News from January 2021
By DOE Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after President Biden signed two executive orders this afternoon strengthening access to quality, affordable health care for the American people...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) announced today that the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee will hold a fully remote hearing on Thursday, February 4, at 12 p.m. (EST) entitled “Safeguarding American Consumers: Fighting Scams and Fraud During the Pandemic."
By DOL Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), incoming chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement after meeting by phone with Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, President Biden’s nominee to serve as Secretary of Labor...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Republican members in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate introduced the Protecting our Wealth of Energy Resources (POWER) Act of 2021 as a response to President Joe Biden’s ban on new energy leases in federal lands and waters.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: Our current schedule points to April 30, 2021, for the completion of the apportionment counts.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: LEE VINING, Calif. - Wildland fire crews from the Bureau of Land Management Bishop Field Office are planning winter pile burning operations with interagency partners for areas northeast and southeast of Lee Vining in Mono County, when weather and air quality conditions permit. Slash piles composed of...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) announced today that the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee will hold a fully remote hearing on Thursday, February 4, at 12 p.m. (EST) entitled “Safeguarding American Consumers: Fighting Scams and Fraud During the Pandemic."
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA- Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement regarding news that the U.S. economy experienced its worst year in 2020 since 1946...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Boaz BenMoshe, 58, of Israel, pleaded guilty in federal court on Wednesday to bail jumping, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after President Biden signed two executive orders this afternoon strengthening access to quality, affordable health care for the American people...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Mexican national charged with coordinating shipments for an international drug trafficking organization that planned to smuggle tens of millions of dollars’ worth of cocaine from Colombia to Mexico for eventual sale in the United States has been extradited from Canada and is scheduled to be arraigned today on federal narcotics charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Butte man having been convicted of a felony was sentenced today to 38 months in prison and three years of supervised release for illegally possessing a gun, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif Johnson said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Leesburg man pleaded guilty today to fraudulently obtaining two loans for over $2.5 million under the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP").
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. -The former president of a New Jersey local union and administrator of two union affiliated benefit funds made her initial appearance today on charges that she embezzled from the union and two union-affiliated employee benefit funds, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Stanley Wayne Zackery, Jr, age 38, of Weleetka, Oklahoma entered a guilty plea to Assault Resulting In Substantial Bodily Injury To A Spouse, Intimate Partner And Dating Partner In Indian Country, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1151, 1153 and 113(a)(7), punishable by not more than 5 years’ imprisonment, a fine up to $250,000.00, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Robert Seifert, age 62, of Utica, New York, was charged by criminal complaint last week for making telephonic threats to employees of the Albany Stratton Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: Today, a federal judge unsealed an indictment charging 20-year-old Tanner Bryce Real of Converse with producing, receiving and possessing child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Gregg N. Sofer and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Michael Kelewood, 35, of To’hajiilee, New Mexico, pleaded guilty in federal court on Jan. 13 to a charge of escape from the custody of the Attorney General.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on the Department of Homeland Security issuing a National Terrorism Advisory System bulletin on the domestic terrorism threat in the wake of the attack on the Capitol...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2021
News Release: Victims of Schemes to Receive $127.5 Million.
