News from March 2021

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
News Release: Bauer Created False Identities to Defraud Victims of $856,422.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal grand jury has indicted two men for allegedly conspiring to violently rob several pawn shops, currency exchanges, and other retail stores in Chicago and the suburbs.

By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
News Release: Canaveral National Seashore is planning to implement prescribed burn operations in the Scrub Jay Burn Unit of Playalinda Beach district (Titusville). Weather permitting, ignition operations are expected in March 2021. The target burn window is only an estimate and may change depending on environmental...

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
News Release: CEO Sentenced to Prison in $150 Million Health Care Fraud, Opioid Distribution, and Money Laundering Scheme.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Ray Roberto Carrion-Susana, of Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, appeared today in federal court to face charges of fraud involving false identification, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
News Release: PHOENIX - The Bureau of Land Management Arizona State Office is seeking a valley teacher (K-12) for the Teacher on the Public Lands, Hands on the Land summer internship program. The teacher intern will be working remotely at home and periodically at the Pueblo Grande Museum during their summer internship.

By US DOT Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.- Today, Chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) released the report from the Department of Transportation Office of Inspector General (DOT OIG) ethics investigation into former Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, questioned Robert Salesses, Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Homeland Defense and Global Security, Department of Defense,...

By USDA Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
Release: Washington - 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 DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
News Release: DAYTON - A Sidney, Ohio, man pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to attempting to produce child pornography. He faces a minimum of 25 years and up to 50 years in prison.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
News Release: Miami, Florida - A South Florida federal grand jury has indicted Tavorris Wilkins, 33, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, with assaulting an Assistant United States Attorney and threatening to assault and kill an Assistant United States Attorney.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging a Herndon man with failing to file Reports of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBARs) and filing false documents with the IRS.

By US DOT Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee held a hearing titled: “Hearing on the Nominations of Brenda Mallory to serve as chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality and Janet McCabe to be Deputy Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency." Below is the opening statement of Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...

By DOE Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
Release: Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on March 2, 2021, Costel Aparaschivei, age 38, of Romania, was sentenced to 45 months’ imprisonment by United States District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani, for bank fraud and identity theft offenses.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA), and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) wrote to Google CEO Sundar Pichai today expressing deep concern over the growing threat of extremist content propagating on YouTube and raising questions over the company’s policies and enforcement efforts to combat extremists and protect viewers.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
News Release: New China Buffett & Grill Used as Employment Site for Undocumented Workers.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS -Trenice Hassel, 28, of St. Louis, Missouri, pleaded guilty to one count of making false statements to a federal agency. Hassel appeared, today, before United States District Court Judge Sarah E. Pitlyk.

By DOE Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
Release: Jigar Shah to Lead Loan Programs Office, Karen Skelton to Serve as Senior Advisor to the Secretary

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing several firearms, including the firearm used in a drive-by shooting.