News from March 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The Justice Department today announced an agreement with the Township of Toms River, New Jersey, to resolve allegations that the township violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), by severely restricting where houses of worship can locate within its jurisdiction.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: Officers seize five pounds of meth from East Missoula shop.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: HOUSTON - A 46-year-old local chiropractor and her medical group have been named in a civil suit under the False Claims Act alleging fraudulent billing, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 10, 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 Innovation and Investment in Water Resources Infrastructure.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ELKIE CRUMP, also known as “40," 39, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall to 51 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for fentanyl and crack cocaine distribution offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: NEW BERN, N.C. - Jarrin Anthony Clarida, age 27, of Wilmington was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for three counts of distribution of a quantity of heroin and one count of possession with the intent to distribute a quantity of heroin. On Dec. 18, 2019 Clarida pled guilty to these charges. All the counts arose out of acts that occurred in the City of Wilmington.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Box Elder, South Dakota, woman convicted of Interference with Commerce by Robbery was sentenced by Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Pawtucket man who traveled from Rhode Island to Winnipeg, Canada, to engage in illicit sexual activity with a 13-year-old girl he befriended on social media was sentenced today to 72 months in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) applauded the final passage of H.R. 1319, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, in the following statement...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Agriculture Committee Chairman David Scott issued the following statement in response to Michael Regan’s Senate confirmation to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack made the following statement today on passage of the American Rescue Plan Act by the U.S. Congress. The bill now goes to President Biden for his signature. For a detailed review, see the USDA fact sheet.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DOMENICO SANDALO, 46, of Norwalk, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant to 120 months of imprisonment, followed by eight years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine and other drugs. Judge Bryant also ordered Sandalo to pay a $5,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Nicole Bracey was sentenced to 3 years of probation for conspiring to launder drug trafficking proceeds between 2017 and 2019, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By State Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
Release: We welcome today’s vote of confidence by the House of Representatives in support of the slate of choices put forward by Interim Prime Minister-designate Abdulhamid Dabaiba for an interim Government of National Unity. This is a milestone toward the fulfillment of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum’s...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) issued the following statement on U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s announcement it encountered over 100,000 illegal immigrants in February, a 28 percent increase over January 2021...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: St. John, USVI - Virgin Islands National Park will hold a “Buoy Blitz" March 14 - 27 to perform mooring buoy maintenance and repair. This skilled work will be accomplished by Virgin Islands National Park’s divers with assistance from NPS divers from Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Dry Tortugas National...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - The former Chief Operating Officer of Global Premier Soccer (GPS), a now defunct youth soccer organization formerly based in Waltham, Mass., pleaded guilty today in connection with a wide-ranging visa fraud conspiracy.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Aviation Rick Larsen (D-WA) observed the second anniversary of the deadly crash of Ethiopian Airlines flight 302. All 157 people onboard died when the Boeing...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Benjamin Tucker Patz, a/k/a “Parlay Patz," (24, Napa, CA) today pleaded guilty to transmitting threats in interstate or foreign commerce. He faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: A man who brandished an assault rifle at a Black Lives Matter protest in Lubbock has been sentenced to 46 months in federal prison, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah.
