News from March 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Sean P. Costello of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Aaron Lavell Lamar, 30, of Foley, Alabama, was sentenced in federal court for being a convicted felon in possession of firearms. Lamar pleaded guilty to the charge in December 2020.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 17, 2021
News Release: Devils Postpile National Monument will open civic engagement on Wednesday, March 17, 2021 for a proposed project that will improve the park's wastewater system. This project will test percolation rates for and install a new leach field, septic tanks, and associated piping for the wastewater system which serve the visitor center and administrative areas of the park.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2021
News Release: In Del Rio today, federal authorities filed a criminal complaint charging 24-year-old Austin resident Sebastian Tovar with transporting illegal aliens resulting in death, announced U.S. Attorney Ashley C. Hoff and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Shane Folden, San Antonio Division.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, delivered the following remarks at a hearing entitled, “A National Tragedy: COVID-19 in the Nation’s Nursing Homes.".
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 17, 2021
News Release: DENVER - One year after the Magna Earthquake shook Salt Lake and Davis counties, federal agencies have provided more than $3.3 million in loans and grants to help Utahns recover from the Magna Earthquake and aftershocks. Utah received a major disaster declaration on July 9, 2020 opening the door for federal assistance.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 17, 2021
Release: Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D-MN), Chair of the Defense Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on Climate Change, National Security, and the Arctic.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 17, 2021
News Release: EM ’s goals for continued safe progress at its sites and its efforts to strengthen the workforce and build partnerships were undaunted during the past year marked by the COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 17, 2021
News Release: EM sites provided updates on their cleanup progress during individual sessions at Waste Management Symposia 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2021
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis has sentenced Cleophus McCaskill (51, Jacksonville) to nine years in federal prison for possessing firearms as a convicted felon. The court also ordered McCaskill to forfeit the firearms and ammunition used in the offense.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 17, 2021
News Release: “Mr. Chairman, thank you. I’d like to welcome the new Members of the Subcommittee. The Subcommittee has not held a hearing since October 2nd, which strikes us as extraordinary. Speaker Pelosi stood this up to deal with a pandemic, yet we have gone 5 months without a single hearing - during some of the most impactful months of the pandemic. 5 months without investigating...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2021
News Release: For more than a year, cyber security consultant allegedly sent electronic messages and made social media posts threatening sexual assault and other violence against multiple victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2021
News Release: ATLANTA - A Cypriot national who hacked into major websites as a teenager and threatened that he would release stolen user information unless the websites paid a ransom has been sentenced to federal prison. The defendant, Joshua Polloso Epifaniou, is the first Cypriot national ever extradited from Cyprus to the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, woman who pleaded guilty to Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on March 12, 2021, by U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey L. Viken.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2021
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced today that James Marquand, 39, of Madison, Ohio, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Sara Lioi to a term of 420 months imprisonment and ordered to pay $13,000 in restitution after he pleaded guilty in October of 2020 to sexual exploitation of children...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2021
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A federal grand jury indicted a convicted felon yesterday for unlawful possession of drugs with intent to distribute - specifically, methamphetamine, cocaine, and heroin - and unlawful possession of a firearm, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Christopher Chiou for the District of Nevada.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 17, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The following are opening remarks, as prepared for delivery, from Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) during today’s hearing titled, “The Business Case for Climate Solutions." Video of DeFazio’s opening statement is here. More information on the hearing can be found here.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 17, 2021
News Release: MORENO VALLEY, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Palm Springs-South Coast Field Office is initiating environmental review and seeking public scoping comments on an environmental analysis and land-use plan amendment for a proposed 500-megwatt photovoltaic solar project on public lands in eastern Riverside County.
By State Newswire | Mar 17, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul and Chairman Gregory W. Meeks issued the following statement after a briefing by the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for members of the Committee on the growing humanitarian crisis and ethnic conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray Region. .
By State Newswire | Mar 17, 2021
Release: Today, the UN Human Rights Council adopted the report of the third Universal Periodic Review (UPR) for the United States. All UN member states participate in the UPR process, which is designed to ensure that every nation is subject to scrutiny of its human rights record.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2021
News Release: HARRISONBURG, Va. - Paul Wayne Shell, a convicted felon prohibited from possessing explosive materials, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to possessing a series of military grade explosives items, Acting United States Attorney Daniel P. Bubar and Ashan M. Benedict, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Washington Field Division announced today.
