News from February 2021
By State Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Representatives Gregory W. Meeks (NY-D), Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Michael McCaul (TX-R), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Ami Bera (CA-D), Chair of the Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, Central Asia, and Nonproliferation, Steve Chabot...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO), Rep. Marc Veasey (D-TX), and Rep. Lizzie Fletcher (D-TX) wrote to Texas Governor Greg Abbott today demanding answers for the life-threatening winter weather crisis that has left Texans in the dark without power, heat, food, water, and medicine for multiple successive days.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Stratford, New Jersey man was sentenced today to two years in prison for transporting two women across state lines for the purpose of engaging in prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
News Release: Federal Contractor Agrees to Pay More Than $6 Million to Settle Overbilling Allegations.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Robert Alderete, 32, of Albuquerque, was sentenced in federal court in Albuquerque on Feb. 18 to three years and eight months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of suburban Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of sending threatening communications in interstate commerce, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A convicted felon was indicted today on gun-related charges after shooting into his neighbor’s backyard.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Virginia-based Information Innovators, Inc. (Triple-I) has agreed to pay the United States $6.05 million to resolve allegations that a predecessor company, Creative Computing Solutions, Inc. (CCSi), violated the False Claims Act by knowingly overbilling the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for work performed by CCSi employees who lacked required job qualifications.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
News Release: FOLSOM, Calif. - In partnership with Reclamation, approximately 440,500 steelhead trout from the Nimbus Fish Hatchery were released into the Lower American River by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife from Feb. 10-12.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - This week, six additional individuals associated with an organization known as the Oath Keepers, some of whose members were among those who forcibly entered the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 were arrested and charged in federal court in the District of Columbia for conspiring to obstruct the U.S. Congress’s certification of the result of the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election, among other charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Ryan Nicholas Wolf, of Wheeling, West Virginia, has admitted to child pornography possession, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will be conducting the Bruneau-Owyhee Sage-Grouse Habitat (BOSH) Jackpot Prescribed Burn, located southwest of Oreana, between Feb. 24 and April 30 depending on weather, fuel and ground conditions.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
News Release: BALTIMORE, Md. - Thomas Parker III, aka “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 Homeland Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is launching recruitment efforts nationwide to fill over 6,000 Transportation Security Officer (TSO) positions by summer 2021.
By State Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
Release: Well, Madam Ambassador, Elizabeth, thank you so much for the introduction, the generous introduction.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the eleven teams selected to participate in the 2022 Collegiate Wind Competition. Considered the country's most prominent undergraduate-level wind energy competition, the Collegiate Wind Competition challenges teams of college students to develop a wind energy project and design, build, and test a model wind turbine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JAMES PETRO, the former Planning and Zoning Coordinator and Property Development Manager for the Town of New Windsor, and RICHARD MCGOEY, the former Town Engineer by contract for the Town of New Windsor...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - United States District Judge Stephen R. Clark sentenced Kevin White to 120 months in prison today. The 27-year-old Hazelwood, Missouri resident pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute fentanyl.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Today, Ways and Means Democrats, led by Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ), asked the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to explain the extent to which partners who provide free tax preparation services through Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) and Tax Counseling...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
Release: Congressman Tim Ryan (D-OH), Chair of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on House Wellness and Office of Employee Assistance (OEA) Hearing.
