News from March 2021
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - In an op-ed for USA Today , U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, discussed the need to pass a bipartisan surface transportation reauthorization bill. The op-ed comes after the EPW Committee held its ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Four individuals admitted to their roles in conspiring to transport stolen property derived from home burglaries across state lines and related crimes, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was sentenced yesterday in relation to the seizure of over 10 kilograms of fentanyl and heroin in December 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: TEXARKANA, Texas - A correctional officer and federal inmate have been sentenced for a bribery conspiracy in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: Escort Sentenced to Prison for Underreporting Income.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Yesterday, Committee on Oversight and Reform Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney, Committee on Oversight and Reform Vice Chair Jimmy Gomez, and Committee Member Mark DeSaulnier sent letters to four companies seeking information about their plans to use a CARES Act tax provision-meant to help companies struggling during the coronavirus pandemic-to increase tax deductions for litigation costs related to the company’s role in the U.S. opioid crisis.
By State Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
Release: United States Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL). Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO):. Supporting Efforts to Address Mass Graves in Libya. This is the announcement of funding opportunity number SFOP0007645. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 19.345. Type...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: A Kirtland couple has pleaded guilty in federal court to bribery of a former city of Cleveland demolition official in return for favorable service and treatment with building demolition projects.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on Evergreen Fresh Farms Inc. (Evergreen), Oxnard, Calif., for violating the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA). These sanctions include barring the business and the principal operator of the business from engaging in PACA-licensed business or other activities without approval from USDA.
By State Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Representatives Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY), Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Barbara Lee (D-CA), Adam Schiff (D-CA), Jim McGovern (D-MA), and Anthony Brown (D-MD) applauded the Biden Administration’s recent support for reining in executive war power. The lawmakers, who urged Biden.pdf) on his first full day in office to take action on repealing the AUMF, released the following joint statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: GREENBELT, Md. - A federal grand jury has indicted the owner and operator of a purported pain management clinic, as well as two nurse practitioners who were employed at the clinic, on federal charges for conspiracy to distribute and dispense oxycodone and for distribution and dispensing of oxycodone. Charged in the indictment are...
By State Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By State Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
Release: Today, I am announcing the public designation of oligarch and former Ukrainian public official Ihor Kolomoyskyy due to his involvement in significant corruption. In his official capacity as a Governor of Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk Oblast from 2014 to 2015, Kolomoyskyy was involved in corrupt acts that ...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: The National Park Service is preparing to conduct a prescribed fire at Monocacy National Battlefield this month. The tentative target dates are between March 8-12, weather and vegetation conditions permitting.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Anthony Francis Nero, 48, of Eagleville, PA, was arrested by federal authorities and charged by Criminal Complaint on Wednesday, March 3, 2021, on charges of sending threatening communications and cyberstalking. The defendant made his initial appearance in federal court today and was detained until his next hearing on Tuesday, March 9, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Alexis Lopez, 27, and Ivan Irizarry-Ramos, 35, both of Buffalo, NY, were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with conspiring to possess with intent to distribute fentanyl. The charge carries a minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life, and a $10,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: Martinez is the First Latina and Third Woman to Hold the Position.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on Bain Distributors Inc. (Bain), Santa Fe Springs, Calif., for violating the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA). These sanctions include barring the business and the principal operator of the business from engaging in PACA-licensed business or other activities without approval from USDA.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), continued her fight to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour as part of the American Rescue Plan. In a speech on the Senate floor, Senator Murray urged her colleagues...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - First Responders face challenges when they are called to the scene of an incident. Seconds count, and routing provided by in-vehicle terminals or popular navigation apps may help them arrive fast, but does not consider emergency vehicle-specific factors like size and turning radius, road...
