News from February 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Chad Francisco, 32, of Nashua, was sentenced to 300 months in federal prison for manufacturing child pornography, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Ruben Castillo, 50, of Silver City, New Mexico, was sentenced on Feb. 16 in federal court to 24 years in prison for production of visual depictions of minors engaging in sexual conduct. Castillo pleaded guilty on March 24, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Nathaniel Myers a/k/a Stretch, 26, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute, and distributing, 500 grams or more of cocaine. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 40 years, and a $5,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return of an indictment charging Avinash Singh (38, Orlando) with 10 counts of wire fraud and 6 counts of money laundering. Singh faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison for each wire fraud count, and up to 10 years’ imprisonment for each money laundering count.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal grand jury has indicted a Chicago man for allegedly transporting a minor from Wisconsin to Illinois to engage in commercial sex acts.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A federal grand jury, in Pittsburgh, has issued two separate, but related, Superseding Indictments, charging a total of 24 residents of Western Pennsylvania with narcotics trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By State Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), chair of the Subcommittee on Europe and Regional Security Cooperation, today released the following statement on recent events in Georgia:
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Thomas Parker III, a/k/a “June," age 52, of Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty yesterday to federal charges related to his participation in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, heroin, and powder and crack cocaine. Eight co-defendants previously pleaded guilty to their roles in the drug conspiracy.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), Committee on House Administration Ranking Member Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), and Government Operations Subcommittee Ranking Member Jody Hice (R-Ga.) wrote U.S. Election Assistance Commission Inspector General Patricia Layfield...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
News Release: Long Island Car Wash Owner Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
Release: House Appropriations Committee Chair and Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee Chair Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on COVID-19 and the Child Care Crisis.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
News Release: Miami, Fl. - South Florida federal prosecutors have charged a 59-year-old woman from Boca Raton with making a communication in interstate commerce that threatened to kill agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - President Biden is insistent that Congress must spend close to $2 trillion in further stimulus in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Dale E. Trimmer, 46, of Spencerport, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with the attempted production and receipt of child pornography, and attempted transfer of obscene material to a minor. The charges carry a minimum penalty of 15 years in prison, a maximum penalty of 30 years, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas is on alert for fraudsters seeking to profit off of the extreme weather in Texas, warned Acting U.S. Attorney Prerak Shah.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Democrats are not only failing to crush the virus and create jobs in their partisan push to pass a $1.9 trillion bill, they also won’t address major shortcomings by leaving out GOP-led fixes that Americans need and deserve. Ways and Means Republicans’ newly released “Minority Views" report highlights these problems and our proposed solutions-that were tragically left out of the bill.
By State Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
Release: QUESTION: Secretary Blinken, welcome. SECRETARY BLINKEN: So good to be with you. QUESTION: You just joined President Biden at the virtual G7 meeting, and, of course, there’s been the Munich Security Conference. What is America’s message to friends, allies, and adversaries?. SECRETARY BLINKEN: Well,...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
News Release: SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS, California Feb. 19, 2021 - This morning Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks officers responded to a report of an individual brandishing a firearm and threatening visitors on the Big Trees Trail in the Giant Forest area of Sequoia National Park, prompting...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement on President Biden’s nomination of Chiquita Brooks-LaSure to serve as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS):
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-A week into the most important tax filing season in recent memory, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ) sounded the alarm over the first set of data from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that showed...
