News from March 2021
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its 2021 High-Risk List, an inventory of government operations most vulnerable to waste, fraud, abuse, mismanagement, or insufficiency, that is updated at the start of each Congress. The 2021 List and accompanying report describe the status of high-risk areas relative to the 2019 report and identify new areas of concern, including the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
By State Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC -House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul has released the following statement on the Biden Administration’s announcement the United States, in coordination with the European Union, has imposed new sanctions on senior members of the Russian government in response...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Dallas Edward Weber, Jr. and Ashley Marie Weber, both of Thornton, West Virginia, were indicted today on a child pornography charge, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: SALMON, Idaho - Effective March 3, the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Salmon Field Office will temporarily close the Discovery Hill Bluffs Road due to highly erosive soil conditions. Idaho's weather is changing by the minute, and increased moisture from snow melt is affecting some recreational areas. The road will reopen as soon as soil conditions dry out enough to reduce erosion concerns.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney W. Anders Folk today announced the sentencing of ROBERT JOHN HAGER, 70, a former bank CEO, to 18 months in prison for making a false entry in bank records. HAGER, who pleaded guilty on May 18, 2020, was sentenced earlier today by Judge Patrick J. Schiltz in U.S. District Court.
By State Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul has issued the following statement as the United States takes the position of Chair on the United Nations Security Council for the month of March.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: A Broken Arrow man pleaded guilty today for fraudulently applying for a Paycheck Protection Program forgivable loan guaranteed by the Small Business Administration under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: Opening remarks, as prepared, of Subcommittee on Aviation Ranking Member Garret Graves (R-LA) from today’s hearing entitled, “COVID-19’s Effects on U.S. Aviation and the Flight Path to Recovery":
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard has sentenced Anthony Grier (Jacksonville, 33) to 10 months in federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for possessing marijuana while in federal custody at the Nassau County Jail. This sentence has been ordered to run consecutive to a 7-month federal sentence Grier was already serving, as well as consecutive to an additional 3-month state sentence he had received for battery on an inmate.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 48-year-old Corpus Christi resident has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of conspiring to distribute 243 grams of meth, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of bank robbery, armed bank robbery, and using and carrying a firearm during a crime of violence, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: HOUSTON - A 24-year-old Houston resident has been ordered to federal prison for 24 years, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By State Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price:.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: Texarkana, Arkansas - David Clay Fowlkes, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Andre Scoggins, 50, of Mineral Springs, Arkansas, was sentenced today to 120 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for Distributing more than 50 grams of methamphetamine. The Honorable Chief Judge Susan O. Hickey presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court’s Texarkana Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Myron Rodos, 80, of Ambler, PA, was sentenced to five years in prison, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay a fine of $300,000 by United States District Court Judge Chad F. Kenney for distributing controlled substances, namely opioids, outside the course of professional conduct and not for a legitimate medical purpose.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Carlo Di Padova, age 61, an inmate at Great Meadow Correctional Facility in Comstock, New York, pled guilty on February 25 to threatening a federal official, by sending a letter to a United States Senator that contained a white powdery substance and stated that Di Padova planned to have someone shoot the Senator in the head.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: Compton, AR- The National Park Service worked with numerous local agencies, along with volunteers, to rescue an injured park visitor over the weekend. Late Saturday, Feb. 27, 2021, a 60-year-old man from Bella Vista, AR was hiking with his son when he suffered an injury and was unable to hike out...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: CORINTH, Mississippi - On Tuesday, March 9, at 11:30 am, the National Park Service will present a special program at the Corinth Contraband Camp. This lunch-time program featuring Park Ranger Tom Parson, will share the history of the Contraband Camp and focus on members of the Guy family who fled from bondage in Tuscumbia, Alabama, to the safety behind Union lines at Corinth.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
Release: House Appropriations Committee Chair and Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee Chair Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's Health and Safety Protections for Meatpacking, Poultry, and Agricultural Workers Hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: Served as Administrator of Online Community Interested in Sexual Abuse of Children While Working as Middle School Aide.
