News from August 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - Co-owners of a New Hampshire asbestos abatement company were sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for making false statements to employee pension plans.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2021
News Release: SPRINGDALE, UT - Zion National Park officials have confirmed that John Henry Wolfe, age 32 from Milwaukee, Wisconsin passed away yesterday. On Monday, Aug. 30, Zion Dispatch received a report of a 32-year-old male complaining of heat exhaustion at the exit route of the Left Fork of North Creek (Subway). ZION park medics and emergency medical technicians (EMTs) were dispatched to Wolfe’s location and found him unresponsive.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 31, 2021
News Release: Federal, state and local officials joined NOAA today at a groundbreaking ceremony marking the start of a project to revitalize the agency’s port facility in Ketchikan, Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that MARCO RIVERA-MEJIA, 36, a citizen of Honduras last residing in East Hartford, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 36 months of imprisonment for trafficking fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2021
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Dominic Session, a multi-convicted felon, will spend the next 17½ years in federal prison for illegally possessing a firearm. Jonathan D. Ross, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced the sentence, which was handed down Monday by United States District Judge James M. Moody, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2021
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven today sentenced Marchaun Browning (24, Gibsonton) to 5 years in federal prison, to be followed by 10 years of supervised release, for distributing and possessing child pornography.
By State Newswire | Aug 31, 2021
Release: On the occasion of Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry’s visit to Japan, Japan and the United States issued the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Receiving Child Pornography was sentenced on Aug. 26, 2021, by Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 31, 2021
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - EM recently awarded Oak Ridge cleanup contractor UCOR $10.9 million for its performance from October 2020 through March 2021, amounting to 98% of the available fee for the evaluation period.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2021
News Release: CHEYENNE, Wyo. - In compliance with a recent district court decision (Louisiana v Biden), the Bureau of Land Management is asking for public feedback on the 459 deferred parcels that were previously under consideration for competitive auction at Wyoming’s deferred March and June 2021 lease sales. These...
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 31, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Grace F. Napolitano (D-CA) released the following statements after a federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona overturned the Trump-era Navigable Waters Protection Rule, more commonly known as the “Dirty Water Rule."
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Possession of a Stolen Firearm and Receipt of a Firearm While Under Indictment.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Javier Jaquez, 50, of Albuquerque, was sentenced on Aug. 26 to 32 years in federal prison. On Sept. 18, 2020, Jaquez pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute 100 grams and more of heroin, possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2021
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - A Minneapolis man pleaded guilty today to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute fentanyl, announced Acting U.S. Attorney W. Anders Folk.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - A man has been sentenced to six years in federal prison for illegally possessing a stolen semi-automatic handgun in Douglas Park on Chicago’s West Side.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2021
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that three defendants have been sentenced by Chief United States District Judge S. Maurice Hicks, Jr. to federal prison for their involvement in the trafficking of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2021
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Joey Miles Sherwood, 31, of Center Rutland, Vermont, was arrested yesterday for the Aug. 1, 2021 knifepoint robbery of the Cumberland Farms convenience store in Wallingford, Vermont. Sherwood will be appearing this afternoon...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2021
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal judge today sentenced a Washington state resident for conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp, Jr.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 31, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) published a cybersecurity advisory today to highlight precautions and mitigation steps that public and private sector organizations can take to reduce their risk to ransomware and other...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 31, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau released the total number of 2020 Census paid temporary workers that earned any pay Aug. 15 - Aug. 21, 2021. The data tables include national totals for all 50 states and the District of Columbia by Census Bureau regional geography. A weekly number of paid temporary workers for Puerto Rico is also available. The weekly release will occur 10 days after the end of the weekly period.
