News from February 2021
By USDA Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
Release: The government of South Korea has asked USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) to authorize the importation of ginseng (Panax ginseng C. A. Mey.) for consumption into the United States and Territories. APHIS has drafted a pest risk assessment that describes potential pests associated ...
By State Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
Release: We are disturbed by reports that a Russian court sentenced Valentina Baranovskaya and her son, Roman Baranovsky, to terms of two and six years in a Russian penal colony, respectively, simply for being practicing Jehovah’s Witnesses. The sentencing of Valentina, a 69-year-old stroke victim, is particularly cruel. It also marks the first time a Russian court has sentenced a female Jehovah’s Witness.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement regarding the Senate Parliamentarian’s decision to exclude a radical provision mandating a federal wage hike from the Democrats’ budget reconciliation scheme...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $6 million grant to the town of Darrington, Washington, to acquire land and provide infrastructure needed to establish the Darrington Wood Innovation Center. This EDA grant, to be matched with $1.7 million in state investment, is expected to create 156 jobs and generate $22 million in private investment.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - The former administrator of a Mount Lebanon skilled nursing home has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States, health care fraud and obstruction of a federal audit, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady and Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: DAYTON - A former contractor with the United States Air Force pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to illegally taking approximately 2,500 pages of classified documents.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States District Judge Paul G. Byron has sentenced George Poulo (27, Orlando) to 170 years in federal prison for using a minor to produce sexually explicit conduct and distributing child pornography. Poulo was also ordered to serve a lifetime term of supervised release and register as a sex offender. Poulo had been found guilty following a bench trial on Sept. 30, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - Maurice Woodson, 34, of St. Louis, Missouri, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute cocaine; one count of discharging a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime resulting in death; and one count of witness tampering. Woodson appeared today before United States District Judge Henry E. Autrey who accepted the plea.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: Bui had a criminal history that included drug and domestic abuse convictions.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Feb. 25, 2021 - Justin Jerome Jones, 33, of Nashville, Tennessee, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William L. Campbell Jr., to 235 months in prison, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS, Calif. Feb. 25, 2021 - Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks are releasing their 2020 fire year summary and 2021 prescribed burn and mechanical treatment plans to the public.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: Hawaii National Park, HAWAI‘I - Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park wants dogs and their humans to have a pawsitive experience in the park, while keeping people, pets and wildlife safe through its new “Bark Ranger" program. The new self-guided program is as easy as BARK!.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: A third superseding indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging 11 members and associates of the violent New York City-based street gang known as the “Bully Gang" with racketeering for their role in multiple crimes, including attempted murder, armed robbery, narcotics trafficking, ...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: Dear Secretary Mayorkas, Director Haines, and Mr. Sullivan...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Brent Carter, age 72, of Las Vegas, Nevada, was charged by criminal complaint with mailing envelopes containing suspicious powders to the New York State Gaming Commission in Schenectady, New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: ATHENS, Ga. - An inmate in the Georgia Department of Corrections system has pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute methamphetamine from prison, said Peter D. Leary, the Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that 37 people have been federally indicted as part of OCDETF Operation Say Uncle. OCDETF stands for Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces, which is a “keystone of the Attorney General’s strategy to reduce the availability of illicit narcotics throughout...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment today against Wendell Ladell Lafrance Moton, 30, of Fresno, charging him with being a felon in possession of ammunition, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Dominican national deported in August 2016 to his native Dominican Republic after having been arrested twice for drug trafficking, and who later re-entered the United States illegally, pleaded guilty in federal court in Providence on Wednesday to trafficking fentanyl and illegal re-entry into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced that Michael Rhodes, 41, of Parkersburg, was sentenced to 10 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute more than 500 grams of methamphetamine and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Rhodes was prosecuted as part of Project Parkersburg - a major takedown and dismantling of a poly-drug, multi-state drug trafficking organization (DTO).
