News from March 2021
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 12, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes a $115,500 civil penalty against Fenix Air Charter, of Spartanburg, S.C., for allegedly conducting charter flights in an aircraft that did not comply with airworthiness regulations.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2021
News Release: A federal grand jury sitting in Cleveland has handed down an indictment charging Richard Gould, 65, of Strongsville, with two counts of making and subscribing false tax returns.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 12, 2021
News Release: Albuquerque, N.M. - Underscoring its commitment to community engagement and transparency, the National Park Service (NPS) today announced the results of an internal affairs investigation following a December 2020 law enforcement incident at Petroglyph National Monument. Following the incident, the NPS...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 12, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Republican Leader of the Energy and Commerce Committee Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Democratic Chair of the Energy Subcommittee Bobby Rush (D-IL) sent a letter today urging Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo to address the need for increased U.S. leadership in the innovation...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2021
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA: An Augusta woman has been charged with sex trafficking in a newly unsealed federal indictment that files additional charges against the man to whom she was married at the time of the alleged offenses.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 12, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, penned an op-ed for The State Journal highlighting the importance of natural gas as a low-carbon energy source and the headwinds the natural gas industry will be facing in the Biden administration.
By State Newswire | Mar 12, 2021
Release: On behalf of the Government of the United States of America, I congratulate you on the 53rd anniversary of independence.
By State Newswire | Mar 12, 2021
Release: The Department of State, on behalf of the American people, offers its sincere condolences to South Africa and the Zulu people on the passing of His Majesty King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Peter C. Fitzhugh, Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI"), Philip R. Bartlett, Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the United States Postal Inspection...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2021
News Release: Benton, Ill. - Shawn E. Whitecotton, 50, of Herrin, Illinois, was sentenced to 16 months.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 12, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.5 million grant to the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research (IALR), Danville, Virginia, to purchase equipment needed to support advanced manufacturing...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican man previously residing in Lawrence was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with drug trafficking activities involving fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 12, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.3 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Colorado Department of Local Affairs, Denver, Colorado, to help rural Colorado communities develop...
By State Newswire | Mar 12, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 12, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Republican Leader of the Energy and Commerce Committee Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Democratic Chair of the Energy Subcommittee Bobby Rush (D-IL) sent a letter today urging Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo to address the need for increased U.S. leadership in the innovation...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2021
News Release: Four Additional Members of Los Angeles-Based Fraud Ring Indicted for Exploiting COVID-Relief Programs.
By State Newswire | Mar 12, 2021
Release: The Department has designated Ambassador Pamela Spratlen to serve as the Senior Advisor to the Health Incident Response Task Force (HIRTF), reporting directly to the Department’s senior leadership. Since its creation in 2018, the HIRTF has served as the coordinating body for the Department and interagency’s...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 12, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes a $14,500 civil penalty against an airline passenger for allegedly interfering with flight attendants who instructed him to wear a face mask and stop consuming alcohol he had brought on board the aircraft.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - Robert J. Bell, Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and John R. Lausch, Jr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois announced, a federal grand jury in Chicago has indicted five suspected associates of the Sinaloa...
