News from August 2021
By EPA Newswire | Aug 5, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the Biden Administration announced a series of measures to address pollution from the transportation sector, including proposed fuel economy and tailpipe emissions standards for model years 2023-2026...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania, was sentenced in federal court following his conviction at trial on two counts of health care fraud, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 5, 2021
News Release: Dr. Ed Seidel testified before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on the Department of Energy’s Office of Science.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2021
News Release: Dan Borelli is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and Harvard University Graduate School of Design. His work examines the industrial past of Rhode Island and Massachusetts, particularly how industrial sites and landscapes have left lasting environmental impacts on later generations. Notably...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2021
There were 94 notices published by the Department of the Interior in June, according to the Federal Register.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 5, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced the standup of the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC) today, a new agency effort to lead the development of cyber defense operations plans, and to execute those plans in coordination with partners from the federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2021
News Release: BILLINGS - A Billings man accused of trafficking cocaine and promoting prostitution in the community by setting up a commercial sex date for an individual admitted charges today, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 5, 2021
News Release: For Jeffrey Murl, nature has always provided a source of escape and reflection. From roaming the woods and farmlands of Kentucky as a child to falling in love with Hawaii’s surf and mountains as a young man, his love for the environment has steered the course of his personal and professional life.
By State Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By State Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: Ramirez was involved in a 7 pound shipment of meth bound for Storm Lake.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, applauded the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee for passing bipartisan legislation he introduced with Senator Gary Peters (D-MI) that will help bolster...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Naval seaman Sergio Reinaldo Williams was arraigned today on an indictment charging him with cyberstalking a civilian woman. According to the indictment, in October 2020, Williams sent graphic sexual messages via social media to the victim and members of her family, posted sexual videos of...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm after leading police officers on a high-speed chase.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: The Departments of Justice and the Interior today announced next steps in the implementation of the Not Invisible Act, including the publication of a solicitation for nominations of non-federal members to join a Joint Commission on reducing violent crime against American Indians and Alaska Natives to ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Oklahoma have reached a $1.25 million agreement with defendants Rosemarie Pelfrey, Omega Enterprises LLC and Pelfrey Investment Company Inc. to resolve a Fair Housing Act lawsuit alleging that their ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: A South Florida resident was arrested yesterday in Miami on charges related to his alleged role in a scheme to bribe Venezuelan officials and launder funds to obtain contracts from Venezuela’s state-owned and state-controlled energy company, Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA), and Venezuela’s state-owned and state-controlled food company that purchased food for Venezuela, Corporación de Abastecimiento y Servicios Agrícola (CASA).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: A Virginia man was sentenced today to 240 months, or 20 years, in prison, to be followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for downloading images and videos depicting children as young as 4 years old being sexually abused, and for utilizing the Dark Net to solicit and promote child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: A North Carolina man was sentenced today to 420 months, or 35 years, in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release for enticing and sexually abusing a minor. Emilio Moran, 39, of Jacksonville, pleaded guilty on Aug. 17, 2020, to sexual abuse of a minor and enticement of a minor to engage in unlawful ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2021
News Release: Dalton Kurtz, 31, an officer with the Muncie Police Department (MPD), in Muncie, Indiana, pleaded guilty today to one count of misprision of felony, for concealing and failing to report a fellow officer’s inappropriate use of force.
