News from March 2021
By Interior Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: McLean, Va. - On Saturday, March 20, 2021, the National Park Service (NPS) will close both northbound lanes of the George Washington Memorial Parkway to remove two abandoned vehicles that are below the road near the Potomac River. The NPS expects to close the lanes between 6 a.m. and 7 p.m. from Spout...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A Raleigh County pharmacist was sentenced today to 135 months in federal prison for her role in a fraud scheme which cost victims over $2 million in losses. She was also ordered to pay over $2.5 million in restitution to the victims and serve a term of three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: OMAHA, Neb. -The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is reporting a 30 percent increase in fentanyl seizures in Minnesota for 2020, after investigators pulled 6.2 kilograms, or the equivalent of more than three million lethal doses, off the streets. Included in the 6.2 kilograms are more than 55,000 counterfeit pills, many laced with potentially lethal doses of fentanyl.
By State Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
Release: QUESTION: (Via interpreter) So first, you picked Korea and Japan as your first nations to visit after you took office as the Secretary of State. Of course, you spent some time in Korea in 2016 as the deputy secretary, but this time, when you came back here, you were the head of the Department of State.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Agriculture Committee Chair David Scott and key industry stakeholders issued the following statements applauding the House passage of the Farm Workforce Modernization Act...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: Nearly one-half of the country - stretching from the Pacific Coast to the Great Plains and upper Midwest - is currently experiencing moderate to exceptional drought conditions, and that is expected to continue and expand, according to NOAA’s U.S. Spring Outlook released today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - In an ongoing case arising from alleged public corruption by Lynn Haven City’s former Mayor and Attorney, David James Finch, 70, and Antonius Genzarra Barnes, 55, were indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and honest services fraud...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today applauded the Senate vote to confirm California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to be Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). Becerra was approved by the Senate in a 50-49 vote. Wyden released the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: Submitted over 2,000 materially false and fraudulent claims to Medicaid and Medicare.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: Spokane - Joseph H. Harrington, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Josue Medina-Perez, age 24 and Francisco Delgado, age 35, both from Phoenix, Arizona, were sentenced March 17, 2021, after admitting to being members of a drug trafficking organization...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: Twelve San Antonio residents face federal drug trafficking charges, announced U.S. Attorney Ashley C. Hoff and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux, Houston Division.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.99 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the city of Lake City, South Carolina, to make water and sewer infrastructure improvements needed to serve a new hospital building in the region. This EDA grant will be matched with nearly $500,000 in local investment.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Montgomery woman pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Carol Lynn Belton, 61, was one of 14 defendants charged as a result of a long-term investigation known as “Second Wave," which dismantled a poly-drug network operating in Kanawha and Fayette counties.
By State Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
Release: PRESIDENT MOON: (Via interpreter) (In progress) The Republic of Korea was chosen in the Biden-Harris administration’s first cabinet-level overseas trip, and the fact that you two are visiting Korea demonstrates that the Biden-Harris administration (inaudible).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: Fargo - Acting United States Attorney Nick Chase announced that a federal grand jury has indicted Cody James Belgarde, age 34 of Fort Totten, ND, for First Degree Murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Florida man was charged with federal hate crime in Ocala.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: ALBQUERQUE, N.M. - A federal jury in Albuquerque returned guilty verdicts on March 16, convicting Jody Rufino Martinez, 41, of Truchas, New Mexico, of murder, participation in a Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (“RICO") conspiracy, and being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition for conduct related to the Syndicato de Nuevo Mexico (“SNM") prison gang. The jury acquitted Martinez on one count of witness tampering.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: The United States is a country with a lot of economic and political muscle. The country should use that muscle to fight for American jobs and workers. It should also use it, whenever possible, to improve the lives of powerless people around the world. It’s not every day you have an opportunity to talk...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, during a hearing, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), chair of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, highlighted how the investments in the American Rescue Plan and the work of the Biden Administration has finally put our federal COVID response on the right...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the city of Pleasanton, Texas, to renovate a former downtown elementary school for use as a business center...
