News from March 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - Randy James, 56, the former City Clerk of Bay Springs in Jasper County, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Taylor McNeel, for the federal crimes of money laundering and making false statements on a federal tax return, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JENNIFER FARRELL, 38, of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, pleaded guilty today to a narcotics distribution offense related to her illegally writing numerous prescriptions for oxycodone while she was a doctor in New Haven.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today released new data from the fourth phase of the Small Business Pulse Survey (SBPS). Data collection began Feb. 15. Results will be released weekly Feb. 25 to April 22. The SBPS includes questions on topics such as location closings, changes in employment, disruptions in the...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - US Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Ranking Member of the Judiciary Committee, reintroduced bipartisan legislation to strengthen a 2008 Inspector General (IG) protection law. The Securing Inspector...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) announced today that the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee will hold a fully remote hearing on Thursday, March 11, at 10:30 a.m. (EST) on the risks increased...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: Kula, Maui - In 2020, 319,147 people visited Haleakalā National Park. Compared to visitation in 2019, visitation was down by 67.9% (675,247 fewer visits). The decrease was due largely to temporary park closures implemented in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The last time Haleakalā National Park had visitation this low was in 1972 (271,326 total visits).
By EPA Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in response to the International Code Council (ICC) announcing that it is replacing the current government consensus process for developing energy codes with a standards-based process...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: In a new letter, House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03), Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Subcommittee Chair Matt Cartwright (D-PA-08), and Democratic Members of the House Appropriations Committee today urged President Biden to nominate Shalanda Young as Director of the Office of the Management and Budget.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Kevin Weems, age 61, of Albany, was charged by complaint today with unlawfully possessing a firearm as a felon.
By State Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - House Foreign Affairs Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) and House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Mike Rogers (R-AL) released the following statement after reports that the Biden Administration secretly imposed limitations on our military and intelligence personnel to counter terrorists outside conventional battlefield zones...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: BANGOR, Maine: A Fairfield woman was sentenced today in federal court for conspiring to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances, Acting U.S. Attorney Donald E. Clark announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.5 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to Natural Capital Investment Fund, Inc., (NCIF), Charles Town, West Virginia, to provide the staffing and technical assistance capacity needed...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) announced today that the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee will hold a fully remote hearing on Thursday, March 11, at 10:30 a.m. (EST) on the risks increased...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - An indictment charging Gerardo Gomez-Lubo, a/k/a Francisco Niño (42, Colombia), with conspiracy to distribute large amounts of cocaine knowing and intending it to be imported into the United States was unsealed today. If convicted on all counts, Gerardo Gomez-Lubo faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon hosted a virtual news conference today with Deputy Chief Robert Wemyss of the United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) and Erin Mitchell, Director of Engagement for AARP NY, to draw attention to the proliferation of scams targeting older Americans.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Late Wednesday afternoon, a federal jury in Pensacola convicted Tony M. Streeter, of Fort Walton Beach, on multiple drug charges, firearms offenses, and a conspiracy to commit arson related offense. The convictions, which followed a three-day jury trial that began Monday morning, was announced by Jason R. Coody, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), delivered the following remarks at a hearing entitled, “Hearing to Consider the Nomination of David M. Turk to be the Deputy Secretary of Energy."
By DOE Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in response to the International Code Council (ICC) announcing that it is replacing the current government consensus process for developing energy codes with a standards-based process...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) announced the creation of the Committee’s Racial Equity Initiative (REI) and appointed Rep. Terri Sewell (D-AL), Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), and Rep. Steven Horsford (D-NV) to lead the working group. The REI represents...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $552,733 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to Missouri Main Street Connection, Inc., Branson, Missouri, to assist Missouri communities in responding to and recovering from the coronavirus pandemic...
