News from March 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2021
News Release: PROVIDENCE - An Indian national who owned and operated an India-based call center that targeted and defrauded Americans, mostly senior citizens, and who assisted other India-based call centers in doing the same, that collectively intended to bilk Americans out of millions of dollars, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Providence to three years in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement regarding the departure of Ways and Means Committee chief trade counsel Katherine Tai, who has been confirmed by the Senate to serve as the United States Trade Representative...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Westfield woman pleaded guilty in federal court in Springfield yesterday to conspiracy to commit sex trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2021
News Release: Spokane - Joseph H. Harrington, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced the Indictment of Timothy Richard Ray Riggins, age 32, of Moses Lake, Washington, in connection with possession of an unregistered firearm/destructive device, in violation of 26 U.S.C. §§ 5845(a)(8), (f), and 5861(d). If proved, the offense carries a potential penalty of up to ten years in prison, a $10,000 fine, and up to three years supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Subcommittee Chairman on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties Steve Cohen (D-TN) released the following joint statement on the shooting of eight people in Georgia yesterday...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 17, 2021
Release: Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Chair of the Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on Domestic Manufacturing for a Clean Energy Future.
By State Newswire | Mar 17, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement on the covert and malign influence operations targeting the American people during the 2020 U.S. elections by Russia, Iran, and other foreign and criminal actors.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2021
News Release: BANGOR, Maine: A Caribou man pleaded guilty in federal court today to conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, Acting U.S. Attorney Donald E. Clark announced.
By State Newswire | Mar 17, 2021
Release: QUESTION: Okay. Japan and the U.S. just have agreed to take a tougher stance on China’s aggression and threats, but economically Japan and China are enormously intertwined, and Japan has not been able to decouple from China. Would the U.S. be satisfied with this situation?
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2021
News Release: A federal judge in San Antonio yesterday sentenced 40-year-old Clarence McFarland to 37 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for fraudulent purchases of.50 caliber rifles, announced U.S. Attorney Ashley C. Hoff, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Deputy Special Agent in Charge Craig Larrabee, San Antonio Division and Special Agent in Charge Fred Milanowski, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Houston Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2021
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Robert L. Gregory, of Columbus, Ohio, was sentenced today to 210 months of incarceration for a drug charge, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2021
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - A Wilmington man was sentenced on March 10, 2021 by The Honorable Leonard P. Stark, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the District of Delaware, to 10 years in prison for possessing more than five kilograms of cocaine, as well as marijuana and MDMA (ecstasy), all with intent to distribute.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Republican leaders sent a letter to Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen highlighting the urgent need for guidance and requesting clarification from the Treasury Department on questions pertaining to the Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery and Coronavirus Local Fiscal Recovery...
By State Newswire | Mar 17, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC- Representatives Gregory W. Meeks, Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Michael McCaul, Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today 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 USDA Newswire | Mar 17, 2021
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 1,224,000 metric tons of corn for delivery to China during the 2020/2021 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2021
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Cranston man arrested for his alleged role in the torching of a Providence Police Department cruiser during the riots of 2020 is expected to plead guilty to a federal information charging him with malicious attempt to damage or destroy a vehicle, according to documents filed in federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2021
News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Catherine Verdon, 46, of Middletown Springs, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Rutland following her guilty plea to an indictment charging her with making false statements to obtain federal and state program benefit...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-This month’s Fly Safe campaign topic looks at how pilots can maintain proficiency with the Federal Aviation Administration ’s (FAA) WINGS Pilot Proficiency Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Kanawha County woman pleaded guilty today to possession with intent to distribute five grams or more of methamphetamine. Raechel Cooper, 30, was charged by a single count Information on March 8, 2021.
By State Newswire | Mar 17, 2021
Release: MR RAPSON: Hello, everyone. Mission Seoul Colleagues, family members, thank you for being with us - or, I should say, Zooming in with us - for this afternoon’s very special occasion. As our time is limited, though, let me get right to the point: I’m absolutely delighted to introduce to you our Secretary...
