News from August 2021
By Interior Newswire | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: Fort Benton, Mont. -- This year marks the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument (UMRBNM).
By State Newswire | Aug 10, 2021
Release: On behalf of the Government of the United States and the American people, I send warm greetings to the Ecuadorian people as you celebrate the 212th anniversary of your declaration of independence.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - Two residents of Pennsylvania have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud and money laundering, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane Evans announced today that THERESA WOOD (“WOOD") pled guilty as charged on August 5, 2021 to count one of an indictment for false statements in a passport application in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1542 before U.S. District Judge Eldon E. Fallon.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA- A resident of Blairsville, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of Mail Fraud and Filing False Income Tax Returns, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: Greenbelt, Md., - Ludin Alfredo Ipina-Ipina, age 33, of Chillum, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to possession with intent to distribute over 2,000 grams of cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service today announced the selection of 19 project proposals to develop brand new or improve 15 parks and 4 trails in economically disadvantaged urban areas in 13 states. These projects, as part of the Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership (ORLP) program, would result...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bergen County man today admitted his role in a scheme to steal prescription HIV medication from the Department of Veterans Affairs, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Senate Aging Committee Chairman Bob Casey, D-Pa., along with Senators Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Michael Bennet, D-Colo., Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., and Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, today introduced legislation to update federal nursing home policy to improve quality of care and oversight, after the COVID-19 pandemic took the lives of hundreds of thousands of residents and workers in nursing homes.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), Angus King (I-ME), Co-Chair of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, Maggie Hassan (D-NH), and Mitt Romney (R-UT) applauded the Senate passage...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man with previous felony convictions today admitted illegally possessing firearms and ammunition as part of a planned revenge shooting, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: OMAHA, Neb. - National Park Service (NPS) Regional Director Bert Frost announced the selection of Matthew Tucker Blythe as superintendent of Mississippi National River and Recreation Area in Minnesota. Blythe is currently the Superintendent of Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site in Missouri. He assumes his new role September 12.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that PAMELA SMITH, 72, of Kirkland, Washington, formerly of Guilford, Connecticut, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden to two years of probation for aiding in the preparation of a false tax return. Judge Bolden also ordered Smith to perform 100 hours of community service.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced SHANNEL SMITH, age 41, of Orleans Parish, Louisiana, was charged on Aug. 10, 2021 in a one-count bill of information for misappropriating postal funds in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1711.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri, man has pleaded guilty in federal court to illegally possessing the firearm he accidentally fired in a fatal shooting at the Kansas City Zoo.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Bob Murray announced today that VICTOR YNOSTROSA, age 21, of Fort Washakie, Wyoming was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl for assaulting an individual with a firearm, resulting in serious bodily injury. Ynostrosa received a sentence of 30...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. House Ways and Means top Republican Leader Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) and U.S. Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Sen. Mike Crapo (R-ID) released an analysis showing that proposed corporate tax hikes would fall directly on middle-class Americans. The analysis, performed...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Destiny Lee Dabbs, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, has admitted to drug charges, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal judge yesterday sentenced a previously convicted sex offender for possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Prim F. Escalona and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A New York man today admitted to his role in a wire fraud conspiracy which defrauded the State of New Jersey of over $19 million in motor fuel tax, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
