News from April 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the District of Columbia unsealed an indictment against three men for assaulting law enforcement officers, among other charges, during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 that disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress in the process of affirming the presidential election.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 16, 2021
News Release: Padre Island National Seashore’s Eleven Orphan Wells Plugged by Railroad Commission of Texas with Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Funding Awarded by the RESTORE Council.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2021
News Release: Defendant Allegedly Stole Thousands of Dollars from the Victim and Used the Funds for His Personal Benefit; As a Result of the Fraud, Victim’s House Went Into Foreclosure and He Owed the IRS $63,000.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 16, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Just in time for National Park Week, the new National Park Service (NPS) mobile app (go.nps.gov/app ) is now available for visitors to national parks across the country. Created by park rangers with visitors in mind, the NPS App gives the public up-to-date information about all 423 national parks in one easy-to-use app.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 16, 2021
News Release: DETROIT - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers removed a Salvadoran national wanted in his home country for aggravated homicide April 16.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2021
News Release: DALLAS - A Dallas lawyer has been charged with laundering what he believed to be proceeds of narcotics trafficking, announced Eduardo A. Chavez, Special Agent in Charge of the DEA in Dallas.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 16, 2021
News Release: Today, National Park Service (NPS) South Atlantic-Gulf Regional Director Stan Austin announced the selection of Tracy Swartout as the new superintendent of Blue Ridge Parkway, effective May 23.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 16, 2021
News Release: DENVER, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management has released a preliminary environmental assessment that analyzes if there are any significant environmental impacts of a proposed action to transfer approximately 17,200 acres of federal surface and minerals and an additional 6,000 acres of federal mineral estate to the state of Colorado.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 16, 2021
News Release: DENVER - The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has provided more than $1.6 million in additional Public Assistance funding for the COVID-19 response in Colorado. The assistance was made available under a major disaster declaration issued March 28, 2020. FEMA has provided a total of $520.6 million for the Colorado COVID-19 response to date.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 16, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, spoke on the House Floor in support of the Stop Shielding Assets from Corporate Known Liability by Eliminating Non-Debtor Releases (SACKLER) Act, to ensure that individuals accused of wrongdoing by government actors are held accountable and can’t evade responsibility through bankruptcy proceedings.
By State Newswire | Apr 16, 2021
Release: The text of the following statement was released by the governments of France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States of America following the April 14 attack in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 16, 2021
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) spoke in opposition to H.R. 1195, the Democrat-proposed Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act. H.R. 1195 is the wrong solution to a serious problem. It will result in an overly prescriptive, catch-all rule that will hurt workers and employers in the already overwhelmed health care and social service industries.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 16, 2021
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management will hold a wild horse and burro adoption event in Sulfur Springs, Texas, May 7-8, at the Hopkins County Regional Civic Center. The two-day event, featuring 110 wild horses and burros, will begin at 10 a.m. on Friday, May 7. Adoptions will be held from noon-6 p.m. on Friday, May 7, and from 8 a.m.-noon on Saturday, May 8. Animals are eligible for adoption. Inquire with BLM staff onsite for more information.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 16, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) released the following statement on the two new orders signed by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland today to prioritize action on climate change and make policy decisions more transparent.
By State Newswire | Apr 16, 2021
Release: QUESTION: Let’s take all of this to Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Thanks for being with us. Mr. Secretary, you’ve heard the reaction from the generals who’ve commanded troops in Afghanistan, including the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs and David Petraeus, who went on to become CIA director, who say this will leave America more vulnerable to terrorist threats, with Joe Dunford saying it would also have a catastrophic effect in Afghanistan itself. Your reaction?
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and William S. Walker, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Boston, today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned an indictment charging RICHARD E. SMITH, 65, of Southington, with receipt and possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2021
News Release: Mason, OH - United States Marshal Peter Tobin is pleased to announce Kenneth Dawson was arrested on April 15, 2021 in Mason, Ohio. The Fairfield Common Pleas Court charged Dawson for Arson, Retaliation, Possessing Criminal Tools, and Unlawful Possession of Dangerous Ordnance. These charges stem from...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2021
News Release: ABINGDON, Va. - Brittany McReynolds, a Saint Paul, Virginia woman who conspired with others to file for fraudulent pandemic unemployment benefits, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Abingdon to charges she conspired with others to commit mail fraud and defraud the government of more than...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Jon Schaffer, 53, of Columbus, Indiana, today admitted that he breached the Capitol on January 6, 2021, wearing a tactical vest and armed with bear repellent, and pleaded guilty to unlawfully entering the U.S. Capitol to obstruct Congress’ certification of the U.S. presidential election results.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 16, 2021
News Release: Martinez, CA - Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, John Muir National Historic Site (NHS) is increasing access. The National Park Service (NPS) is working servicewide with federal, state, and local public health authorities to closely monitor the COVID-19 pandemic and using a phased approach to increase access on a park-by-park basis.
