News from March 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: ROANOKE, Va. -Monta Jordan, a convicted drug kingpin who was subject to one of the largest fentanyl seizures in Virginia at the time, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Roanoke to 240 months in federal prison, Acting United States Attorney Daniel P. Bubar; Jared Forget, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) Washington Division, and Col. Gary T. Settle, Superintendent of the Virginia State Police announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) updates regarding nursing home guidance, including revised visitation recommendations.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Committee Republicans sent another letter to U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas reiterating their concerns about the Biden Administration’s recent actions to unravel the former...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Kelsey A. Mulvey, 28, of Grand Island, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael J. Roemer to tampering with a consumer product. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - Federal authorities this morning arrested two employees of the U.S. Postal Service who allegedly abused their positions to purchase and cash Postal money orders with tens of thousands of dollars of unemployment benefits fraudulently obtained with false claims of COVID-related job losses.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A federal jury convicted a Richmond man today for distributing fentanyl on multiple occasions.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
Release: Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA), Chair of the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on Modernizing the Federal Civilian Approach to Cybersecurity.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RAKEEM GRANT, 32, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 27 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for possession of a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon, and while he was on supervised release following a prior federal conviction for the same offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: ROCKFORD - A former employee of the City of Rochelle, Ill., pleaded guilty Tuesday to wire fraud for fraudulently obtaining at least $150,000 from a non-profit business association.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: Computer Security and Telemarketing Fraud Ring Targeted Senior Citizens.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today hailed House passage of the American Rescue Plan, which already passed the Senate and which now heads to President Biden’s desk. The bill includes increased funding for coronavirus response in Indian Country, new federal resources to track and control the sources of wildlife-borne diseases, and the ability to enforce stronger limits on trade in dangerous animals.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on Department of Labor’s announcement that it would not enforce recent rules from the Trump Administration restricting the use of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria in investment decisions for ERISA plans or making it harder for ERISA plans to exercise shareholder rights through voting proxies.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a three-count indictment charging Richard Lafrance, 34, of Jamestown, NY, with enticement, production of child pornography, and committing certain crimes while required to register as a sex offender. The charges carry a minimum sentence of 45 years in prison, and a maximum penalty of life.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violating federal narcotics and gun laws, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Terray Morrison, 32, of Nashua, was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute, and possess with intent to distribute, controlled substances, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Belle Fourche, South Dakota, man convicted of Attempted Receipt of Child Pornography was sentenced on Feb. 26, 2021, by Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: A Lubbock area bank robber was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison, the statutory maximum, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: HOUSTON - A 51-year-old Mexican citizen who legally resided in Houston has been ordered to federal prison for leading a cocaine trafficking organization, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By State Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
Release: The United States extends its deepest condolences to the victims, families, and loved ones of those affected by the devastating explosions in Bata on March 7. We stand with the people of Equatorial Guinea in the aftermath of this tragedy.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: Defendant captured on video stealing rifle, torching car, and fighting with another protestor.
