News from July 2021
By EPA 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 DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Matthew Bald, 40, of Lockport, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession of child pornography involving a prepubescent minor. The charge carries a minimum sentence of 10 years in prison, a maximum of 20 years, lifetime supervised release, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge Marcia Morales Howard has sentenced Colum Patrick Moran, Jr. (43, Jacksonville) to 64 years in federal prison for attempting to entice minors to produce images and videos depicting child sexual abuse and for possessing materials depicting the sexual exploitation of children on his electronic devices. Moran was also ordered to serve a lifetime term of supervised release and to register as a sex offender.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced additional Biden-Harris Administration appointees that have joined the team to help advance President Biden’s ambitious Build Back Better agenda to combat climate change, create good-paying jobs, and win the clean energy future for all Americans.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) applauded the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee for passing their bipartisan Pray Safe Act to establish a federal...
By State Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
Release: Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry had a phone call on July 14 with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss U.S.-Russia cooperation on combatting the climate crisis. Special Presidential Envoy Kerry emphasized that the United States and Russia have important roles to play, including ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - A federal jury returned a guilty verdict today against Dillon James Merritt, 54, of Many, Louisiana, charging him with kidnapping, interstate domestic violence and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced. United States District Judge Donald E. Walter presided over the trial.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: The House Appropriations Committee today released its reports accompanying the fiscal year 2022 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies and Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies appropriations bills.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - Two Atlantic County men have been charged with conspiring to distribute heroin, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: A man pleaded guilty today in federal court for assaulting a woman with a piece of door trim that had a nail protruding from it, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Ben Cardin and Congressman Anthony G. Brown, Senator Chris Van Hollen and Congressman Dutch Ruppersberger (All-D-Md.), as well as Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.-12) and Chairman of the House Armed Services Readiness Subcommittee John...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee held a business meeting to consider several nominees, including...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - Dominick Anderson, 31, of St. Louis, Missouri, appeared before United States District Court Judge Henry E. Autrey on today’s date and pleaded guilty to armed robbery and brandishing a firearm in furtherance of that crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Bob Murray announced today that AVERY FITZGERALD BROWN, 27, of Fort Washakie, Wyoming was sentenced to 175 months of imprisonment, followed by 10 years of supervised release, by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Scott W. Skavdahl. In a change of plea hearing held on April...
By State Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today gave the following opening remarks at a full committee hearing on the FY 2022 U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) budget request. The committee heard witness testimony from the Honorable Samantha Power, administrator of USAID.
By State Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: DAYTON - David Joseph Carter II, 21, of Powell, Ohio, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to robbing a local Dollar General store five times while armed.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - In an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Subcommittee on the Environment and Climate Change Republican Leader David B. McKinley (R-WV) questioned the Left’s motives when it comes to nuclear energy.
By State Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
Release: The International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law (IIJ) today released an IIJ Criminal Justice Practitioner’s Guide for Addressing Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremism (REMVE) developed under the IIJ REMVE initiative, supported by the United States and the United Kingdom. This...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Ryan Ashley Hubbs, of Paris, Ohio, was sentenced today to 124 months of incarceration for carjacking, Acting U.S. Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
