News from July 2021
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today released new data from the fifth phase of the Small Business Pulse Survey (SBPS). Data collection began May 17. Results will be released weekly May 27 to July 22. The SBPS includes questions on small business operations and finances, requests and receipt of assistance, COVID-19 vaccinations and testing, measures of overall well-being, and expectations for recovery.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: The House Appropriations Committee today released its reports accompanying the fiscal year 2022 Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies and Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies appropriations bills.
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: Eight Co-Defendants Previously Admitted to Their Roles to Conspiracy to Distribute Fentanyl, Heroin, Cocaine, and Crack Cocaine.
By State Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
Release: Ambassador Philip T. Reeker will serve as Chargé d’Affaires, ad interim, at the Embassy of the United States of America to the Court of St. James’s, as of Aug. 1, 2021. A career diplomat with the rank of Minister Counselor, Ambassador Reeker is currently the Acting Assistant Secretary of State for ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - A Jackson County man pleaded guilty to being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Kurt Thielhorn, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: AVON, CO - A Colorado state court has sentenced the owner of an Avon construction company to jail and ordered restitution for the family of a 50-year-old company worker who suffered fatal injuries in a preventable trench collapse at a Granby work site in June 2018.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- FEMA announced that federal disaster assistance has been made available to the state of Michigan to supplement state, tribal and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by severe storms, flooding and tornadoes from June 25-26, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: STATESBORO, GA: A Screven County man was sentenced to federal prison after admitting that he distributed child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment today against Andres Nunez, 23, of Fresno, charging him with distribution of fentanyl to a person under 21 years old and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: CAÑON CITY, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Royal Gorge Field Office is seeking public comments on a draft Environmental Assessment considering the proposed mine road realignment and expansion of the Hard Rock Main Pit aggregate mine south of Salida in Chaffee County, CO. The draft Environmental Assessment analyzed the effect of the proposal on communities and natural resources in the area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: Jackson, MS - Teressia Garner, 60, of Minden, Louisiana, pleaded guilty on July 9, 2021, to embezzling, and converting government funds to her own use, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca; Douglas Williams, FBI Special Agent in Charge, New Orleans Field Division; Dax Robertson, USDA OIG Special Agent in Charge in New Orleans; and Stephen Street, Louisiana Inspector General.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
Release: Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee and the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Committee's markup of the fiscal year 2022 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Darius Augusto Guzman Ruiz, 30, of Manchester, was sentenced to 63 months in federal prison for participating in a fentanyl trafficking conspiracy, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement on the first round of expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC) monthly advance payments, which begin reaching millions of American families today...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Akop Atoyan, 48, of Glendale, pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and one count of conspiracy to pay and receive health care kickbacks, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: Facility in Clark County, Washington failed to ensure effective communication for inmates who are deaf.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Box Elder, South Dakota, man convicted of Receipt of Child Pornography and Possession of Child Pornography was sentenced on July 8, 2021, by Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
Release: Miami, Florida. - A 27-year-old California man who caused a disturbance last week during a passenger flight from Los Angeles to Miami made his first appearance in federal court today on a charge of interfering with flight crew members and attendants.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis Holmes announced that a Parmelee, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer.
