News from February 2021
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Jerzy W. Salamon, P.E., S.E., Ph.D., is the Bureau of Reclamation's Engineer of the Year for 2021. Salamon is recognized for his initiative, development and involvement in various research aspects and contributions to Reclamation's mission and efforts within national and international technical...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: Lynchburg, Va.- A federal grand jury sitting in U.S. District Court in Charlottesville has indicted five individuals for conspiring to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute cocaine and marijuana, Acting United States
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Imad Dawara, 40, of Swathmore, PA, and Bahaa Dawara, 32, of Woodlyn, PA, both entered pleas of guilty today before United States District Court Chief Judge Juan R. Sanchez to charges of conspiracy to commit arson and conspiracy to defraud the United States.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-La.) today released a timeline of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s order mandating COVID-19 positive patients to be admitted to nursing homes and long-term care facilities, his actions to cover up the scandal, and his obstruction of congressional oversight and justice.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to take long-overdue, swift and decisive action to protect patients in nursing homes. For the past four years, protections for vulnerable Americans have been eroded. Now is the time to reinstate and bolster safeguards for those residing in these facilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: CONCORD, NH - Preston Elliott, 25, of Dover, was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for possession of fentanyl with intent to distribute, DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Jason Patzke, 47, has been indicted on charges of receipt and distribution of child pornography. Patzke was arrested on Feb 22, 2021 and was arraigned on the charges this morning in federal court.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Republican Leader Burgess Owens (R-UT) sent a letter to the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) requesting information on how states are helping school districts reopen schools, including the monitoring of COVID-19 aid expenditures.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding an $800,000 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to Laramie Chamber Business Alliance, Laramie, Wyoming, to capitalize and administer a Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) that will provide critical gap financing...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa-On Feb. 24, 2021, United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey sentenced Patrick Vincent Maddox, age 42, of Mobile, Alabama, formerly of Muscatine, to 180 months in prison for the production, receipt, and distribution of child pornography announced Acting United States Attorney Richard D. Westphal. Maddox was additionally ordered to serve five years of supervised release following his imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - A consultant has been indicted on federal charges for allegedly offering and providing bribes to City of Chicago officials in an effort to benefit his clients.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey Frank announced that he has submitted his resignation to the President, to be effective at 11:59 p.m. on Feb. 28, 2021. The announcement follows a request by Acting Attorney General Monty Wilkinson for almost all politically appointed U.S. Attorneys to resign to make way for President Joe Biden to appoint new U.S. Attorneys.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis today sentenced Hugo Cruz-Medina (33, Jacksonville) to three years and five months in federal prison for conspiring to commit mail and wire fraud, conspiring to defraud the United States, and illegally reentering the United States after previously...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: Good morning, Chairman Wyden, Ranking Member Crapo, members of the Committee, it is honor and delight to be here.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 44-year-old felon has been ordered to federal prison for robbing the Kleberg Bank in Corpus Christi and brandishing a firearm during the robbery, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: SEATTLE - More than 460,000 counterfeit 3M N95 surgical masks destined to be used by first responders in the Puget Sound region were seized Wednesday by Homeland Security Investigations' (HSI) Border Enforcement Security Taskforce (BEST), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Caleb Guerrier, age 39, of Hanover Township, pled guilty on Feb. 24, 2021, before U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion, for being a convicted felon in possession of firearms and ammunition and being in possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $500,000 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Eugene Chamber of Commerce, Eugene, Oregon, to provide education and mentoring support needed to help area businesses respond to the coronavirus pandemic. This EDA grant, to be matched with $184,771 in local investment, is expected to create 256 jobs and generate $910,560 in private investment.
By State Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
Release: Thank you to MEI for inviting me to participate in this important event. You’ve assembled quite an impressive line-up of international CT experts for this conference, with deep experiences and a broad range of background and perspectives.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Randolph Morris was indicted yesterday on federal charges of wire fraud and making false statements on his federal tax returns. As alleged in the indictment, from 2010 to 2017, Morris failed to report more than $13 million dollars that he earned while working as a professional basketball player in the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA).
