News from March 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2021
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina --- Acting United States Attorney M. Rhett DeHart announced today that, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s 2020 Internet Crime Report, South Carolinians lost more than $30 million to cyber criminals in the past year. Acting U.S. Attorney DeHart urges the public to remain vigilant of cybercrimes, so they do not fall victim.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 23, 2021
News Release: SIMI VALLEY, Calif. - EM workers have started demolition on the final five DOE-owned buildings at the former Energy Technology Engineering Center (ETEC).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that two men have been sentenced in the Western District of Louisiana for trafficking heroin and methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2021
News Release: The defendants are facing a forfeiture allegation of $7,200,000.00.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2021
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Raleigh man pled guilty today to setting a fire inside a store in Raleigh after a demonstration over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Richard G. Frohling of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that on March 22, 2021, Dale L. Bauwens (age: 35), previously of Lake Havasu City, Arizona, was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison by Senior District Judge William C. Griesbach.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two members of the Newark street gang known as the “Famous Boyz" were sentenced to prison for conspiring to distribute crack cocaine and heroin, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 23, 2021
News Release: During Tax Oversight Panel, Kelly Warns of Millions of Americans Waiting on Refunds, EIPs, and Employee Retention Credits.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 23, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), cosponsored bipartisan legislation to digitize public land mapping records to increase outdoor recreation and improve hunting and fishing access for sportsmen and women.
By State Newswire | Mar 23, 2021
Release: The United States will co-host a meeting with the Africa Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa (WHO/AFRO), the West African Health Organization (WAHO), and the Governments of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the Republic of Guinea to...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 23, 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 Addressing the Maternal Health Crisis.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2021
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A federal jury today convicted David Sierra Orozco, 31, a Mexican national and recent resident of Georgia, of possessing child pornography.
By State Newswire | Mar 23, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement in response to a resolution on human rights in Sri Lanka was adopted by the U.N. Humans Rights Council...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2021
News Release: NEW YORK - Ray Donovan, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration New York Division, Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Dermot Shea, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department, and Acting Superintendent Kevin P. Bruen, ...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 23, 2021
News Release: Washington - In accordance with guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and DC Health and in consultation with the National Park Service Office of Public Health, the National Park Service will limit all vehicular and pedestrian access to the Tidal Basin, East Potomac Park and West Potomac Park during the peak bloom period of the cherry blossoms as a public health precaution to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2021
News Release: ORLANDO, Fla. - Freddie Miguel Velez-Gonzalez 53, of Orlando, has pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute more than 40 grams of fentanyl and more than 100 grams of heroin, and to six counts of distribution and possession with the intent to distribute controlled substances. Velez-Gonzalez faces a minimum mandatory sentence of five years, and up to 40 years, in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 23, 2021
News Release: Washington - United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development Justin Maxson today announced that USDA is investing $266 million to build and improve critical community facilities (PDF, 162 KB) to benefit nearly 3 million rural residents in 16 states and Puerto...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 23, 2021
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - A review EM recently conducted with oversight by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and state of Idaho found that cleanup decisions and actions at the DOE Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site continue to protect people and the environment.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2021
News Release: TYLER, Texas - Two individuals from Gilmer, Texas have pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit identity theft in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2021
News Release: Defendant Allegedly Received Tips from a Company Insider and a Reporter at a Financial News Organization.
