News from August 2021
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: Los Alamos, NM - Do you wake up in the summer to an American Robin singing it’s beautiful, but sometimes annoying song, outside of your bedroom window? Do you hang a hummingbird feeder in your yard to attract those colorful hovering artists? If you interact with birds in anyway any day, you may want...
By State Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Representatives Gregory W. Meeks and Michael McCaul, Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, along with Representatives Bill Keating and Brian Fitzpatrick, Chairman and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Europe, Energy, the Environment, and Cyber...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - A Blaine man pleaded guilty yesterday to possession of eight firearms as an unlawful user of a controlled substance, announced Acting U.S. Attorney W. Anders Folk.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Kenneth J. Lawson, 32, La Crosse, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 9 years in federal prison for armed robbery and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. This prison term will be followed by 3 years of supervised release. Lawson pled guilty to these charges on May 17, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A former commercial loan officer at a Chatham County bank is facing significant penalties after admitting to obtaining hundreds of thousands of dollars in fraudulent loans.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: FEMA is proposing updates to the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) for Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Beginning on August 5, 2021, community partners from the following municipalities are invited to participate in a 90-day appeal and comment period (a separate appeal period for the remaining municipalities began on July 8, 2021):
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: A Tulsa man who fraudulently applied for Paycheck Protection Program forgivable loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act was sentenced today in federal court, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By State Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
Release: I am announcing the designation of five terrorist leaders in Africa. Bonomade Machude Omar, Sidan ag Hitta, Salem ould Breihmatt, Ali Mohamed Rage, and Abdikadir Mohamed Abdikadir are designated as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) under Executive Order 13224, as amended.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jacqueline Maguire, the Acting Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Thomas Fattorusso, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that SHIVA AKULA (“AKULA"), age 65, of New Orleans, Louisiana was charged by a grand jury on August 5, 2021, in a 23-count Indictment for Health Care Fraud.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - This week, House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) embarked on a tour of western states that included stops in California,Oregon, and Alaska. He was joined by Reps. David Valadao (R-Calif.), Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), Cliff Bentz (R-Ore.),and Don Young (R-Alaska) on the tour.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: GREENSBORO - A North Carolina man was sentenced today to 327 months in prison for receipt of child pornography.
By State Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: DENVER - Extraction Oil and Gas, Inc., an oil and gas company headquartered in Denver, has agreed to pay over $462,000 to resolve allegations that it drilled and operated three oil and gas wells where it removed minerals from federal public lands without permission. Extraction agreed to make this payment in addition to a $884,407 settlement it paid in February 2020 for another set of wells where it had similarly removed minerals from federal public lands without permission.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - On August 4, 2021, Benjamin Reichel, 55, was sentenced to serve 54 months in prison, followed by three years’ supervised release, by the Honorable Curtis L. Collier, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Norwood woman was arrested today in connection with fraudulently receiving federal workers’ compensation benefits and disability benefits from the Social Security Administration (SSA).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: Defendant on pre-trial release for state murder charges.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: SPRINGDALE, UT - Due to recent rainfall, improved vegetative fuel conditions and reduced fire danger, beginning July 30, 2021 fire restrictions were eased at Zion National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: Two Bryan County men face up to life in prison after another man’s fatal fentanyl overdose.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Two individuals have pleaded guilty for their roles in the cybercriminal money laundering organization QQAAZZ. On August 6 and July 13, two of the charged defendants, Arturs Zaharevics and Aleksejs Trofimovics, respectively, pleaded guilty to money laundering conspiracy in the Western District...
