandra Johnson (619) 546-9769.


News Release: LOS ALAMOS, N.M. - The EM Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) and cleanup contractor N3B have been shipping hundreds of containers of purged well water and other materials from sites across Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) for offsite disposal in recent months.


News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Monday, Feb. 1, 2021, Bryan Dennard, a 36-year-old from Montgomery, Alabama, was sentenced to 30 months in prison after pleading guilty to bank robbery, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. Dennard was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release after he completes his prison sentence. There is no parole in the federal system. Dennard has a pending forfeiture order against him for the stolen bank proceeds.


News Release: WASHINGTON-Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-La.) today blasted the Biden administration for taking steps to vaccinate illegal immigrants.


Alleged Domestic Abuser Arrested by U.S. Marshals Task Force

News Release: Memphis, TN - U.S. Marshal Tyreece Miller announces the arrest of Broderick Wright for Aggravated Assault and Aggravated Burglary.


Bozeman doctor sentenced, fined $150,000 for illegal drug dispensing at weight loss clinics

News Release: BILLINGS - A Bozeman doctor who admitted illegally dispensing appetite suppressants without seeing clients at clinics in Bozeman and Billings was sentenced today to three years of probation and fined $150,000, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif Johnson said.


White River Man Sentenced for Assault With Dangerous Weapon

News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a White River, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault With a Dangerous Weapon was sentenced on Feb. 1, 2021, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.


Corporate insider sent to prison

News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 42-year-old San Antonio man has been ordered to federal prison after he admitted to wire fraud that resulted in a loss of $1,878,615.84, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.


News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person.


News Release: VAN BUREN, MO - Preparations are underway for Ozark National Scenic Riverways to accomplish several prescribed burns this spring, between early February and mid-April.


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News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Xavier D. Cooper, 27, of Canton, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Court Judge David C. Bramlette III to 30 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Darren LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Michelle A. Sutphin of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Cooper was also ordered to pay a $1500 fine.


News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - United States Attorney J. Douglas Overbey, along with Acting Attorney General Monty Wilkinson and FBI Director Christopher Wray, mourn the loss of the two FBI Special Agents who died in the line of duty today in Sunrise, Florida.


Judge sentences St. Louis County woman for making false statements to the Social Security Administration and defrauding Mercedes Benz

News Release: ST. LOUIS - United States District Ronnie L. White sentenced Tayon Hutchins-Fowler to 12 months and one day in prison today. The 43-year-old Florissant, Missouri resident pleaded guilty, in December, to one count of making a false statement to the Social Security Administration and one count of wire fraud regarding a scheme to defraud Mercedes Benz.


Chairman Neal Announces Ways and Means Democrats’ Subcommittee Assignments for the 117th Congress

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) announced the Democratic membership and chairs of the Ways and Means Committee’s subcommittees for the 117th Congress.


Group of House Democrats Pushing for FEMA Cost-Share Reimbursement Applaud President Biden’s Latest Action That Will Help Communities Across the Country

News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Chair of the House Committee on Appropriations Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT), Chair of the House Committee on Homeland Security Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chair of the Subcommittee on Economic Development, ...


News Release: House Committee on Education and Labor Ranking Member Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), Representative Tim Walberg (R-Mich.), and Representative Michael Cloud (R-Texas) today wrote to the Biden-Harris Transition Team and White House Counsel’s ...


News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA. - A resident of Farrell, Pennsylvania has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.


News Release: Anchorage - This morning FBI Special Agent Daniel Alfin and Special Agent Laura Schwartzenberger were killed in the line of duty and three other agents were wounded while executing a federal court-ordered search warrant in a crimes against children investigation in Sunrise, Florida.


News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks as prepared for delivery today at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing titled, "No Time to Lose: Solutions to Increase COVID-19 Vaccinations in the States:"