News from July 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANTHONY WHITLEY, 38, of New London, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 18 months of imprisonment for violating the conditions of his federal supervised release.
By State Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued a statement following the passage of H.R. 3524, the Ensuring American Global Leadership and Engagement (EAGLE) Act out of committee...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - A federal jury convicted a Minneapolis man for engaging in abusive sexual contact on an airplane, announced Acting U.S. Attorney W. Anders Folk.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today led colleagues in pressing the national lobbying arm of the wireless telecommunications industry regarding possible interference in the implementation of the National Suicide Hotline Designation Act, threatening key crisis response services related to the new three-digit National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and the Veterans Crisis Line.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 23 years in jail and 15 years supervised release on his conviction of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By State Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul released the following statement ahead of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s meeting with President Biden at the White House today.
By State Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul has released the following statement after the committee passed the Ensuring American Global Leadership and Engagement (EAGLE) Act with no Republican support.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 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 $1.5 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the city of Dyersville, Iowa, to create and expand water and wastewater infrastructure to support tourism and business growth. This EDA grant, to be matched with $1 million in local funds, is expected to create 350 jobs and generate $90 million in private investment.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Republican lawmakers pressed Dr. Francis Collins, the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, ...
By State Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
Release: Hi everyone. I’m delighted to join the inaugural International Religious Freedom Summit, to reiterate the Biden Administration’s commitment to promote and defend religious freedom around the world for everyone. Freedom of religion or belief is a human right. It goes to the heart of what it means to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Virginia Hernandez Covington has sentenced Lori Owen, a/k/a Lori Corrigan (50, Holiday), to five years and three months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit bank, wire, and mail fraud. As part of her sentence, the Court also ordered restitution to the identified victims in the amount of $620,103, and entered a money judgment of $265,964, representing the proceeds of the fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - United States District Court Judge E. Richard Webber sentenced Bailey Colletta to three years of probation and two consecutive weekends of imprisonment on today’s date. The 28-year-old St. Louis, Missouri resident pleaded guilty in September 2019 to making false statements to a federal grand...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI -United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced today that Keilin Lopez Lopez, 22, a resident of St. Thomas, pleaded guilty in federal court to possession with intent to distribute approximately 4.6 kilograms of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment today against Fresno residents David Garcia, 31; Luis Perez, 34; and Gerardo Perez, 48, charging them with conspiracy to distribute and to possess with the intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine and methamphetamine, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By State Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
Release: The United States is deeply troubled by the Georgian Parliament’s July 12 approval of six Supreme Court nominees, in contravention of the April 19 agreement between ruling and opposition party representatives.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: Dillon Jordan Allegedly Operated a Long-Running and International Prostitution Service Under the Cover of Running a Film Business.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Passaic County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 45 months in prison for distributing fentanyl, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By State Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: Washington D.C.- House Foreign Affairs Lead Republican Michael McCaul gave the following opening remarks at a full committee hearing highlighting the Biden Administration’s foreign assistance priorities and USAID’s FY22 budget request.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: Defendants Admit Illegally Transferring, or Using, Insider Information for the Purpose of Trading Infinera Securities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis Holmes announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance (methamphetamine) was sentenced on July 12, 2021, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
