News from July 2021
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 9, 2021
Release: BURBANK, Calif. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) reminded travelers Friday to be fully aware of the contents of their carry-on luggage prior to arrival at the security checkpoint. This advice follows TSA’s discovery of a loaded firearm in the carry-on bag of a male passenger ticketed for travel from Hollywood Burbank Airport (BUR) to Las Vegas McCarran International Airport Thursday evening.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2021
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Late Thursday afternoon, a federal judge in Pensacola sentenced Tony M. Streeter, 47, of Fort Walton Beach, to 30 years in prison on multiple drug charges, firearms offenses, and a conspiracy to commit an arson related offense. The sentence, which followed a jury trial in federal court in March of this year, was announced by Jason R. Coody, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 9, 2021
Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) reminded travelers Friday to be fully aware of the contents of their carry-on luggage prior to arrival at the security checkpoint. This advice follows TSA’s discovery of a loaded firearm in the carry-on bag of a male passenger ticketed for travel from Idaho Falls Regional Airport (IDA) to Salt Lake City International Airport earlier this afternoon.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 9, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ranking Member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) today announced a bipartisan agreement to provide long-term Medicaid funding to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Territories.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2021
News Release: Jury Convicts Medical Equipment Company Owners of $27 Million Fraud.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 9, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today announced a bipartisan agreement to provide long-term Medicaid funding to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Territories.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 9, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ranking Member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) today announced a bipartisan agreement to provide long-term Medicaid funding to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Territories.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 9, 2021
News Release: PEARL, Miss. - A public notice is now available that addresses FEMA’s intention to reimburse eligible applicants in five additional counties in Mississippi for costs to repair or replace facilities damaged by the Feb. 11-19 severe winter storms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2021
News Release: Illegal timber cutting on National Forest land led to 2018 forest fire that consumed 3,300 acres.
By State Newswire | Jul 9, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By State Newswire | Jul 8, 2021
Release: The United States welcomes the announcement that Israel and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan agreed to conclude trade agreements that strengthen civilian cooperation between the two countries and will support the Palestinian people by allowing increased trade between Jordan and the West Bank. These agreements...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 8, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $7.7 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to help the state of Texas prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 8, 2021
News Release: FORT PIERRE, S.D.─ The Mni Wiconi Rural Water System repairs are complete, and all water restrictions have been lifted. Reclamation staff along with staff from the Oglala Sioux Core Rural Water System and West River Lyman Jones Rural Water System completed necessary repairs Wednesday, July 7.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2021
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of California has been sentenced in federal court to 70 months in jail on his conviction of violating federal drug laws, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 8, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – On July 6-7, 2021, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas was in Guatemala to meet with government officials and conduct site visits highlighting the partnership between the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Guatemalan counterparts. Secretary Mayorkas’ trip builds on ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2021
News Release: Avanos Medical Inc., a U.S.-based multinational medical device corporation, has agreed to pay more than $22 million to resolve a criminal charge relating to the company’s fraudulent misbranding of its MicroCool surgical gowns.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2021
News Release: Medical device manufacturers Alere Inc. and Alere San Diego Inc. (collectively, Alere) have agreed to pay $38.75 million to resolve allegations that the companies violated the False Claims Act by billing, and causing others to bill, the Medicare program for defective rapid point-of-care testing devices. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2021
News Release: St. Jude Medical Inc. (St. Jude) has agreed to pay $27 million to settle allegations under the False Claims Act that, between November 2014 and October 2016, it knowingly sold defective heart devices to health care facilities that, in turn, implanted the devices into patients insured by federal health care programs. St. Jude was acquired by Abbott Laboratories in January 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2021
News Release: A Swedish man was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for securities fraud, wire fraud and money laundering charges that defrauded thousands of victims of more than $16 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2021
News Release: The Justice Department announced that a Michigan man was sentenced today for willfully causing bodily injury to a Black teenager because of the teenager’s race.
