News from March 2021
By USDA Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Agriculture Committee Chair David Scott issued the following statement applauding the introduction of the Farm Workforce Modernization Act...
By Commerce 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 DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Four men from the Atlanta, GA, area have been charged in federal court in Providence, RI, for allegedly operating a long-running scheme in which homeless and transient individuals from the Providence area were recruited to cash counterfeit business checks in exchange for a cash payment.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: MACON, Ga. - A Macon probationer was sentenced to serve more than nine years in federal prison for attempting to distribute 1.3 kilograms of methamphetamine, said Peter D. Leary, the Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
By Commerce 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: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Acting U.S. Attorney William T. Stetzer announced today that a Utah man appeared in federal court and pleaded guilty to federal charges for orchestrating an investment scheme involving mining for precious metals. Andrew Malcolm Lovett, 59, a former resident of Cornelius, N.C., currently residing in Utah, pleaded guilty to securities fraud and transactional money laundering before U.S. Magistrate Judge David C. Keesler.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
Release: Funding Supports Small Businesses Working on Climate Change Solutions
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A leader of the Rhode Island Chapter of the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (“Latin Kings") was sentenced yesterday on conspiracy charges.
By Commerce 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 3, 2021
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
News Release: WICHITA, Kans. - The Drug Enforcement Administration Wichita Resident Office announced today the launch of Operation Engage, a new comprehensive law enforcement and prevention initiative aimed at reducing drug use, abuse, and overdose deaths.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Chong Chueneng Moua, 52, St. Paul, Minnesota, pleaded guilty and was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 84 months in federal prison for his role in supplying methamphetamine to a distribution conspiracy operating in Wausau, Wisconsin.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
News Release: The Defendant Engaged in Drug Trafficking While on Supervised Release for a Prior Federal Drug Conviction.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
Release: United States Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL). Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO):. DRL Strengthening Worker’s Rights in Armenia. This is the announcement of funding opportunity number SFOP0007619. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 19.345. Type of ...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC—This afternoon, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and a bipartisan delegation from the U.S. Conference of Mayors met virtually to discuss critical issues facing American cities. The Secretary and the mayors discussed the need to rebuild the immigration system to make it more ...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
News Release: USDA Deploys 487 Disaster, Public Health Specialists to Assist with Federal Response WASHINGTON, Mar. 3, 2021 — In January 2021, President Biden released the National Strategy for the COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness. The plan is driven by science, data, and public health to improve the effectiveness of our nation’s fight against COVID-19 and to restore trust, accountability and a sense of common purpose in our response to the pandemic.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
News Release: Through administrative actions and support provided by the American Rescue Plan Act, USDA will increase support for families struggling to put food on the table WASHINGTON, March 3, 2021 — The COVID-19 public health and economic crisis is bigger than any other we’ve seen in our lifetimes — while the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that it has reached a settlement with Geisinger Health (Geisinger) and Evangelical Community Hospital (Evangelical) that will resolve the department’s ongoing civil antitrust litigation challenging Geisinger’s partial acquisition of Evangelical. Among other terms, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
News Release: The chief executive officer of a Michigan and Ohio-based group of pain clinics and other medical providers was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for developing and approving a corporate policy to administer unnecessary back injections to patients in exchange for prescriptions of over 6.6 million doses of medically unnecessary opioids.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – An Illinois man was sentenced today to 12 years in prison for conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham, a foreign terrorist organization (aka ISIS).
