News from April 2021
By DOL Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: NEW YORK ‒ Every 99 minutes, about one worker suffers fatal injuries and fails to return home safely at their work day’s end. That’s 15 workers a day, 100 a week, more than 5,200 a year - a frightening reality, but one that the nation’s employers can change by following workplace safety and health standards and regulations.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A federal grand jury today returned an indictment that charges a Covina man with kidnapping his wife in 2016 in an incident that resulted in her death.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: A citizen of the Democratic Republic of the Congo was sentenced today in federal court for conspiring to commit mail fraud, Acting U.S. Attorney Donald E. Clark announced.
By State Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
Release: The United States notes President Farmaajo’s April 28 commitment to return to the September 17 election agreement and resume talks immediately with Federal Member State leaders. We call on the President and Parliament to act swiftly to annul the April 12 mandate extension bill.
By State Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today gave the following opening remarks at a full committee nomination hearing for the Honorable Ambassador Bonnie D. Jenkins, to be under secretary of State for arms control and international security and the Honorable Jose W. Fernandez to be under secretary of State for economic growth, energy, and the environment.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JEFFREY L. BACON, 61, of Bristol, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 84 months of imprisonment, followed by a lifetime term of supervised release, for soliciting child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Faces At Least 14 Years in Prison.
By State Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: BARSTOW, Calif - The National Park Service (NPS) hosted multiple volunteer service projects at Mojave National Preserve on Saturday April 24 and Sunday April 25. In partnership with Overland Bound - an off-highway vehicle exploring and recreation community - 46 volunteers joined NPS staff to remove trash and install vehicle barriers in the preserve. Eighteen volunteers from the Alta Loma Cub Scout Troop #522 donated their time to clean up trash and remove invasive species.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced that Jamie Kidd-Dunbar, 40, of Grafton, Ohio, was sentenced today by U.S. Judge Donald C. Nugent to 61 months of imprisonment and ordered to pay $217,096.52 in restitution. Kidd-Dunbar pleaded guilty in October of 2020 to exploiting her position as a home health aide to steal more than $200,000 from a blind and physically disabled person in her care.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - The president and CEO of a commercial diving school today admitted fraudulently obtaining funding from the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for the school and its students, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Yorktown, Virginia - The National Park Service (NPS) at Colonial National Historical Park is seeking public comments regarding a proposal to implement recurring, temporary closures of a seven-mile portion of the Colonial Parkway to motor vehicles. The temporary closures would take place between Route...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Bitcoin Fog Service Allegedly Laundered $335 Million.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Norfolk, Virginia - FEMA hosted a Community Leadership Roundtable to support ongoing COVID-19 vaccination efforts at the Military Circle Mall on April 20. Together with the Virginia Department of Emergency Management, the Virginia Department of Health and a number of local organizations, the goal of the meeting was to ensure the communities’ needs were met.
By State Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Democrats’ top-down socialist agenda for families would lead to lower paychecks, fewer jobs, and greater hardships for Americans. Ways and Means Committee Republican leader Kevin Brady (R-TX) issued the following statement about President Biden’s “Crush American Families Plan"...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement applauding President Biden’s American Families Plan...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Newport News man was sentenced today to ten years in prison for being a previously convicted felon in possession of a firearm and felony possession of a controlled substance. Both charges stem from the defendant’s involvement in a January 2020 traffic stop that allegedly led to the death of Newport News Police Officer Katie Thyne.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - A Brainerd man was sentenced today to 48 months in prison for his role in the arsons at the Minneapolis Police Department’s Third Precinct building.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of Transportation of Child Pornography was sentenced on April 26, 2021, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
