News from February 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr., announced today that Steve Seman Hattar, 57, of Irmo, was sentenced to 19 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement on efforts to raise the minimum wage...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Box Elder man who admitted his role in scheme to smuggle methamphetamine into the Cascade County Detention Center by having inmates hide the drug inside their bodies was sentenced today to 42 months in prison and to three years of supervised release, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif Johnson said.
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 State Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul and Chairman Gregory W. Meeks issued the following joint statement after the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s mark up of H.R. 1157, the Department of State Authorization Act of 2021.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.- Today, Republican Leader of the House Energy and Commerce Committee Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Republican Leader of the House Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC), and Congresswoman Jackie Walorski (R-IN) introduced an amendment to apply the Hyde Amendment to the entire...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has assessed $5.4 million in deferred civil penalties against The Boeing Company for failing to meet its performance obligations under a 2015 settlement agreement. The Chicago-based aircraft manufacturer also agreed to pay $1.21 million to settle two pending FAA enforcement cases.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.- Today, Republican Leader of the House Energy and Commerce Committee Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Republican Leader of the House Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC), and Congresswoman Jackie Walorski (R-IN) introduced an amendment to apply the Hyde Amendment to the entire...
By State Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
News Release: In San Antonio today, a federal grand jury returned an indictment against 66-year-old Mark Joseph Uhlenbrock of Chesterfield, Missouri, for internet stalking yet again, announced U.S. Attorney Ashley C. Hoff and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
News Release: This morning on CBS This Morning, Senator Portman discussed the bipartisan investigation he is co-leading in the Senate into the January 6 Capitol riot that resulted in seven deaths, including three police officers. Yesterday, Portman, as Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - Today the United States Drug Enforcement Administration launched a new comprehensive law enforcement and prevention initiative aimed at reducing drug use, abuse, and overdose deaths. “Operation Engage" allows participating field divisions to focus on the biggest drug threat and resulting...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-In an op-ed published on Fox News, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Budget Committee Ranking Member Jason Smith (R-Mo.) outline how Pelosi’s Payoff for Progressives is the wrong bill, at the wrong time, for all the wrong reasons and emphasize the goal is to satisfy a political agenda and bail out political allies.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
News Release: SCRANTON: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that James Williams III, also known as “Dilly," age 40, of Stroud Township, Pennsylvania, was indicted on Feb. 23, 2021, by a federal grand jury on drug trafficking and firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Three Mercer County men have been charged in separate indictments with violating federal firearms and/or drug laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
News Release: Martinsburg, WV - On Feb. 24, 2021, members of the U.S. Marshals Mountain State Fugitive Task Force arrested Darius Porter, of Martinsburg, WV. Porter was wanted by the Berkeley County Sheriffs Office on a Capias for wanton endangerment and aggravated assault with a firearm. Darius Porter and his brother Demetri Porter were involved in a shooting that occurred on May 28, 2020 in the Diesel Drive area of Martinsburg, West Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Trent Shores today announced the results of the February Federal Grand Jury B.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
News Release: ROME, Ga. - Irfanali Momin and Shiba I. Momin a/k/a Saguftabanu Momin, husband and wife, have been sentenced to prison for naturalization fraud and conspiring to illegally import and distribute misbranded drug products from China and traffic counterfeit goods. The Momins have also been criminally denaturalized as result of their convictions for naturalization fraud.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
News Release: En español Beginning this week, with the support of the Government of Mexico and international humanitarian organizations, the United States will begin to process current residents of the Matamoros camp in Mexico.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
News Release: USDA Deploys 354 Disaster, Public Health Specialists to Assist with Federal Response WASHINGTON, Feb. 24, 2021 — In January 2021, President Biden released the National Strategy for the COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness. The plan is driven by science, data, and public health to improve the effectiveness of our nation’s fight against COVID-19 and to restore trust, accountability and a sense of common purpose in our response to the pandemic.
