News from March 2021
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC- Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) today released the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives approved the American Rescue Plan and sent the legislation to President Biden to be signed into law.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to illegally possessing a firearm and ammunition and failing to register as a sex offender.
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 DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Acting United States Attorney Lisa G. Johnston announced today that Curtis Watson, 52, of Detroit, Michigan, was sentenced to a total of 295 months in prison and five years of supervised release. He was previously convicted by a federal jury of conspiracy to distribute heroin, using...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced today that Trashaun Black, 28, of Wilmington, was sentenced by the Honorable Leonard P. Stark to 50 months in prison after a Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA") investigation in Wilmington, Delaware. According...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: San Juan, PR - The U.S. Marshals-led Puerto Rico Violent Offenders Task Force arrested a suspected leader of a drug trafficking organization (DTO) wanted in the Southern District of New York.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: Great Sand Dunes is actively recruiting energetic, committed young adults who are interested in a career with a federal land agency for this year’s Conservation Internship Program. The internship program recruits young adults from San Luis Valley communities to work at Great Sand Dunes National Park...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man was charged in federal district court with Receipt of Child Pornography and Possession of Child Pornography.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
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By Commerce Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, spoke on the House Floor in support of the Senate amendment to H.R. 1319, the “American Rescue Plan Act of 2021." Below are her remarks, as prepared for delivery.
By State Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today led eight Republican colleagues in re-introducing the Strengthening Trade, Regional Alliances, Technology, and Economic and Geopolitical Initiatives Concerning China Act (STRATEGIC Act) to advance a comprehensive strategy for U.S. competition with the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Stoughton man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for distributing fentanyl and crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Trenton man was sentenced today to 48 months in prison for unlawfully possessing a semi-automatic rifle while attempting to sell it to another individual, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By State Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: Washington-Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today delivered the following opening remarks at a full committee hearing with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the Biden Administration’s priorities for U.S. foreign policy...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: Kremmling, Colo. - Beginning March 10, new day-use season pass decals for the Upper Colorado River Recreation Sites are now available.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on March 9, 2021, Marien Torres-Acevedo, age 38, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 75 months’ imprisonment by United States District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani, for conspiring to defraud the government and for committing aggravated identity theft.
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: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Sean Christopher Williams, 40, of Sandy Springs, GA, was sentenced to three years in prison, five years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $185,920 in restitution by United States District Court Judge John R. Padova for a nationwide bank fraud and identity theft scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: Kremmling, Colo. - Beginning March 10, new day-use season pass decals for the Upper Colorado River Recreation Sites are now available.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2021
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A Romanian National was sentenced to federal prison today for his role in a bank fraud scheme wherein he and an accomplice used counterfeit credit and debit cards to withdraw money from local banks, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Scott Erik Asphaug.
