News from February 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: Man Pleads Guilty to Directing COVID-Relief Fraud Scheme.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-The Subcommittee on Government Operations today held a hearing on reforming the federal workforce. At the hearing, Republicans continued to advocate for making the federal workforce more efficient, effective, and accountable to the American people. Republicans also discussed President Trump’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - A Cincinnati man, Thomas Coleman, 48, was sentenced to 188 months in federal prison on Tuesday, by U.S. District Judge David Bunning, after previously admitting to distributing fentanyl and heroin.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing titled, "Pathway to Protection: Expanding Availability of COVID-19 Vaccines:"
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Robert Fitzgerald, 50, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of failing to collect and pay over payroll taxes to the Internal Revenue Service, was sentenced to serve one year probation and ordered to pay $122,207.16 in restitution to the IRS by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By State Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
Release: Around the world, corruption threatens security and stability, hinders economic growth, undermines democracy and human rights, destroys trust in public institutions, facilitates transnational crime, and siphons away public and private resources. The Biden Administration recognizes that we will only be...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered remarks at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing entitled, ““Pathway to Protection: Expanding Availability of COVID-19 Vaccines"
By State Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
Release: The United States supports transparency and accountability in managing transboundary resources. For decades, these values have guided our work to promote the health and sustainability of the Mekong River and the nearly 70 million people whose livelihoods depend on it. We share the concerns of Mekong...
By State Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), joined Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Congressman Jared Huffman (CA-02) to reintroduce the Generating Resilient, Environmentally Exceptional National (GREEN) Streets Act. ...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: The FAA issued an Emergency Airworthiness Directive (AD) tonight that requires U.S. operators of airplanes equipped with certain Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engines to inspect these engines before further flight.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing titled, "Pathway to Protection: Expanding Availability of COVID-19 Vaccines:"
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that RICHARD LEAF, a resident of Somers, was arrested this morning and charged with receiving and possessing videos and images containing child pornography. LEAF was presented today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew E. Krause in White Plains federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: Two California residents were sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford for defrauding Affordable Care Act programs in at least 12 states of more than $27 million. JEFFREY WHITE, 63, was sentenced to 36 months of imprisonment and three years of supervised release, and NICHOLAS WHITE, 35, was sentenced to 13 months of imprisonment and three years of supervised release. Both defendants reside in Twin Peaks, California.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: Justice Department Sues to Shut Down Florida Tax Return Preparers.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA), and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) wrote to Facebook...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is hosting the final rounds of the second annual President’s Cup Cybersecurity Competition this week. The President’s Cup is a national competition designed to identify, challenge, and reward the best cybersecurity talent in the...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing titled, "Pathway to Protection: Expanding Availability of COVID-19 Vaccines:"
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
Release: Congressman Mike Quigley (D-IL), Chair of the Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's oversight hearing of the Internal Revenue Service.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 23, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican Leader Morgan Griffith (R-VA) delivered remarks at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Pathway to Protection: Expanding Availability of COVID-19 Vaccines."
