News from August 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - James Flanders, 42, of Laconia, pleaded guilty on Tuesday in federal court to conspiracy to tamper with a witness, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 5, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to Invest Aurora, Aurora, Illinois, to capitalize and administer a Revolving Loan Fund, providing gap...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2021
News Release: Minneapolis, MN - Eric Reinbold, 44, the primary suspect in the July 9 death of his wife in Oklee, Minnesota, was being sought by the U.S. Marshals Service, Pennington County and Red Lake County Sheriff’s Offices and the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. He was captured yesterday morning by...
By State Newswire | Aug 5, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 5, 2021
News Release: DENVER - The Federal Emergency Management Agency has provided $3.1 million in Public Assistance funding for the University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics COVID-19 response. The assistance was made available under a major disaster declaration issued April 4, 2020. FEMA has provided a total of $100.6 million for Utah’s COVID-19 response to date.
By Valerie Bonk | Aug 5, 2021
A coalition of animal welfare groups filed a formal petition with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to re-list the gray wolf as an endangered species, according to a Western Watersheds Project post.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2021
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Eleven members of a methamphetamine trafficking ring have been ordered to serve prison sentences ranging from 36 months to 210 months for federal drug conspiracy charges, announced William T. Stetzer, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2021
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel today sentenced Marvel David Yarborough, age 30, of Capitol Heights, Maryland, to seven years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute controlled substances and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 5, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - President Biden today approved more than $3.46 billion to increase resilience to the impacts of climate change nationwide. This significant investment will be available for natural hazard mitigation measures across the 59 major disaster declarations issued due to the COVID-19 global pandemic.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 5, 2021
News Release: Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas released the following statement on Deferred Enforcement Departure for certain residents of Hong Kong: “Today President Biden issued a memorandum directing the Department of Homeland Security to take appropriate measures to defer for 18 months the ...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 5, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – President Biden today approved more than $3.46 billion to increase resilience to the impacts of climate change nationwide. This significant investment will be available for natural hazard mitigation measures across the 59 major disaster declarations issued due to the COVID-19 global pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2021
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has repatriated an additional $452 million in misappropriated 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) funds to the people of Malaysia, bringing the total returned to over $1.2 billion.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2021
News Release: Ascension Michigan and related hospitals, Providence Park Hospital, St. John Hospital and Medical Center, St. John Macomb Oakland Hospital and Ascension Crittenton Hospital (collectively, Ascension Michigan), all located in Michigan, have agreed to pay $2.8 million to resolve claims that they violated ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2021
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has entered into a proposed consent decree to settle a voting rights lawsuit with the State of New Jersey and state officials.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2021
News Release: A federal jury convicted five former officers and employees of Banc-Serv Partners LLP (Banc-Serv) — a lending service provider — in a 13-year conspiracy to defraud the Small Business Administration (SBA) in connection with its programs to guarantee loans made to small businesses. According to the evidence ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2021
News Release: Attorney General Merrick B. Garland and Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke for the Civil Rights Division announced today that the Justice Department has opened a pattern or practice investigation into the City of Phoenix and the Phoenix Police Department (PhxPD). This investigation will assess ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2021
News Release: A federal jury convicted two men for engaging in a multi-year fraud scheme to manipulate U.S. commodities markets for publicly traded precious metals futures contracts.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2021
News Release: The Tennessee Department of Human Services (TDHS) has agreed to pay the United States $6,854,416 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act in its administration of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Until 2008, SNAP was known ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2021
News Release: The Department of Justice today filed criminal charges under the Clean Water Act against Summit Midstream Partners LLC, a North Dakota pipeline company that discharged 29 million gallons of produced water from its pipeline near Williston, North Dakota, over the course of nearly five months in 2014-2015.
By Fed Newswire | Aug 5, 2021
News Release: Following its stress test earlier this year, the Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the individual capital requirements for all large banks, effective on October 1. Those capital requirements ensure that the large banks tested will hold roughly $1 trillion in high-quality capital—enough to survive a severe recession and still be able to lend to households and businesses.
