News from May 2021
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Susan A. Gibson and Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Rachael A. Honig announced an Arizona man was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for conspiring to distribute fentanyl and for possessing with intent to distribute fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A California man was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for his role in a drug distribution conspiracy connected to the seizure of fentanyl and heroin at a New Jersey rest stop last year, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Carlos Manuel Marquez-Pierce, 23, of Plummer, Idaho, and an enrolled member of the Coeur d’Alene Indian Tribe, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 23 years in federal prison for production of child pornography and sexual abuse of a minor, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael M. Gonzalez, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: Defendants Allegedly "Sold" 153 Nonexistent Dogs.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh resident pleaded guilty in federal court to violating federal narcotics laws, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | May 5, 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 hearing on the FY 2022 Budget Request for the Department of Education.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-On May 4, 2021, President Joseph R. Biden Jr. proclaimed today, May 5, 2021, as Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A Plano man has been sentenced for crimes involving firearms and sex offenses in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei today.
By Homeland Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- FEMA is working toward the goal President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. set yesterday of wanting 70% of American adults to have at least one shot by July 4 and administering an additional 100 million vaccines in the next 60 days.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A Nederland woman has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking crimes in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: Gulfport, Mississippi - A Harrison County man was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for being an unlawful user of a controlled substance in possession of a firearm and ammunition, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca of the Southern District of Mississippi and Michelle Sutphin, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI") in Mississippi.
By EPA Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Rodgers issued the following statement in response to Facebook’s Oversight Board’s decision to uphold the ban on President Trump’s account...
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Glen Thomas West, age 35, of Okmulgee County, Oklahoma entered a guilty plea to Murder in Indian Country- Second Degree, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1111(a) 1151, and 1153, punishable by death or imprisonment for life, a fine up to $250,000.00, or both.
By DOE Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Upton delivered opening remarks at Wednesday’s Energy Subcommittee hearing on electric vehicles mandates in the Democrats’ CLEAN Future Act.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: June 15th Is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day.
By Commerce Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Republican Leader Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) reintroduced the Securing a Strong Retirement Act of 2021, bipartisan legislation to help more Americans successfully save for a secure retirement. This legislation was first introduced in October 2020, and builds on the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act of 2019 to further improve workers’ long-term financial wellbeing.
By DOE Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Republican Leader for the House Energy and Commerce Committee Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered the following remarks today during an Energy Subcommittee hearing on Democrats’ radical electric vehicle mandates.
By EPA Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader Morgan Griffith (R-VA) sent a letter Wednesday to Centers for Disease Control...
By DOE Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Rodgers issued the following statement in response to Facebook’s Oversight Board’s decision to uphold the ban on President Trump’s account...
By Commerce Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: Washington D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today led 17 members of Congress in introducing a bipartisan resolution designating May 5 as a National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. The resolution and related efforts to combat the silent crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIW) were designed in collaboration with seven national tribal organizations, each of which endorse Grijalva’s resolution.
