News from March 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Ricco Darnell Taylor, age 32, of Capitol Heights, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to manufacturing and passing counterfeit currency.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A former employee of a family-owned plumbing business in Millbury was sentenced today for drug, money laundering and fraud convictions arising from his role in a large-scale marijuana grow operation.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
Release: Congressman Tim Ryan (D-OH), Chair of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on the Open World FY 2022 Budget.
By State Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Representatives Gregory W. Meeks, Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and William Keating, Chair of the Europe, Energy, Environment and Cyber Subcommittee, today issued the following statement on the Biden Administration’s announcement of sanctions against Russian individuals responsible for the attempted assassination of Alexei Navalny...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau released the total number of 2020 Census paid temporary workers that earned any pay Feb. 14 - Feb. 20, 2021. The data tables include national totals for all 50 states and the District of Columbia by Census Bureau regional geography. A weekly number of paid temporary workers for Puerto Rico is also available. The weekly release will occur 10 days after the end of the weekly period.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM Office of River Protection (ORP) contractor Bechtel National, Inc. (BNI) is hiring and training dozens of laboratory and radiological technicians to prepare for cold commissioning of Hanford ’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant, when operators will run a non-radioactive waste simulant through the plant to ensure systems are working properly.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced DONNA MONTICONE, 49, of Oxford, waived her right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall to one count of tampering with a consumer product.
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 DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell, III sentenced Cephus Albert Powell, age 54, of Baltimore, today to 188 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, after Powell pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and to possession with intent to distribute controlled substances.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today spoke on the House floor advocating for his amendment to H.R. 1, the “For the Politicians Act," which would add the ethics requirements Democrats wanted to impose on President Trump last Congress back in the bill to ensure Democrats’ ethics rules apply equally regardless of party.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Feb. 24, 2021, Miguel Dotel, age 43, of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 51 months’ imprisonment followed by a four-year term of supervised release by United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion for drug trafficking offenses.
By State Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
Release: Speakers: Ernest J. Moniz, President & Chief Executive Officer, Energy Futures Initiative; John Kerry, Special Presidential Envoy for Climate.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
Release: Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D-MN), Chair of the Defense Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on U.S. Military Service Academies Overview.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: Executive Approved Payments to Fake Web Security Company.
By State Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
Release: The following is the text of a joint statement by the Governments of the United States of America and Iceland following their strategic dialogue via secure video conference today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, DEA Acting Administrator D. Christopher Evans, and Special Agent in Charge of the DEA Washington Division, Jarod Forget, announce the release of the 2020 National Drug Threat Assessment - DEA’s annual publication outlining the threats posed to the U.S. by domestic and international drug trafficking and the abuse of illicit drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man has been charged in federal court with inciting rioting involving multiple incidents of property damage and looting in the city last summer.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: LONDON, KY. - A Manchester man, Richard Scott Smith, 45, was sentenced on Tuesday to 196 months in federal prison, by U.S. District Judge Claria Horn Boom, for one count of distribution and one count of possession of child pornography. Smith was further ordered to pay $31,000 in restitution to his victims.
By State Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
Release: Ansarallah, sometimes referred to as the Houthis, plays a significant role in the conflict in Yemen and exacerbates the dire humanitarian plight of the Yemeni people. The war has destabilized the country, displaced four million Yemenis since the beginning of the conflict, and unleashed one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: MIAMI - DEA Acting Administrator D. Christopher Evans today announced the release of the 2020 National Drug Threat Assessment, DEA’s annual publication outlining the threats posed to the United States by domestic and international drug trafficking and the abuse of illicit drugs.
