News from May 2021
By State Newswire | May 4, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has been sentenced in federal court to 37 months’ imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release on his conviction for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Point Pleasant man pleaded guilty today to a federal child sex trafficking offense.
By Homeland Newswire | May 4, 2021
Release: BRIDGETON, Mo. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is holding a two-day recruiting event Friday, May 7 and Saturday, May 8 to assist individuals interested in applying for a job as a Transportation Security Officer (TSO) at St. Louis Lambert International Airport (STL).
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Pittsburgh, PA pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of distribution of material depicting the sexual exploitation of children, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By State Newswire | May 4, 2021
Release: MODERATOR: So we’ll go ahead and get started. We’ll do this on background, two U.S. officials, if everyone is comfortable with that. As I think you all know, [Senior State Department Official One] was deeply engaged in the preparations for this and the G7. [Senior State Department Official Two] has been engaged on the bilateral aspect and in different areas as well.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2021
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Michael Wienandt, 26, Wausau, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 6 years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Wienandt pleaded guilty to this charge on Feb. 12, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2021
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Last week, a federal jury convicted JIMMY LEE BROOKS, 35, of Oklahoma City, of possessing ammunition after a former conviction of a felony and a separate charge of witness tampering, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester.
By DOL Newswire | May 4, 2021
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Republican Leader Burgess Owens (R-UT) sent a letter to Comptroller General Gene Dodaro requesting the Government Accountability Office (GAO) examine the federal government’s efforts to combat child trafficking.
By Commerce Newswire | May 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statements congratulating Ms. Angela Ellard, Chief Trade Counsel for Ways and Means Republicans, for being selected as one of the new World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Deputy Directors-General...
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2021
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Woonsocket man arrested by members of the FBI’s Safe Streets Violent Gang Task Force in July 2019 and by Woonsocket Police in June 2020 for trafficking crack cocaine was sentenced today to 41 months in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | May 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Economic and Consumer Policy Subcommittee Ranking Member Michael Cloud (R-Texas) opened today’s bipartisan hearing on needed reforms in the organ transplant industry by commending patients waiting for a transplant and donors for sharing their stories with the subcommittee and called for more to be done to save thousands of more lives.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2021
News Release: The Defendant Secretly Recorded Three Minors Undressing and Showering.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana announced today that defendant LARRY GREEN (“GREEN"), age 38, of Hammond, LA, was sentenced to 160 months imprisonment by United States District Court Judge Wendy B. Vitter for possession of a firearm in furtherance ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was charged on April 29, 2021 in federal court in Boston for illegally reentering the United States.
By State Newswire | May 4, 2021
Release: PRIME MINISTER JOHNSON: Good afternoon. Always a great pleasure to welcome the U.S. Secretary of State.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - A financial advisor who told clients they were guaranteed to make money by investing with him has been sentenced to more than 13 years in federal prison for defrauding those clients out of $5.1 million.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2021
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Pawtucket man who sold a kilogram of cocaine while under law enforcement surveillance faces between 5 and 40 years in federal prison, having pleaded guilty today to conspiracy and distributing 500 grams or more of cocaine.
By Homeland Newswire | May 4, 2021
Release: Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D-MN), Chair of the Defense Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on the Fiscal Year 2022 National Guard and Reserves.
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.
