News from August 2021
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) released the following statement on today’s newly released Senate budget resolution. Grijalva noted that this morning’s report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change illustrates the stark need to fund conservation, habitat protection and impact mitigation programs at a level that meets the increasing climate-related destruction the country is already facing.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal firearms law, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: DETROIT - Two men have pleaded guilty to Attempted Murder of Federal Agents, announced Acting United States Attorney Saima Mohsin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: EL PASO - A former El Paso police officer pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to maintain a drug-involved premise.
By State Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
Release: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) newest report makes it clear - climate change is already a crisis.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: Defendants allegedly generated at least tens of millions in illicit proceeds.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS, Calif. August 9, 2021 - Beginning today, surplus wood in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks is available to the public by permit. Firewood permits are free, but you must obtain your permit before wood can be removed. Permit holders may take up to six cords per family per year. Firewood is available on a first-come first-served basis until the supply is gone.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: ANCHORAGE - A federal grand jury in Anchorage returned an indictment charging a Bonner County, Idaho man with sexually exploiting children and production of child pornography in Haines, Alaska.
By State Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
Release: The Department of State has concluded an administrative settlement with Keysight Technologies, Inc. (Keysight) of Santa Rosa, California, to resolve alleged violations of the Arms Export Control Act (AECA), 22 U.S.C. § 2751 et seq., and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), 22 C.F.R.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: Convicted felon allegedly fled car crash following shooting in Cambridge.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR), House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), Senate Special Committee on Aging Chairman Bob Casey (D-PA), and Co-Chair of the House Elder Justice Caucus Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) unveiled a bill to protect...
By State Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
Release: U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad departed for travel to Doha on August 8. Ambassador Khalilzad will be in Doha to help formulate a joint international response to the rapidly deteriorating situation in Afghanistan. In several planned rounds of meetings...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Douglas Tyrone Williams, Jr., aka “Chrome", currently age 41, formerly of Penn Hills, PA and East Pittsburgh, PA, was sentenced on August 5, 2021 by Chief United States District Judge Mark R. Hornak to 220 months of incarceration followed by five years of supervises release by United States Probation Officers, as a result of his conviction of federal drug and gun crimes.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) launched the fourth and final installment of the Virtual Whole-of-Government R&D Showcase today. This unique series was designed to demonstrate the collaborative research and development (R&D) efforts between S&T and its partners across government working to prepare the nation against its greatest challenges and future threats.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: Charges Involved Purchase of Fully Automatic Assault Rifle.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, NY - Dr. Larry Bruni has agreed to pay the United States $50,000 to resolve allegations that on numerous occasions from 2016 through 2020, he prescribed controlled substances without a legitimate medical purpose or outside the usual course of a professional medical practice, in violation of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - The owners of a now-closed compounding pharmacy have paid $1,082,991.94 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims for payment to the TRICARE program between September 2014 and May 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: Concord, NH - This past Friday, U.S. Marshals - New Hampshire Joint Fugitive Task Force “Fugitive of the Week", Anthony Govan, was arrested by members of the Boston Police Department’s Youth Violence Strike Force.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Jason John Clipper, aka “Smokey," a member of the East Side San Diego criminal street gang with ties to the Mexican Mafia prison gang, was sentenced today in federal court to 15 years in prison for unlawfully possessing a firearm, possessing methamphetamine and heroin with the intent to distribute, and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: CONCORD -Ryder Winegar, 34, of Amherst, pleaded guilty on Friday in federal court to six counts of threatening members of Congress and one count of transmitting interstate threatening communications, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced.
