News from March 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: For Conspiracy to Distribute Crack Cocaine.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: Wenstrup: The real problem with Democrats’ ‘COVID relief’ bill.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
Release: Digital press briefing on U.S. efforts to combat terrorism in Africa, featuring John T. Godfrey, Acting Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Acting Special Envoy for the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, and Michael C. Gonzales, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of African Affairs. The speakers addressed recent developments in U.S. counterterrorism efforts in Africa, including in the Great Lakes region and Mozambique.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Caesar DiCrecchio, 60, of Voorhees, NJ, was charged by Information with two counts of wire fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, one count of money laundering conspiracy, one count of aggravated identity...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Today, Acting United States Attorney Jonathan F. Lenzner announced that the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland has established a Civil Rights Unit to enhance the Office’s focus on the enforcement and protection of the civil and constitutional rights of all Maryland residents, including the most vulnerable members of our communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 27-year-old Laredo resident has pleaded guilty to a conspiracy which resulted in the death of an undocumented alien, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Keith Robertson, 47, of Manchester, pleaded guilty in federal court to possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: BUSHKILL, PA- Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area has begun construction work for the Watergate Wetlands Restoration Project. The project will restore wetlands, floodplains, and a stream at the Watergate Recreation Site in Hardwick Township, Warren County, New Jersey by removing man-made dams...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - United States Attorney, Gretchen C.F. Shappert for the District of the Virgin Islands announced today that Warren Michael Whyte, a citizen of Guyana, was sentenced after previously pleading guilty to illegally re-entering the United States after being ordered deported and removed.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-The U.S. Department of Energy today announced $18 million in funding for four cutting-edge projects that will help passenger vehicles operate more efficiently, reduce energy consumption, and contribute to the Biden Administration’s goal of reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: Op-Ed: Tax increases are the wrong medicine for our struggling economy.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal jury on Tuesday convicted a Columbiana man for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Mickey French.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: WAYCROSS, Ga. -- A Coffee County man has been sentenced to nearly six years in federal prison after admitting to trafficking methamphetamine.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and twelve Members of Congress wrote to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Acting Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar yesterday urging the Department of Justice (DOJ) to stop defending the exclusion of millions of U.S. citizens who reside in U.S...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
Release: Congressman Mike Quigley (D-IL), Chair of the Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on Oversight of the U.S. Postal Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - In the last week, U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander has sentenced three members of the Monument Street drug trafficking organizations to at least five years in federal prison related to their roles in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine and/or fentanyl in the Monument Street...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: Convicted After Six-Day Federal Trial; Co-conspirators Convinced Vulnerable Elderly Victims to Send Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars to Bank Accounts, Which the Defendant then Helped to Launder.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-In response to President Biden’s national address, Ways and Means Republican Leader Kevin Brady (R-TX) issued the following statement...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: Dems’ $1.9 Trillion Bill Could Raise Borrowing Costs for Government and Consumers.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national, most recently residing in Lawrence, was sentenced yesterday for distribution of cocaine base and illegal re-entry of a deported alien.
