News from August 2021
By DOL Newswire | Aug 3, 2021
News Release: TAVARES, FL - In the early afternoon of March 2, 2021, a 44-year-old electrical technician at an Orlando work site climbed down into a trench to splice electrical wires to power streetlights. Not long after, the worker made contact with live wires and suffered fatal electrocution, a death the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigators deemed avoidable had the employer taken required safety measures.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Susan A. Gibson and Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Rachael A. Honig announced a Hudson County, New Jersey, man today admitted possessing with intent to distribute heroin, cocaine and cocaine base.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2021
News Release: Memphis, TN - Jacobly Whitehead, 27, of Greenwood, Mississippi, has pleaded guilty to Hobbs Act robbery and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence. Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph C. Murphy Jr., announced the plea today.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 3, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, experts at a hearing to examine the persistent and concerning threat posed by domestic terrorists and violent extremists commended U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, for his bipartisan work in Congress...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2021
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Chinese national and naturalized U.S. citizen pleaded guilty yesterday to his involvement in a conspiracy to launder at least $30 million in drug proceeds on behalf of foreign drug trafficking organizations. Another Chinese national was sentenced to 7 years in prison today for his role in the same conspiracy.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 3, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- FEMA has extended funding for Emergency Non-Congregate Sheltering during the COVID-19 public health emergency until Nov. 30, 2021, as the agency continues to help protect people during their recovery from hurricanes and wildfires. Under this policy, FEMA reimburses state, tribal and territorial governments partial cost of providing non-congregate sheltering for people who must evacuate during a disaster.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2021
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal judge today sentenced a convicted felon for illegally possessing a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Mickey French.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2021
News Release: Agreement Includes Lifetime Ban from Participating in Federal Programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2021
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal judge today sentenced a convicted felon for illegally possessing a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Mickey French.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2021
News Release: Annor and His Co-conspirators Laundered More Than $6,200,000 Taken from Over 200 Victims in the United States and Overseas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2021
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Andrew Benson, of Morgantown, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 16 months of incarceration for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy, Acting U.S. Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 3, 2021
News Release: Today, NOAA-supported scientists announced that this year’s Gulf of Mexico “dead zone "- an area of low to no oxygen that can kill fish and marine life - is approximately 6,334 square miles, or equivalent to more than four million acres of habitat potentially unavailable to fish and bottom species.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2021
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Chinese national and naturalized U.S. citizen pleaded guilty yesterday to his involvement in a conspiracy to launder at least $30 million in drug proceeds on behalf of foreign drug trafficking organizations. Another Chinese national was sentenced to 7 years in prison today for his role in the same conspiracy.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 3, 2021
Release: DES MOINES, Iowa - Passenger volume has increased with the start of the summer travel season, and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is prepared to handle an increase in the number of travelers who will be flying out of Des Moines International Airport.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 3, 2021
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - EM ’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) is not only back, it’s back with an exclamation mark.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 3, 2021
Release: Washington -August is the most critical time of year to spot the Asian longhorned beetle (ALB) as adult activity peaks. That’s why the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is declaring August as “Tree Check Month" for this invasive pest. Checking trees for the beetle and the damage it causes is how ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2021
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 40-year old Laredo man has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction for attempting to smuggle ammunition out of the United States, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2021
News Release: The Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son Limited Pays $5.6 Million in Forfeiture and Restitution; Receives Non-Prosecution Agreement as a Result of its Cooperation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2021
News Release: Ashley C. Hoff, the United States Attorney for the Western District of Texas, releases this statement on the second anniversary of the mass shooting in an El Paso Walmart that resulted in the deaths of 23 individuals and injured numerous others.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 3, 2021
News Release: LAS VEGAS - EM officials met with representatives of tribal-owned businesses and Alaska Native corporations to discuss how they can support the cleanup program during the recent Reservation Economic Summit (RES) 2021.
