News from March 2021
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - On Monday, March 22, 2021, at 10:00 a.m., Committee on Oversight and Reform Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer, and Senator Tom Carper will hold a press conference on H.R. 51, the Washington, D.C. Admission Act. Norton first introduced a D.C. statehood bill in 1991. Carper is the lead author of the Senate companion bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A New Bedford man agreed to pleaded guilty yesterday to his role in a cocaine distribution conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton Jr. has sentenced Steven L. Rembert (48, Orange County) to three years in federal prison, to be followed by 3 years supervised release for filing a materially false statement in an application to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for disaster relief benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Khaled Miah, 27, a resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and former student at the University of Pittsburgh, has been charged by Indictment with five counts of making interstate threatening communications, two counts of influencing, impeding or retaliating against a Federal law enforcement officer, and one count of destruction of records in a federal investigation, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By State Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ahead of Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya appearing at her first public hearing before the U.S. Congress, Representatives Meeks and McCaul, the Chair and Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Representatives Keating and Fitzpatrick, the Chair...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: Former Owners of Telemarketing Company Agree to Pay At Least $4 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Aaron Patrick Stamets, of Charles Town, West Virginia, was indicted today on firearms charges, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By State Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
Release: FOREIGN MINISTER MOTEGI: Tony and General - may I call you Lloyd?
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: MACON, Ga. - A convicted felon with a violent criminal history is facing a maximum ten years in federal prison for illegally possessing a firearm, said Peter D. Leary, the Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez sentenced Steven Lawrence Robinson, 34, of Granite Bay, today to five years in prison for conspiring to possess and distribute fentanyl, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Tyrone Wyatt-Smith, of Detroit, Michigan, has admitted to a drug charge, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Chairman Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (D-VA) issued the following statement after the House passed legislation that strengthens federal efforts to prevent and treat child abuse and neglect. The Stronger Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (Stronger CAPTA) provides greater funding and establishes new tools to combat the rising rates of child maltreatment over the past decade.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: ABINGDON, Va.- Brett Becker, the owner of Accelerated Genetix, LLC, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Abingdon to six months home confinement for introducing unapproved new drugs into interstate commerce, Acting United States Attorney Daniel P. Bubar announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky.- Darryl W. Stewart, Jr., 32, of Lexington, was sentenced to 83 months in federal prison on Tuesday, by U.S. District Judge Gregory VanTatenhove, after pleading guilty to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: (St. Marys, GA) Public docking space on the north extension of the Sea Camp Dock located on Cumberland Island is closed during the repair phase of dock reconstruction and for its temporary use for the ferry. This closure is in the interest of public safety, begins Thursday, March 18th and will remain in place until the construction of the Sea Camp Dock is complete. This is anticipated to be by mid-April.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Jose Ceferino Guardado-Reyes, 38, and a citizen of Honduras who had been living in Texas, pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden, to transporting an illegal alien within the United States, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca, Jack Stanton, Acting Special Agent-in-Charge of Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans, and Michael J. Harrison, Acting Chief Patrol Agent of the U.S. Border Patrol’s New Orleans Sector.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: A man who illegally returned to the United States after being deported was sentenced today to eight months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former chief investment officer of a medical property management company pled guilty today to a bank fraud conspiracy involving a $91.5 million commercial mortgage loan, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: Ocala, Florida - A federal jury has found Michael Kendrick (35, Ocala) guilty of possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute, possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, and possession of a firearm as a convicted felon. Kendrick faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years, and up to, life in federal prison. His sentencing is scheduled for June 21, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky.- Darryl W. Stewart, Jr., 32, of Lexington, was sentenced to 83 months in federal prison on Tuesday, by U.S. District Judge Gregory VanTatenhove, after pleading guilty to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
