News from July 2021
By State Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Representatives Gregory W. Meeks, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement after returning from leading a bipartisan Congressional delegation (CODEL) to the Middle East, the first CODEL to represent the U.S. abroad this Congress...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: Iranian Intelligence Services Allegedly Plotted to Kidnap a U.S. Journalist and Human Rights Activist from New York City for Rendition to Iran.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: Court Described Deputy as “Brave" for Approaching the Man While Unarmed.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued a memorandum updating its enforcement guidance for compliance safety and health officers (CSHOs) when inspecting tree care and tree removal operations.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- As Congress works to craft major infrastructure policy, leaders of the Ways and Means Committee’s Racial Equity Initiative (REI) shared their priorities and recommendations for the legislation. In a memorandum to Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), REI Co-Chairs Reps. Steven Horsford (D-NV),...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, the Senate voted to confirm Julie Su, to serve as U.S. Deputy Secretary of Labor by a vote of 50-47. In remarks on the Senate floor, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, reiterated her strong support for...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Agriculture Committee Chairman David Scott of Georgia issued the following statement in response to the USDA’s Announcement on Providing Pandemic Assistance to Livestock Producers for Animal Losses...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: CINCINNATI - The former bookkeeper of My Sister’s House, a now-shuttered domestic violence shelter in Washington Court House, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to two counts related to stealing funds from the federally funded shelter.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
Release: WARRINGTON, Pa. - Residents of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, will be able to enroll in the Transportation Security Administration’s popular TSA PreCheck® program in the AAA parking lot in Warrington, Pennsylvania, from July 26 to 30, where officials will host a temporary “pop-up" enrollment center in the air conditioned TSA PreCheck mobile RV.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: POINT REYES STATION, Calif. - The National Park Service announced today the selection of Five Brooks Camp to operate overnight camping with horses at the Point Reyes Horse Camp. The concession contract was awarded through a competitive selection process. Five Brooks Camp currently operates the horse camp through a temporary concession contract awarded in 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: Jujamcyn Agrees to Provide Dozens of Additional Wheelchair Accessible and Aisle Transfer Seating Locations, and Remove Hundreds of Barriers to Accessibility.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: DENVER - National Park Service (NPS) Regional Director Mike Reynolds announced the selection of Lloyd Masayumptewa as superintendent of Montezuma Castle and Tuzigoot National Monuments in Arizona. Lloyd Masayumptewa (Piivayouma) is Hopi from the third mesa village of Orayvi (Old Oraibi) and is of the...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, during a hearing, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, urged her colleagues to support the nominations of Catherine Lhamon, to be Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the Department of Education (ED), ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: DETROIT - Detroit resident Darrell Baker was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison on charges of bank fraud and money laundering arising out of a $590,000 Covid-19 fraud scheme, announced Acting United States Attorney Saima Mohsin.
By Trina Thomas | Jul 13, 2021
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is partnering with the National Marine Fisheries Service as they commit to improve and strengthen the Endangered Species Act (ESA) after releasing a plan of action in June.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: Miami, Florida - On July 12, 2021, Los Angeles County, California natives, Dane Roseman, 38, and Ivan Acevedo, 44, pled guilty to participating in a massive investment fraud scheme, in which more than 7,000 victims suffered financial losses, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371. Co-defendant Robert Shapiro...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: Defendant Attempted to Steal More than $200,000 from Her Two Former Employers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: ST. PAUL, Minn. - A Saint Paul man was sentenced yesterday to 210 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for illegally possessing a firearm.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: Jessica Barr has been selected as the new Chief Ranger for Visitor and Resource Protection at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and Rainbow Bridge National Monument. She will transition full time on August 1st to this new position. She has been acting in the Chief Ranger position since Lance Mattson retired earlier this spring.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Richard G. Frohling of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that on July 7, 2021, a federal grand jury indicted four men, in two separate cases, for various offenses committed during the unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in August 2020.
