News from March 2021

By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: MOOSE, WY-Boaters to Grand Teton National Park and the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway will have the option to purchase their park boating permits online via Recreation.gov beginning Tuesday, April 6.

By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: Hawaii National Park, HAWAI‘I - In 2020, Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park welcomed 589,775 visitors to Kīlauea and Mauna Loa volcanoes, a 57% decrease from 2019 when the park welcomed 1,368,376 visitors.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A Tyler, Texas woman was sentenced to prison today for a federal drug trafficking crime in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: Miami, Florida - A Boca Raton man pleaded guilty today in West Palm Beach federal court to producing, distributing, and possessing child sexual abuse material.

By EPA Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO), Rep. Marc Veasey (D-TX), and Rep. Lizzie Fletcher (D-TX) wrote to Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) President...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: A Catoosa woman has been indicted for defrauding seven Oklahoma banks when she falsified and submitted documents to apply for $735,396 in loans, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal judge sentenced a Childersburg man yesterday for possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Prim F. Escalona and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp, Jr.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Wayne Davidson, age 27, of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 210 months’ imprisonment followed by a four-year term of supervised release by U.S. District Court Judge Matthew W. Brann for his involvement in a drug trafficking conspiracy.

By Commerce Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, delivered the following remarks at a hearing to vote on the nominations of Adewale Adeyemo, to serve as the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury; Katherine Tai, to be the United States Trade Representative; and Xavier Becerra, to be Secretary of Health and Human Services.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Christopher Algieri, Special Agent in Charge of the Department of Veteran Affairs, Office of the Inspector General, Northeast Field Office, today announced that PHILLIANN BARNETT, 42, a Jamaican citizen residing in New...

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: The defendant began selling weapons after her brother was arrested for the same crime.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: House Ways and Means Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee Chairman Mike Thompson announced today that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing on “Tax Tools to Help Local Governments" on Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 2:00 p.m EST.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - Two Texas men pleaded guilty this week to violent gang-related activities in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei and Nicholas L. McQuaid, Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell has sentenced Asa Nall (50, Largo) to 10 years in federal prison for attempted enticement of a child. The court also ordered Nall to forfeit the electronic devices that were used in commission of the offense.

By DOE Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO), Rep. Marc Veasey (D-TX), and Rep. Lizzie Fletcher (D-TX) wrote to Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) President...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: BROOKLYN, NY - The United States Court for the Eastern District of New York has permanently enjoined a New York company and its operators from manufacturing or distributing dietary supplements unless and until they comply with the law, the Department of Justice Civil Division’s Consumer Protection Branch and the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Yankier Gaston Garcia, of Florida, has admitted to his involvement in the theft of campers from a business in Elkins, West Virginia, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Joni Ernst (R-IA) announced they are reintroducing bipartisan legislation to encourage innovation in contracting and expand opportunities for small businesses to work...

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: Timothy Semones Sentenced to 3 Years in Federal Prison.

By Homeland Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), as Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee, secured a commitment from two Office of Management and Budget (OMB) nominees, Shalanda Young to be Deputy Director and Jason S. Miller to be Deputy Director for...