News from August 2021
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 24, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Republican Leader Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX), Budget Committee Republican Leader Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO), and Small Business Committee Republican Leader Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-MO) issued the following statement applauding the passage of Senator Steve Daines’s (R-MT) amendment protecting against tax hikes on small businesses, and preserving the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act’s 20 percent small business tax deduction...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2021
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Detroit, Michigan man pleaded guilty yesterday to federal drug crimes.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 24, 2021
News Release: FILLMORE, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management Fillmore Field Office has temporarily closed the White Sands Campground located in Little Sahara Recreation Area due to significant damage from flooding. The closure is effective immediately and will remain in place until repairs can be made to the access road and campsites.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 24, 2021
News Release: Denali National Park and Preserve announced that a portion of the 92-mile Denali Park Road will close today due to a fast-moving landslide creating unsafe road conditions at Polychrome Pass. The Denali Park Road typically closes to vehicle traffic beyond the Teklanika Rest Area (mile 30) in mid-September.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2021
News Release: Cleveland Ohio - Federal, county and local law enforcement officials today announced that a Canton man was indicted for Distribution of a Controlled Substance, Methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2021
News Release: Each face up to life in federal prison for violent crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2021
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Peter R. Kiwitt, 62, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa to sex trafficking by coercion. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2021
News Release: NASHVILLE - A Nashville man was charged today with civil rights violations for his role in the arson of four Nashville area churches, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Mary Jane Stewart for the Middle District of Tennessee and Assistant Attorney General Kristen M. Clarke of the Civil Rights Division.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 24, 2021
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Lorex Produce LLC satisfied a $48,826 reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) involving unpaid produce transactions.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 24, 2021
News Release: Washington -The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today issued new guidance regarding how it will enforce the Packers and Stockyards Act in light of the final rule issued on Dec. 10, 2020, in a continuing effort to modernize and enforce the 100-year old authority to the full extent of the law.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A New York Life insurance broker was sentenced today to 27 months in prison for his role in a scheme to fraudulently use his association with the company to solicit investor money, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By State Newswire | Aug 24, 2021
Release: Four years ago, Burma’s military launched a horrific ethnic cleansing against Rohingya in northern Rakhine State. The brutality of the military’s atrocities on that day shocked the conscience of the international community - but we recognize the Rohingya had already suffered decades of grave human rights...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 24, 2021
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - A report released last week by the East Tennessee Economic Council shows DOE creates $7.2 billion in economic benefits and high-quality jobs annually for the state’s economy through research, national security, and environmental cleanup missions in Oak Ridge.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A California couple pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit forced labor. According to court documents, Nery A. Martinez Vasquez, 53, and his wife Maura N. Martinez, 53, both of Shasta Lake, are naturalized United States citizens, originally from Guatemala. They owned and operated...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2021
News Release: Related To COVID Cares Act Economic Injury Disaster Loan.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 24, 2021
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - The National Park Service (NPS) is conducting a missing person search at Grand Canyon National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A New York, man was sentenced today to 57 months in prison for his participation in a heroin mill located in the Bronx, New York, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 24, 2021
News Release: Bidenflation Continues to Shrink Families’ Paychecks.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A Maryland resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of theft of government funds, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2021
News Release: ST. THOMAS, USVI - U.S. Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced today that three (3) South American nationals charged by Complaint on Aug. 19, 2021, with possession of cocaine onboard a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States were ordered detained by United States Magistrate Ruth Miller pending trial in this matter.
