News from May 2021
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Wednesday, May 19, 2021, Stephanie Hafley, also known as Stephanie A. Rooney, 53, from Wetumpka, Alabama, was sentenced to 22 months in prison for embezzling nearly $400,000.00 from her employer and failing to pay taxes, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Sandra J. Stewart. In addition...
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet Chairman Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. (D-GA), Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA), and Representative ...
By Interior Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: Middletown, N.J. - Gateway National Recreation Area announced today that full beach closures of designated nesting beach areas will begin to be implemented starting this Friday, May 21, for shorebird conservation.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on May 19, 2021, Edward McCreath, age 35, of New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury with possession with the intent to distribute crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, a New Jersey man was arrested for crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, which disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress in the process of ascertaining and counting the electoral votes related to the presidential election.
By State Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul, Chairman Gregory W. Meeks, and Reps. Mark Green and Albio Sires, Ranking Member and Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, issued the following statements after their bipartisan resolution urging the Government of El Salvador to respect the country’s democratic institutions. H.Res.408, passed the House Foreign Affairs Committee on a voice vote yesterday.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A New Bern man was sentenced yesterday to 114 months in prison for the distribution of cocaine, cocaine base (crack), heroin, and methamphetamine. On Dec. 28, 2020, Jajuan Rashad Harrell pled guilty to one charge of distribution of a controlled substance.
By Interior Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: FAIRBANKS, Alaska - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is accepting applications through June 4 for an Artist-in-Residence who will spend one week this summer on public lands along the Dalton Highway.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Pink Hill man was sentenced today to 78 months in prison for conspiring to commit money laundering and filing a false 2014 tax return, after he pled guilty to the charges on October 7, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - A Gulfport, Mississippi man was sentenced today to 33 months in prison for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, 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 in Mississippi.
By Homeland Newswire | May 20, 2021
Release: Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Chair of the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's Member Day hearing.
By Commerce Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Subcommittee on National Security Ranking Member Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) opened today’s hearing titled “Examining Next Steps for U.S. Engagement in Afghanistan" by emphasizing President Biden’s withdrawal efforts in the region would not be possible without President Trump’s leadership and unprecedented peace agreements.
By State Newswire | May 20, 2021
Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Well, thank you very much, and I recognize that we’re the only thing standing between us and the signing ceremony, so we’ll try to be brief.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on May 19, 2021, Jorge Roque, Jr., age 34, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury for drug trafficking and firearms offenses.
By Commerce Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Full Committee Ranking Member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Morgan Griffith (R-VA), Environment and Climate...
By Commerce Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican Leader Morgan Griffith (R-VA), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana...
By Homeland Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Minnesota Department of Public Safety Homeland Security and Emergency Management division (DPS-HSEM) announced today that $4,738,616 in federal funding has been made available to Minnesota Department of Health for costs related to the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic under the federal disaster declaration of April 7, 2020.
By EPA Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican Leader Morgan Griffith (R-VA), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana...
By EPA Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Full Committee Ranking Member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Morgan Griffith (R-VA), Environment and Climate...
By DOE Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Republicans unveiled the American Broadband Act to help close the digital divide by ensuring broadband infrastructure reaches all Americans and is not used to fund duplicative and wasteful overbuilding. Republicans on the Energy and Commerce Committee are leading the way...
