News from July 2021
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today cheered the announcement that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) would soon begin to accept applications from states for planning grants to develop community-based mobile crisis intervention services for Americans with Medicaid. Wyden fought to include the grants, as well as an enhanced federal Medicaid funding for these services, in the American Rescue Plan earlier this year.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau released the total number of 2020 Census paid temporary workers that earned any pay June 27 - July 3, 2021. The data tables include national totals for all 50 states and the District of Columbia by Census Bureau regional geography. A weekly number of paid temporary workers for Puerto Rico is also available. The weekly release will occur 10 days after the end of the weekly period.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: INTERNATIONAL FALLS, MN: Voyageurs National Park has implemented temporary restrictions on all campfires including charcoal grills and barbecues effective immediately until further notice. This restriction is implemented park-wide, and includes day-use, houseboat, tent, and backcountry sites, even if...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Harlie Christian Shaw, of Clarksburg, West Virginia, has admitted to a firearms charge, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued Emergency Directive (ED) 21-04 today to mitigate a Microsoft Windows print spooler service vulnerability CVE-2021-34527 being actively exploited. Federal civilian agencies are required to immediately disable the print spooler...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: The House Appropriations Committee today approved the fiscal year 2022 Homeland Security funding bill on a 33-24 vote.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - United States District Court Judge E. Richard Webber sentenced former SLMPD Police Officer Randy Hays to a 52-month term of imprisonment on today’s date. The 34-year-old St. Louis, Missouri resident pleaded guilty in November 2019 to using unreasonable and excessive force against a fellow St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department officer whom Hays mistakenly believed was a protestor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - On Friday afternoon, a federal judge in Tallahassee sentenced Madison King, 23, of Nashville, Georgia, to 25 years in prison on charges of conspiracy to produce, distribute, possess, and receive child pornography. The sentence, which followed her guilty plea last year, was announced by Jason R. Coody, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: A Monticello woman, who enticed a minor to engage in sexual activity, pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: ANCHORAGE - A Bethel, Alaska, man was sentenced by U.S. Chief District Judge Timothy M. Burgess to 15 years in federal prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for trying to sexually entice a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - A former Department of Defense civilian official has pleaded guilty to two felony charges for taking tens of thousands of dollars in illegal cash payments from a private contractor to support the contractor’s effort to obtain $6.4 million from the government in connection with construction projects on a Navy base in the African nation of Djibouti, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Glenshaw, Pennsylvania, was sentenced in federal court to a charge of violating federal narcotics trafficking laws, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: Summary: At 8:22pm on July 12, 2021, the Color Country Interagency Communication Center received a report of a wildland fire start. Local resources are on scene and aerial resources have been requested. Smoke can be seen from St. George, Utah.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that PEDRO VICIOSO DE LIMA, a/k/a “Pep," a/k/a “Pepo," was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 180 months in prison for leading a drug trafficking organization (the “DTO") that was responsible for dealing...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A federal grand jury returned a six-count indictment charging Juan Tyler López Gerraughty with six counts related to three armed robberies, announced W. Stephen Muldrow, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Brockton man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: Defendant conspired with others to traffic heroin, fentanyl, cocaine and other drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Master Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force assigned to Nellis Air Force Base was sentenced today to 32 months in prison for selling a large quantity of methamphetamine and for trafficking firearms (including an AK-47 rifle) without a Federal Firearms License.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: BOISE - Cainen Bleu Johnson, 43, of Nampa, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, Acting United States Attorney Rafael M. Gonzalez, Jr., announced today. Johnson was indicted by a federal grand jury in Boise on April 14, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: The Florida Department of Children and Families (FDCF) has agreed to pay the United States $17,500,000 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act in its administration of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the Department of Justice announced today. Until 2008, SNAP was known as the Food Stamp Program.
