News from May 2021
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Three people charged in a wide-ranging FBI drug and firearm trafficking investigation face between 5-40 years in federal prison after admitting to a judge today that they participated in a conspiracy that distributed significant quantities of crack cocaine and fentanyl in Woonsocket and elsewhere.
By Commerce 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 DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: DENVER - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announced that Rose Horne, age 66, formerly of Fort Collins, Colorado pleaded guilty today to mail fraud and money laundering. Horne was indicted on March 11, 2014, and was a fugitive until her arrest in California in June 2020. She is now scheduled to be sentenced in federal court in Denver before U.S. District Court Judge Robert E. Blackburn on Aug. 19, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Oscar Hernandez Maldonado, 48, a Honduran national residing in Charlotte, was sentenced today to 30 years in prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for producing child pornography, announced William T. Stetzer, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn Jr. also ordered Maldonado to register as a sex offender after his term of incarceration.
By Commerce Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: House Ways and Means Worker and Family Support Subcommittee Chairman Danny K. Davis announced today that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing, titled “Making a Difference for Families and Foster Youth," on Wednesday, May 12, at 10:00 AM EST.
By DOE Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks as prepared for delivery today at an Energy Subcommittee hearing titled, “The CLEAN Future Act: Driving Decarbonization of the Transportation Sector:"
By Homeland Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee, and U.S. Representative John Katko (R-NY), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, are raising concerns about the increasing number of assaults targeting federal law enforcement officers and government facilities in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: CINCINNATI - A federal grand jury has charged two Cincinnati men with using a firearm to commit a murder during the commission of a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Arizona man was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for conspiring to distribute fentanyl and for possessing with intent to distribute fentanyl, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael Honig announced.
By EPA Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks as prepared for delivery today at an Energy Subcommittee hearing titled, “The CLEAN Future Act: Driving Decarbonization of the Transportation Sector:"
By US DOT Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, wrote an op-ed for The Parkersburg News and Sentinel detailing how the Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act of 2021 will benefit the economic growth and public health of West Virginia communities.
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Today, the Bureau of Reclamation announced an update to the initial Central Valley Project 2021 water supply allocation for agricultural water service contractors north-of-Delta. Allocation amounts are based on an estimate of water available for delivery to CVP water users and reflects current reservoir storages, precipitation, and snowpack in the Central Valley and Sierra Nevada.
By Commerce 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 DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for possessing a handgun in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | May 4, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee of Oversight and Reform, led a group of bipartisan Members in reintroducing The Whistleblower Protection Improvement Act of 2021 to strengthen protections for federal employees who expose wrongdoing. Chairwoman Maloney announced the reintroduction at the start of yesterday’s Committee hearing examining the bill and other legislative reforms to improve government transparency and accountability.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted Renul Barnet Forbes, a/k/a “Michael Renul," “Breion Jones," and “Bree Jones," age 32, of Glen Burnie, Maryland, on the federal charges of false personation of a federal officer and possession of a fraudulently made government seal. The indictment was returned on March 25, 2021 and was unsealed at his initial appearance on May 3, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2021
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A Beaumont man has been sentenced to federal prison for firearms violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2021
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Eight members of a drug trafficking ring operating in and around Union County were handed down sentences ranging from 30 to 300 months in prison today, announced William T. Stetzer, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By Homeland Newswire | May 4, 2021
News Release: Today is International Firefighters Day, an occasion to recognize and honor the sacrifices that brave men and women around the world make to safeguard our communities. The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) wholeheartedly supports firefighters year-round with research...
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2021
News Release: A Massachusetts woman pleaded guilty today to tax evasion, conspiracy to distribute marijuana, possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, and money laundering.
