News from March 2021
By Interior Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: Rocky Mountain National Park will be implementing a new pilot temporary timed entry permit reservation system beginning on May 28, 2021. Park staff are managing for significant increases in visitation to public lands in Colorado, including Rocky Mountain National Park, along with continued Covid-19 concerns, ongoing park seasonal staff shared housing challenges, reduced shuttle bus capacity and residual fire impacts in some areas of the park from historic fires in 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - Angel Perez-Valezquez, a citizen of Guatemala, pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Taylor B. McNeel to the crime of causing misuse of a social security number, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Darren LaMarca and Jack P. Stanton, Acting Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans.
By State Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
Release: Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry will travel to Abu Dhabi, New Delhi, and Dhaka April 1-9, 2021, for consultations on increasing climate ambition ahead of President Biden’s Leaders Summit on Climate April 22-23 and the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change later this year. For media inquiries, please contact ClimateComms@state.gov.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today on President Biden's transformational American Jobs Plan...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On Tuesday, March 30, 2021, United States District Court Senior Judge James E. Gritzner sentenced Jaime Morales Cisneros, age 27, of Corydon, to 126 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute five grams or more of actual methamphetamine announced Acting United States Attorney Richard...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy & Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) releases a statement on President Biden’s expected announcement today...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Today, Acting United States Attorney Jonathan F. Lenzner and Special Agent in Charge Jennifer C. Boone of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Baltimore Field Office today condemned bigotry and hatred against the Asian American and Pacific Islander community, and encouraged members of the public to report to law enforcement incidents of violence, threats and harassment.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the conviction in Manhattan federal court of ALAN KAUFMAN for participating in a scheme in which KAUFMAN, who was then the Chief Executive Officer of Melrose Credit Union (“Melrose CU"), accepted rent-free housing...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - James Jackson, 35, of Lebanon, pleaded guilty in federal court to possession of ammunition by a prohibited person, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: DeepDotWeb Administrator Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering Conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: Prosecution Comes as Part of “Operation Pine Curtain," a Multiagency Effort of Federal, State, and Local Law Enforcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - An Israeli national pleaded guilty today for his role in operating DeepDotWeb (DDW), a website that connected Internet users with Darknet marketplaces, where they purchased illegal firearms, malware and hacking tools, stolen financial data, heroin and fentanyl, and other contraband.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: The following is the statement from Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) regarding the President’s infrastructure plan...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago consultant was indicted today on tax offenses for allegedly underreporting and failing to file federal income taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal grand jury on Monday indicted the owner and operator of a Birmingham tax preparation service on tax charges, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona, and IRS Criminal Investigations Atlanta Field Office Special Agent in Charge James Dorsey.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: Defendant allegedly submitted fraudulent documentation purporting that he was president of two LLCs when he was actually in federal custody.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, released the below statement regarding President Joe Biden's proposal announced today...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: Former Intelligence Analyst Pleads Guilty to Disclosing Classified Information.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: San Antonio, Texas - San Antonio Missions National Historical Park and UNESCO World Heritage Site plans to expand visitor services at all sites Wednesdays through Sundays, this Wednesday March 24 with the reopening of the park bookstore now open Wednesdays through Sunday 10am-4pm.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2021
News Release: Ocala, FL - United States District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr., has sentenced Jose Merced Sanchez De La Torre (43, Ocala) to 46 months in federal prison for illegal reentry by a previously deported alien and unlawful possession of a firearm by an alien. Sanchez De La Torre had pleaded guilty on Sept. 24, 2020.
