News from August 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Glen Allen man was sentenced today to 151 months in prison for wire fraud, engaging in an unlawful monetary transaction using fraud proceeds, and receipt of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - A Minneapolis man pleaded guilty today to possessing a firearm as a felon, announced Acting U.S. Attorney W. Anders Folk.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Edward C. Kipp, 74, of Philadelphia, PA, was convicted today at trial of failing to register as a sex offender, as required by the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA), also known as “Megan’s Law."...
By State Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
Release: On behalf of the United States of America, I congratulate the people of Singapore on the occasion of your National Day on August 9.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) slammed the Department of Education for needlessly extending pandemic-era student loan repayment delays...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - JASON PICK, age 40, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced on August 5, 2021 for committing wire fraud in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343 announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans. The Honorable Eldon Fallon sentenced PICK to 2 months incarceration, 10 months of home detention, 2 years of supervised release, a mandatory $100 special assessment fee and payment of $140,791.21 in restitution.
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 Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: (MISSOULA, Mont.) - All Bureau of Land Management lands surrounding Garnet Ghost Town are once again open to the public now that the Anderson Hill Fire has been successfully contained.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: EAST SAINT LOUIS, Ill. - Shomanicka Holly, 36, of East Saint Louis, Illinois, was arraigned in.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - A Williamsburg, Ky., man, Amos Sparkman, 26, was sentenced Thursday, to 27 years in federal prison for production of child pornography, by U.S. District Judge Claria Horn Boom.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: The Big Boulder Fire (#416) was detected within the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve on Thursday, August 5 via a satellite heat signature. Alaska Fire Service air attack flew over the area later that morning and reported the fire to be 25 acres, 70% active, burning on a ridgetop in mixed spruce...
By State Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
Release: The text of the following statement was released by the G7 foreign ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and the High Representative of the European Union.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ARBER ISAKU, 31, of Stamford, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to a charge related to his manufacturing and distributing counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl analogues.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Guatemalan national was sentenced today to 17 and a half years in prison for his role as a transportation manager in a large-scale Guatemalan drug trafficking organization (DTO).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: Miami, Florida - Today, a federal district judge in West Palm Beach sentenced a Georgia woman to 145 months in prison for leading a scam that tricked over 250 elderly South Floridians into turning over their credit cards, debit cards, and related personal identification numbers. The defendant and her co-conspirators used the cards and PINs to steal over $1.4 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Clement Robert Mercaldo, Jr., age 62, of Timonium, Maryland, pleaded guilty late yesterday to federal charges for a murder-for-hire conspiracy and for interstate communications with intent to extort, in connection to the extortion and planned murder of a Baltimore County restaurant owner and his partner over a debt.
By State Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement in response to recent developments in Ethiopia...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA-Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement on the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) July 2021 jobs report...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: In our constitutional democracy, the court is the focal point of the entire criminal justice system; its mission is to serve the public by administering justice in a fair and impartial manner, by preserving each citizen’s constitutional rights, and by faithfully applying the rule of law in each individual...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: MACON, Ga. - A Perry, Georgia, resident and career offender was sentenced to federal prison for distributing methamphetamine after he was arrested in violation of his supervised release from a prior federal conviction.
