News from April 2021
By Interior Newswire | Apr 9, 2021
News Release: In honor of National Park Week, Moores Creek National Battlefield will be holding a Junior Ranger Day at the park from 10 am until 3 pm on Saturday April 24. The event will feature both in-person events and virtual events on the park’s website (www.nps.gov/mocr).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2021
News Release: Assault rifle and five handguns seized from defendant’s residence.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 9, 2021
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA-Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) encouraged the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to explore available regulatory levers to ensure the U.S. not only meets, but exceeds, targets in the Paris Agreement. In a letter to HHS Secretary Xavier...
By State Newswire | Apr 9, 2021
Release: The Department of State has issued new guidelines for U.S. government interaction with Taiwan counterparts to encourage U.S. government engagement with Taiwan that reflects our deepening unofficial relationship. The guidance underscores Taiwan is a vibrant democracy and an important security and economic...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Joshua Gutierrez, 22, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, was sentenced April 7 in federal court to 12 years in prison for voluntary manslaughter involving the use of a firearm in Indian Country.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 9, 2021
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA-Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement on President Biden’s discretionary funding request for Fiscal Year 2022...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared recently before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 9, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after reports that President Biden will nominate Doug Parker, current chief of workplace safety in California, to run the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2021
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - With the guilty plea of a 42-old Donna man, five individuals have now admitted to their roles in a conspiracy to harbor illegal aliens, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 9, 2021
News Release: YAKIMA, Wash. - The Bureau of Reclamation's April 2021 total water supply available forecast for the Yakima basin indicates the water supply will satisfy all senior and junior water rights this irrigation season.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 9, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Innovative technology development and acquisition have become increasingly competitive and fast moving. To keep pace with rapidly emerging technologies, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is partnering with DEFENSEWERX (DWX), a nonprofit organization...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2021
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Abdel Ndiaye, a/k/a “Pac," age 32, of Boyds, Maryland, pleaded guilty to the federal charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, in connection with a scheme in which Ndiaye and his co-conspirators opened credit card accounts at numerous retail and telecommunications stores in order to obtain money and property. The guilty plea was entered on April 7, 2021.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 9, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) joined Finance Committee member Tim Scott (R-South Carolina) in leading an amicus brief, filed by the American Center for Law and Justice, in support of Ohio’s lawsuit in Ohio v. Yellen, a lawsuit charging that the recently-passed American Jobs Act unlawfully restricts the states’ ability to reduce taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2021
News Release: ABINGDON, Va.- Jaap Willem Lijbers, a Dutch national and member of the Bugaloo Bois, pleaded guilty yesterday to illegally possessing a firearm while being unlawfully present in the United States. Acting United States Attorney Daniel P. Bubar and Stanley M. Meador, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Richmond Division announced the arrest today.
By State Newswire | Apr 9, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2021
News Release: GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA - Lascelles Ford, Jr., of Lake City, was sentenced on Tuesday to over 10 years in federal prison after pleading guilty on January 5, 2021, to possessing controlled substances with the intent to distribute, possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon. Jason R. Coody, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2021
News Release: Defendant failed to report $961,592 in income to IRS.
By State Newswire | Apr 9, 2021
Release: On behalf of the American people, I wish to offer my deepest condolences to the royal family and the people of the United Kingdom on the passing of His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2021
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Camden County, New Jersey, woman today admitted receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars of consumer electronics before reselling the stolen goods in connection with a delivery fraud scheme, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2021
News Release: SAN JOSE - A federal jury convicted a California man today for a federal hate crime for attacking a Black man with a knife on a street in Santa Cruz.
