News from March 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
News Release: Los Angeles - Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Mexican national Juan Manuel Abouzaid El Bayeh (“Abouzaid El Bayeh") as a Specially Designated Narcotics Trafficker pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (Kingpin Act). OFAC...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Michael S. Frawley was sentenced to 150 months in prison for conspiring to distribute at least 500 grams of cocaine and K2 controlled substances (Schedule I synthetic cannabinoids) while on federal supervised release in 2018, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By EPA 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 State Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
Release: QUESTION: Secretary of State Tony Blinken, welcome to the NewsHour. Thank you very much for joining us. The world looks a lot more complicated today, I think it’s fair to say, than it did just a few months ago. There are problems bubbling up just about everywhere. And in your statement today, you made a clear focus on American workers right here at home. Explain how that connects to what the U.S. challenges are around the world.
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 on the nominations of Brenda Mallory to serve as Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and Janet McCabe to be Deputy Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), as prepared for delivery...
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 EPA Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced today that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a fully remote hearing on Wednesday, March 10, at 10:30 a.m. (EST) on the critical need to restore...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
News Release: Dayton, OH - U.S. Marshal Pete Tobin is pleased to announce that a combined effort during the morning hours of March 3, 2021 resulted in the arrest of Andrew Gonnella. Gonnella was wanted by the United States Marshals Service for being a fugitive from Sweden; wherein, he faces charges for gross rape...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 34-year-old Houston resident has entered a guilty plea in Corpus Christi federal court to transporting nearly 40 kilograms of pure meth with the intent to distribute, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced today that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a fully remote hearing on Wednesday, March 10, at 10:30 a.m. (EST) on the critical need to restore...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Pittsburgh man was sentenced today to 126 months in prison for conducting sexually explicit online communications and traveling to Virginia in an attempt to engage in a sexual relationship with a fictitious 10-year-old girl.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) issued the following statement on the U.S. Department of Transportation Office of the Inspector General report exonerating former Secretary Elaine Chao of any wrongdoing...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI - A 40-year-old Texan has been ordered to federal prison following receipt of more than 5,000 images of child pornography, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
News Release: GRAND COULEE, Wash. - The Bureau of Reclamation announced today that it has terminated the Grand Coulee Fire Station contract with Innovative Construction and Design, a small business out of Post Falls, Idaho. This is the second termination Reclamation has executed for the contract.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
News Release: WILMINGTON, N.C. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment last week, charging a Cameron man with Bribery, Conspiracy to Introduce Contraband into a Prison, and Introducing Contraband.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today gave the following opening remarks at a full committee nomination hearing for the Honorable Wendy Sherman, nominee to be deputy secretary of State, and the Honorable Brian McKeon, nominee to be deputy secretary of State for management and resources.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned two separate indictments against Joseph Bella, 48, of Buffalo, NY. A superseding indictment charges the defendant with possessing with intent to distribute, and distributing cocaine; maintaining...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
Release: On March 3, the United States and the Netherlands hosted an experts’ meeting on the comprehensive implementation of maritime aspects of United Nations Security Council resolutions on countries such as the DPRK. More than 40 countries attended and shared measures to enhance their enforcement of maritime security by activities such as conducting industry outreach on sanctions risk, issuing advisory documents on sanctions compliance, and sharing information on suspect vessels.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC- Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) renewed his call for passing a transformational infrastructure bill in the new Congress after the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) gave U.S. infrastructure an overall grade of C- on its 2021 Infrastructure Report Card.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2021
News Release: LOUISVILLE, KY - Three people have been charged with the murder of a witness aiding a federal investigation, announced Acting United States Attorney Michael A. Bennett.
