News from April 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior United States District Judge John Antoon II has sentenced Terry George Zimmerman (73, Lady Lake) to 19 years and 7 months in federal prison for possessing materials depicting the sexual exploitation of children. Zimmerman was also sentenced to a life term of supervision, ordered to register as a sex offender, and must pay $21,000 in restitution to identified child victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Austin Pratt, 32, of Conesus, NY, who was convicted of enticement of a minor, was sentenced to serve 180 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
News Release: Tumacácori is one of 32 parks and park partners to receive an Open OutDoors for Kids Hybrid Learning grant from the National Park Foundation (NPF), which works in partnership with the National Park Service and the park partner community to ensure that national parks reach their fullest potential and...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BRANDEN HUERTAS, 39, last residing in Bridgeport, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to narcotics distribution and firearm possession offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
News Release: Memphis, TN - Albert “GEE GEE" Green, 25, has been sentenced to 97 months in federal prison as a convicted felon in possession of a firearm and possession of a firearm in the furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Acting U.S. Attorney, Joseph C. Murphy, Jr., announced the verdict today.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
News Release: News Conference to Be Held to Announce Results.
By State Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
Release: On behalf of the Government of the United States of America, I congratulate the people of Sierra Leone as you commemorate the 60th anniversary of your independence.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
News Release: EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service and University of California Cooperative Extension have released yellow starthistle rosette weevils to combat the invasive weed, yellow starthistle, at the Magnolia Ranch day-use recreation...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
News Release: Los Angeles Man Charged with his Nigeria-based Brother for Conspiring to Move Romance Scam Proceeds Through U.S. Bank Accounts to Nigerian Accounts.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.--Today, U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, and U.S. Senate Finance Committee member Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island) released a discussion draft of the Energy Sector Innovation Credit (ESIC) Act, a bipartisan energy tax proposal to encourage innovation in the clean energy sector.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Keefer Goodman, 29, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced on Friday, April 23, by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 72 months in federal prison for possessing with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine. This prison term will be followed by 4 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - A man has been sentenced to more than 18 years in federal prison for participating in a violent robbery crew that targeted cell phone stores in the Chicago area and downstate.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
Release: Looking for information about P-EBT or school meals?Please check with your state; for a list of contacts, visit here. For other questions about nutrition assistance, call the Hunger Hotline at: 1-866-3-HUNGRY (in English) or 1-877-8-HAMBRE (en español).
By State Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
Release: Today, the United States is imposing sanctions on one current and one former Guatemalan government official-Gustavo Adolfo Alejos Cambara and Felipe Alejos Lorenzana, respectively-for their role in corruption in Guatemala.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
News Release: WHITE PLAINS, NY - Several million dollars’ worth of opiates and other narcotics, including what is alleged to be fentanyl, was seized last week in Mount Vernon following a joint investigation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Drug Enforcement Task Force, New Jersey State Police and the Westchester District Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Sean P. Costello of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Zachary Wood, 22, of Gulf Shores, Alabama, was sentenced today in federal court on a charge of receipt of child pornography. Wood pled guilty to the charge in January of 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
News Release: ANCHORAGE - Stuart Ravn, 33, of Anchorage was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to possession of more than 5,744 unique images and videos of child pornography on his computer.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 120,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2021/2022 marketing year.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) wrote Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) calling for an emergency hearing on the inhumane treatment of D.C. inmates over the course of the pandemic. Last week, the Washington Post reported incarcerated residents...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 26, 2021
Release: Washington - Earlier today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced a new effort funded by the American Rescue Plan to provide adequate nutrition to more than 30 million children over the summer by expanding Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT) benefits. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack called this expansion of P-EBT benefits over the summer “a first-of-its-kind, game-changing intervention to reduce child hunger in the United States.".
