News from April 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national pleaded guilty on Friday, April 16 in federal court in Boston to illegally reentering the United States after being deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: FARGO - Acting United States Attorney Nick Chase announced Thomas Alexander Starks, age 30 of Lisbon, ND, pleaded guilty before Chief Judge Peter D. Welte, U.S. District Court, Fargo, ND, for the charge of Destruction of Government Property, 18 USC 1361.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- FEMA continues efforts to help stop the spread of COVID-19, while also offering services to help those most affected by the pandemic.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: Washington D.C. - Today House Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) cheered the announcement that the Department of Housing and Urban Development would obligate $8.2 billion in Community Development Block Grant Mitigation funds that were allocated for Puerto Rico following Hurricane...
By State Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul and Chairman Gregory W. Meeks released the following statement after reports of Alexey Navalny’s deteriorating health while he remains wrongfully imprisoned in Russia.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A federal indictment returned by a grand jury on April 2, 2021, and unsealed on April 16, 2021, charges three individuals with having been in possession of dozens of fraudulent drivers’ licenses, fraudulent credit cards, equipment to produce credit cards, and lists of individuals stolen personal identifying information.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA - Two former employees of a nursing and personal care facility have been sentenced after admitting to a scheme in which they stole and resold prescription drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Canton woman was sentenced on Friday, April 16, 2021 in federal court in Boston in connection with a business email compromise (BEC) scheme.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have installed a Doppler lidar instrument to an existing weather station on top of the Department of Commerce’s Herbert Clark Hoover Building in Washington, D.C., to measure wind flow and turbulence in the lowest part of the atmosphere for a research project studying greenhouse gas emissions in the capital area.
By State Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
Release: The U.S. Department of State fully supports the Department of the Treasury’s announcement today on the revocation of the Belarus-related General License (GL) and implementation of a 45-day wind down of transactions. This action is a further consequence of the Belarusian authorities’ flagrant disregard for human rights and Belarus’ failure to comply with its obligations under international human rights law.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), in collaboration with Discovery Education and the National Indian Education Association (NIEA), announces the launch of “Good Medicine Bundles," a set of hands-on, science-based, standards-aligned resources for elementary and middle school students to address the nation’s opioid crisis and encourage resiliency through a Native approach to balance and wellness.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Turners Falls man was indicted last week by a federal grand jury in Springfield on child pornography charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - On Thursday, April 15, 2021, United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey sentenced Geneva Kristine Hudson, age 28, of Iowa City, to 270 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and heroin, distribution of five grams and more of methamphetamine, and distribution...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: SAUGUS, MA - Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site partnered with students from Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt) and Visiting Lecturer in Sculpture Marjee-Anne Levine to create a new virtual gallery, I Cast Iron Because… This multimedia presentation features unique metal sculptures, artist statements, and self-made video profiles of each artist.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: Updated information from the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC) about traveling by air after receiving COVID-19 vaccines is now on FlyHealthy.gov - the one-stop portal for the latest pandemic-related air-travel information from multiple federal agencies.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced today that JAMES MOHAMAD, 52, of Kenner, and BRIAN MEDUS, 44, of Covington, were charged in a 1-count indictment by a federal Grand Jury with violating Title 18, United States Code, Sections 371 and 1952(a)(3), conspiracy to use an interstate facility with intent to carry on unlawful activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A Baytown, Texas man has pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - A suburban Chicago woman who trafficked numerous undocumented immigrants from Guatemala was sentenced today to six and a half years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced the guilty pleas of two middlemen in a test score-fixing scheme at a United States Coast Guard exam center, bringing the total number of defendants convicted in this case to 21.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: Conspired to Distribute Meth Within a School Zone.
