News from April 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Kyle, South Dakota, man convicted of two counts of Abusive Sexual Contact was sentenced by Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 12, 2021
News Release: Spokane, Wash. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Spokane District has will begin prescribed fire operations this weekend on the Rock Cut prescribed fire unit (located North of Orient, Wash.). The burn area is 75 acres. District Manager Kurt Pindel explains, “Prescribed burning allows firefighters...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Sexual Abuse of a Minor.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 12, 2021
Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service is accepting fiscal year 2021 applications for the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program, which helps support education, child development and food security in low-income, food-deficit countries around the globe.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Acting Under Authority Conferred by 28 U.S.C. § 515, announced that ARMANDO J. PEREZ, the former Chief of Police of the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut (the “City"), was sentenced today to 12 months and one day in prison for...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2021
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Richard G. Frohling of the Eastern District of Wisconsin joined Acting Assistant Attorney General Nicholas L. McQuaid of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and other federal officials in announcing that on April 12, 2021, a Wisconsin man pleaded guilty for his role in fraudulently...
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2021
Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Good morning. FOREIGN MINISTER DI MAIO: Good morning. SECRETARY BLINKEN: It is my pleasure to be able to welcome Foreign Minister Di Maio here to the State Department, to the United States. Luigi, you are the first foreign minister that I have the honor and pleasure of receiving ...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 12, 2021
News Release: KINGMAN, Ariz. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Kingman Field Office has completed a preliminary environmental assessment and is seeking public comment on a proposed exploration plan from Big Sandy Inc. that would allow for 145 drill sites and a bulk sample near the town of Wikieup in Mohave County. Public comments will be accepted for 30 days, from April 12 through May 11, 2021.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 12, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - On Feb. 3, the Biden-Harris Administration and California Governor Gavin Newsom announced an eight-week federal pilot project to establish Community Vaccination Centers (CVCs) in Oakland and Los Angeles -- the first state-run, federally supported centers in the nation focused on vaccinating underserved communities and those most affected by COVID-19.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 12, 2021
News Release: Engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built a low-cost computer system that connects older public safety radios with the latest wireless communications networks, showing how first responders might easily take advantage of broadband technology offering voice, text, instant messages, video and data capabilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2021
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - An indictment returned by a federal grand jury charges Jay Fisher, of Charleston, Ill., with 21 counts of tax fraud, for allegedly failing to report and pay federal employment taxes and personal income taxes. Fisher is scheduled to make his initial court appearance in federal court on April 19, 2021, at 10:30 a.m. The court hearing will take place in Urbana, via videoconference, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Eric I. Long.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man previously convicted of felony sex crimes, appeared in federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2021
News Release: HARRISBURG - With the deadline for filing federal individual income tax returns having been extended to May 17th, 2021, and taxpayers now preparing to file their tax returns, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, and the Philadelphia Field Office, IRS Criminal Investigation...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2021
News Release: A Tulsa couple who fraudulently applied for Paycheck Protection Program forgivable loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act pleaded guilty in federal court, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 12, 2021
News Release: BATON ROUGE, La. -A series of virtual information sessions on disaster recovery programs and services are planned for Apr. 14 through Apr. 24. The sessions will provide survivors with valuable resources needed to assist in their recovery efforts as they rebuild and repair their homes and lives after...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Acting U.S. Attorney John J. Farley announced today that the United States filed a lawsuit on Friday against John J. Flatley d/b/a John J. Flatley Company (Flatley), and a property manager employed by Flatley, for violating the Fair Housing Act. The United States alleges that Flatley discriminated against a tenant by refusing to allow a reasonable accommodation of the tenant’s disability when the tenant sought to have an emotional support dog.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 12, 2021
News Release: HARRISBURG, PA - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Barton Malow and Alexander Building Construction Co. have established a strategic partnership to promote workplace safety during construction of the Penn State Health Lancaster Medical Center in Lancaster.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 12, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raul M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Vice Chair Gregorio Sablan (D-CNMI) today praised President Biden’s hiring of Gretchen Sierra Zorita to the newly created position of White House Associate Director for Puerto Rico and Territories, which will coordinate with Congress to better address longstanding issues of importance to the millions of citizens and nationals living in U.S. territories.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that DOMINIC ROMANO, age 20, a resident of Luling, Louisiana, was charged on Friday, April 9, 2021, by a federal grand jury sitting in the Eastern District of Louisiana in a one-count Indictment with possession of images and videos depicting the sexual exploitation of children under the age of twelve years old, in violation of 18 U.S.C. ' 2252(a)(4)(B).
By DOE Newswire | Apr 12, 2021
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $5 million in new funding for the second round of the Solar Desalination Prize, a competition designed to accelerate the development of systems that use solar-thermal energy to purify water with very high salt content. DOE also announced that eight semifinalists will advance in the first round of prize.
