News from July 2021

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Chesapeake man was convicted today on methamphetamine and money laundering charges after a three-day bench trial.

By US DOT Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will host two virtual public workshops next week about the airspace in Northern California.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Committee Members Rep. Robin Kelly and Rep. Cori Bush released a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on the public health impact of America’s gun violence epidemic. Senator Elizabeth Warren and Senator Ed Markey joined the Members in highlighting the report and calling for Congress to act to protect Americans from gun violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A California man was convicted today of conspiracy and manufacturing, distributing, and possessing with intent to manufacture and distribute a fentanyl analogue, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A California man was convicted today of conspiracy and manufacturing, distributing, and possessing with intent to manufacture and distribute a fentanyl analogue, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics today released the Report on Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2020-Executive Summary and Indicator 2: Incidence of Victimization at School and Away From School.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: For Securities Fraud. HAMMOND- Richard E. Gearhart, age 71, of St. John, Indiana was sentenced before U.S. District Court Judge Philip P. Simon upon his plea of guilty to conspiracy to commit securities fraud, announced United States Attorney Tina L. Nommay. Gearhart was sentenced to 60 months in prison...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MICHAEL McGUIRK, 37, of Windham, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to three months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for theft of mail by a postal employee.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a joint Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee and Energy Subcommittee hearing titled, “Keeping Us Safe and Secure: Oversight of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission:"
By DOE Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), delivered the following remarks at a business meeting to consider energy infrastructure legislation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Richard G. Frohling of the Eastern District of Wisconsin joined Acting Assistant Attorney General Nicholas L. McQuaid of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and other federal officials in announcing that July 14, 2021 Stephen Smith, (42), of Milwaukee, WI was sentenced today...

By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Upton (R-MI) delivered opening remarks at today’s hearing on America’s changing nuclear power industry.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
Release: CHARLOTTE - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is holding a recruiting Friday and Saturday to assist individuals interested in applying for a job as a Transportation Security Officer (TSO) at Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT) and Asheville Regional Airport (AVL).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: PINCKNEYVILLE, Ill. - The former treasurer of the Perry County Agricultural Society (“PCAS") is.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: Each year, the U.S. Census Bureau brings together cross-sector collaborators during The Opportunity Project ’s (TOP) technology development sprints to come up with ways to use data and technology to solve some of the world’s biggest challenges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: Husband, Wife Each Face At Least 15 Years in Prison.

By US DOT Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The following are opening remarks, as prepared for delivery, from 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) during today’s hearing titled, “President Biden’s Fiscal Year 2022 Budget Request: Agency Policies and Perspectives (Part II)." More information on the hearing can be found here.

By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has made two awards totaling $153 million to the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL). The awards were announced today by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo at the NIIMBL annual meeting in Washington, D.C.
By State Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
Release: This month, the United States honors slain journalists Natalya Estemirova and Paul Klebnikov. Klebnikov, a Forbes magazine journalist and U.S. citizen, investigated and exposed corruption in post-Soviet Russia. On July 9, 2004, he was shot and killed in Moscow, likely in retaliation for his work. Estemirova ...

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DAVID BURDEN, 40, of Norwalk, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegal possession of a firearm.