News from April 2021
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
Release: Congressman Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Chair of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's The U.S. Department of Agriculture - The Year Ahead Hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Yesterday, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) identified Audias Flores Silva (Flores Silva) as a significant foreign narcotics trafficker pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (Kingpin Act). Flores Silva (a.k.a. “Jardinero") ...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - Today, the Bureau of Reclamation released the Klamath Project 2021 Temporary Operations Plan, which was developed in response to consecutive years of drought conditions in the Klamath Basin, including the lowest historical inflows on record into Upper Klamath Lake this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: Concord, NH - The United States Marshals Service is pleased to announce the safe arrest of fugitive Matthew Gangi. Gangi, 66 years-of-age, was last known to reside in Pittsfield, NH. Mr. Gangi was just released from the U.S. Bureau of Prisons on March 23, 2021 after serving a 96-month prison sentence...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: Kula, Maui -Each year, National Park Week is a special time to celebrate national parks and programs across the country and to encourage everyone to discover the nation's diverse natural and cultural heritage. National Park Week will be celebrated Saturday, April 17 through Sunday, April 25.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, all Republican members of the House Committee on Natural Resources sent a letter to U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Debra Haaland, seeking critical informationregarding the Biden administration's proposed 30 by 30 initiative. In part, the members wrote.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to five years’ (60 months’) imprisonment and four years’ supervised release on his conviction for conspiracy to distribute heroin and fentanyl. Williams was charged in connection with a large-scale investigation conducted by the Greater Pittsburgh Safe Streets Task Force, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: Each U.S. Department of Energy Office of Legacy Management (LM) site has unique natural resource management needs. At many sites, LM manages a range of natural resources, including vegetation, wildlife and their habitat, special-status species, invasive species, pollinators, surface and groundwater...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has been selected as a recipient of the American Society for Public Administration’s 2021 Public Integrity Award. CISA is being recognized at ASPA’s annual conference today for its work to secure the 2020 election, combat disinformation, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Pamela S. Karlan issued the following statement and attached resource guide to assist Federal agencies, state and local governments, and recipients of Federal financial assistance in addressing ongoing civil rights challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that today, in federal court, Silvano Dominguez-Torres, age 32, a citizen of Mexico residing in Wake County, North Carolina, illegally present in the United States, was sentenced by United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle to 44 months imprisonment following a guilty plea to unlawful and illegal alien in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced today that Allan Browne, a citizen of Trinidad, was charged with entering the United States after having been previously deported and removed from the United States. Browne made his initial appearance before the United States Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller on Friday, April 9, 2021. His detention and preliminary examination hearings were held on Tuesday, April 13, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to five years’ (60 months’) imprisonment and four years’ supervised release on his conviction for conspiracy to distribute heroin and fentanyl. Williams was charged in connection with a large-scale investigation conducted by the Greater Pittsburgh Safe Streets Task Force, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - The former Chief Financial Officer of Alden Shoe Co. was charged today and has agreed to plead guilty in connection with embezzling approximately $30 million from the company as part of a long-running scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House Judiciary Committee passed H.R. 1333, the National Origin-Based Antidiscrimination for Nonimmigrants (NO BAN) Act and H.R. 1573, the Access to Counsel Act of 2021, sending the legislation to the House floor. The full House of Representatives is expected to vote on the bills next week.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: POCATELLO - Richard Neils Dutton, 52, of Idaho Falls, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 200 months in federal prison for sexual exploitation of children, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Robert Hammer and Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael M. Gonzalez, Jr. announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Thomas P. Barber has sentenced Robert Dayon Dumas (26, Wesley Chapel) to 25 years in federal prison for robbery and discharging a firearm in furtherance of a violent crime. The Court also ordered Dumas to forfeit the firearm and ammunition used in the robberies, and to make restitution to the victims.
By State Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
Release: MODERATOR: Good evening. Welcome to NATO Headquarters, to this press conference with the Secretary General, the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of Defense. They will make short introductory statements, and then we’ll be able to take a few questions. Secretary General.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Jace Wong was charged today in a federal complaint with possession of child pornography, announced Acting United States Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Craig D. Fair.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man today admitted conspiring to defraud two banks of more than $250,000 using stolen credit cards and blank checks, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
