News from March 2021
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Finance Committee Ranking Member Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, Senate Aging Committee Chair Bob Casey, Jr., D-Pa., and Aging Committee Ranking Member Tim Scott, R-S.C., today asked the Biden administration to collect and make public data on COVID-19 vaccination rates in the nation’s nursing homes at the facility level.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing, Ranking Member Rob Portman (R-OH), pressed Deanne Criswell, the nominee to be Administrator for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), on the request for FEMA to provide disaster assistance...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: Defendant Engaged in Identity Theft, Cyber Fraud, and Elder Fraud, Laundering Money for Overseas Co-Conspirators - Ordered to Serve 34 Years in Prison and Repay Close to $2 Million.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: A Tulsa man has been charged in federal court for a murder that occurred in Craig County on March 21, 2021, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: A Mansfield man will be spending time behind bars for criminal contempt, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: HONOLULU - VICTOR AGUILAR, a 65-year-old resident of Kauai, was arrested on two counts of sexual exploitation of a child under the age of 18 for the purpose of producing child pornography. Judith A. Philips, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Hawaii, John F. Tobon, Special Agent in Charge...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: First State National Historical Park (NHP) Superintendent Cinda Waldbuesser has named Martina Meyers as the park’s first Chief Ranger.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, held a hearing focused on health inequity in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. In her opening remarks, Senator Murray spoke about the harm longstanding health inequities...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today released a new brief, Childhood Disability in the United States: 2019, describing rates and patterns of childhood disability in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal drug laws, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is authorizing importation of five commodities of fresh pepper fruit from Colombia into the continental United States. The commodities are Capsicum annuum (Pepper, Bell); C. baccatum (Pepper, Locoto); C. chinense ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: A federal grand jury indicted a construction contractor for stealing over $1.2 million from the United States Postal Service through a more than three-year scheme to defraud through false invoices, Acting United States Attorney Saima S. Mohsin announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Virginia man was arrested and charged with gun trafficking and possession of firearms by a felon, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: Forty-six defendants, including two doctors, a nurse practitioner, and five pharmacists, have been convicted of operating an $18 million pill mill scheme, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: Today, Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee Republican Leader Burgess Owens (R-UT) delivered the following opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at a subcommittee hearing to discuss educational equity post COVID-19...
By State Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
Release: QUESTION: Well, Secretary Blinken, thank you so much for being our guest today on Global Conversation. Welcome to Brussels.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A Tyler, Texas man has pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a three-count superseding indictment today against Steven Eric Cabrera, 25, of Fresno, adding one count of illegally possessing a machine gun and one count of being a felon in possession of ammunition to the original Feb. 11 indictment that charged him with one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Joshua Jerome Moak, 36, of Moss Point, Mississippi, who operated a business known as “Moak’s Minnows" in Jackson County, pled guilty today to violating the federal Lacey Act, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Darren LaMarca; Manny Antonaras, Assistant Director of the National Oceanic and...
By State Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
Release: On behalf of the Government of the United States of America, I warmly congratulate the Greek people on the historic bicentennial of their independence. This special year is an occasion to honor our shared commitment to democracy and to celebrate 200 years of friendship between the peoples of the United ...
