News from April 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former Orange County resident pleaded guilty Tuesday for his role in a scheme to defraud the government of Afghanistan out of more than $100 million. The funds were provided to Afghanistan by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for the purpose of constructing an electric grid in Afghanistan, in connection with the long-standing U.S. effort to strengthen that country’s basic infrastructure.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FL ‒ 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: California Man Pleads Guilty to Scheme to Defraud Afghan Government on U.S. Funded Contract.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children and was sentenced to 36 months in prison, 10 years supervised release and ordered to make restitution in the amount of $18,000 to the victims, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Dear Attorney General Garland and Commissioner Rettig...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) released the following statement after President Joe Biden’s address to a joint session of Congress, during which the president urged Congress to act boldly on infrastructure...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on April 27, 2021, Terrance Tyson, age 44, of East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury for bank robbery.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: PEWAUKEE, WI - A worker for Xylem Inc., a water technology company in Pewaukee, suffered an injury when a guardrail loosened and he fell and struck his head on a support beam as he lowered himself into a nearly 30-foot deep water test pit.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) slammed President Biden for his American Families Plan, which allocates trillions of taxpayer dollars to support radical, far left policies that will exacerbate the federal debt and hurt the very people he intends on helping - families and job creators...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Salem County man made his initial appearance today on charges of illegally possessing ammunition, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
Release: House Appropriations Committee Chair and Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee Chair Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) delivered the following remarks at the subcommittee's hearing on the FY 2022 Budget Request for the Department of Labor.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- FEMA announced that federal disaster assistance has been made available to the state of New Jersey to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by severe winter storm and snowstorm from Jan. 31 to Feb. 2, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Luis Antonio Visalden Arriaga with unlicensed firearms trafficking, announced W. Stephen Muldrow, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is in charge of the investigation.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The following are opening remarks, as prepared for delivery, from Chair of the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Dina Titus (D-NV) during today’s hearing titled, “Investing in America: Reauthorization of the Economic Development Administration." Video of the opening statement from Chair Titus is here. More information on the hearing can be found here.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Spring is in the air and birds are beginning to sing all around us. We are captivated by these songs and humans have marveled at bird songs since the beginning of time, but how can we begin to understand the many complex vocalizations that birds make? In this presentation, David Lukas will discuss how...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. — Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm issued the following statement today on President Biden’s intent to nominate Dr. Geraldine Richmond for Under Secretary for Science, Andrew Light for Assistant Secretary for International Affairs, and Sam Walsh for General Counsel.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: BOTHELL, Wash. -The Federal Emergency Management Agency awarded three Public Assistance grants totaling $7,903,431 to Alaska’s Anchorage School District. These funds cover restoration of Dimond High School and Gruening Middle School following damages due to the 2018 Alaska Earthquake as well as reimbursements for emergency protective measures taken across the Anchorage School District.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the Senate voted to use the Congressional Review Act to restore the popular, common sense methane emissions standards established under the Obama Administration...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Previously sentenced to state prison for participating in two gang rapes.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: A Woman Who Concealed Identifying Information about an Armed Robbery gets a Felony Conviction.
