News published on Federal Newswire in March 2021

News from March 2021


Marion Man Convicted of Making Phony Postage

News Release: Forged and Counterfeited Postage Meter Stamps for an eBay Business and Committed Export Violations.


Rodgers Remarks at Telehealth Hearing

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers delivered remarks at a subcommittee hearing on telehealth during COVID-19.


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), the Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, delivered opening remarks at the Committee hearing on the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) 2021 High-Risk Report, an inventory of government...


West Baltimore Career Criminal Distributing Heroin, Fentanyl, Cocaine, and Crack Cocaine, Sentenced

News Release: BALTIMORE, Md. - 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.


News Release: LOS ANGELES - 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.


Pallone Opening Remarks at Health Subcommittee Hearing on Telehealth

News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Health Subcommittee hearing on, “The Future of Telehealth: How COVID-19 is Changing the Delivery of Virtual Care:"


Grand Jury Indicts Depew Man For Selling Fentanyl That Led To The Deaths Of Two Individuals

News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Jonathan DiPirro, 30, of Depew, NY, with distribution of acetyl fentanyl, fentanyl, and cocaine causing death, distribution of acetyl fentanyl and fentanyl causing death...


Rodgers, Upton, McKinley Statement on the Democrats Down Payment for the Green New Deal

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Republican Leader of the House Energy and Commerce Committee Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Republican Subcommittee Leader on Energy Fred Upton (R-MI), and Republican Subcommittee Leader on the Environment and Climate Change David McKinley (R-WV) released this statement after the Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats introduced their plan to raise energy prices and shutter America’s all-the-above energy strategy.


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers delivered remarks at a subcommittee hearing on telehealth during COVID-19.


Mexican citizen sentenced to 14 years in prison for attempting to smuggle methamphetamine into South Texas

News Release: MCALLEN, Texas - A Mexican man was sentenced Tuesday to 168 months in federal prison for attempting to import approximately 23 kilograms of methamphetamines into South Texas.


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers delivered remarks at a subcommittee hearing on telehealth during COVID-19.


News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - An EM project at the Idaho National Laboratory Site is using robotic technology and taking cues from the smartphone and gaming industries to increase the dexterity of equipment operators.


Pallone Opening Remarks at Health Subcommittee Hearing on Telehealth

News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Health Subcommittee hearing on, “The Future of Telehealth: How COVID-19 is Changing the Delivery of Virtual Care:"


News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Omaha, Nebraska, man convicted of a violation of the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act and Migratory Bird Treaty Act was sentenced on Feb. 24, 2021, by Daneta L. Wollmann, U.S. Magistrate Judge.


News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Michael Mesko, 50, of Cheektowaga, NY, was charged by criminal complaint with enticement of a minor and production of child sexual abuse. The charges carry a minimum penalty of 15 years in prison and a maximum of life in prison.


Release: SECRETARY CLINTON: So, Secretary Blinken, welcome. I cannot express how pleased I am to have this chance to talk with you.


Eight defendants indicted for $4.1 million meth conspiracy

News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Eight defendants have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in a $4.1 million conspiracy to distribute more than 520 kilograms of methamphetamine.


News Release: Distant cousins of cultivated potato may hold the key to unlocking new sources of resistance to the tuber crop's most devastating disease, late blight.


News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS - Beginning March 24, 2021, visitors will be able to make advance reservations at three additional campgrounds in Yellowstone National Park. Campgrounds that will change from first-come, first-served to the advance reservation system are Mammoth, Slough Creek and a portion of Pebble Creek.


Drug User Who Illegally Possessed a Gun Sentenced to Probation

News Release: A man who illegally possessed a firearm as a drug user was sentenced March 1, 2021, to five years’ probation.