News from July 2021
By DOL Newswire | Jul 8, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has revised its National Emphasis Program (NEP) for COVID-19. The agency launched the NEP on March 12, 2021, to focus on companies that put the largest number of workers at serious risk of contracting the coronavirus, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Clint Johnson today announced the results of the July 2021 Federal Grand Jury A.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2021
News Release: PLANO, Texas - A Gainesville convicted felon has been sentenced to federal prison for firearms violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei today.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 8, 2021
Release: PORTLAND, Oregon - Officers with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in Oregon discovered six firearms - all of them loaded - over a 10-day period during the routine X-ray screening of carry-on luggage at security checkpoints. Five of the firearms were discovered in carry-on luggage at Portland International Airport (PDX) and one was discovered at the Rogue Valley International -Medford Airport (MFR).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2021
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Rebecca F. Bragg, 37, pleaded guilty to fraud in connection with major disaster or emergency benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon announced today that the following defendants have been indicted or arrested within the last month for illegally possessing firearms and ammunition in the Capital Region.
By State Newswire | Jul 8, 2021
Release: Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry will participate in the Université de la Ville de Demain’s “The Low Carbon City for All" summit in France on July 8, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2021
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - Christopher Felix Montoya, a licensed Physician’s Assistant and owner of TPC Family Care and Medical Clinics in San Antonio and Laredo, admitted to defrauding Medicaid, Medicare and TRICARE by fraudulent billing and receiving health care kickbacks.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Dermot Shea, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), announced that LUIS LEE was charged in a criminal complaint unsealed today in Manhattan federal court with narcotics distribution resulting...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2021
News Release: BOISE - Darin Lee Meeks, 50, of Garden City, was sentenced to six years in federal prison based upon his March 2021 guilty plea to distribution of methamphetamine, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael M. Gonzalez, Jr. announced today. Meeks was indicted on the charge by a federal grand jury on June 10, 2020.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 7, 2021
News Release: Tucson, AZ - Saguaro National Park will join other state, county, and city lands agencies to initiate seasonal herbicide use to control invasive plant species within the boundaries of the park starting July 13, 2021. Ground crews will utilize backpack sprayers to target invasive buffelgrass in areas where the grass has started to green up after the rain.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 7, 2021
News Release: Water Infrastructure Projects to Address Barriers Communities of Color Face Accessing Public Health in Rural America OHKAY OWINGEH, N.M., July 7, 2021 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $307 million to modernize rural drinking water and wastewater infrastructure in 34 states and Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2021
News Release: A Louisiana man pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring with members of the Aryan Circle (AC) and others to sell methamphetamine. He is the fourth and final defendant charged in the conspiracy to enter a guilty plea.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2021
News Release: A Louisiana man pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to defraud the IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2021
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) is releasing $7.65 million in a competitive microgrant grant solicitation that will fund body-worn cameras (BWCs) to any law enforcement department with 50 or fewer full-time sworn personnel, rural agencies (those agencies within non-urban or non-metro counties); and federally-recognized Tribal agencies.
By Fed Newswire | Jul 7, 2021
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Open Market Committee on Wednesday released the attached minutes of the Committee meeting held on June 15–16, 2021.
By State Newswire | Jul 7, 2021
News Release: Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland and Counselor Derek Chollet met with Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Minister of Defense Khalid bin Salman al Saud today in Washington for discussions on regional security, support for Saudi Arabia to defend itself from cross-border attacks, and improving ...
By State Newswire | Jul 7, 2021
News Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke with Acting Haitian Prime Minister Claude Joseph today. Secretary Blinken extended condolences to the family and loved ones of President Moïse and to the people of Haiti. The Secretary also expressed the ...
By Labor Gazette | Jul 7, 2021
News Release: SEATTLE – Pipe fitters, electricians, forklift operators and carpenters working on two separate federally funded contracts on Naval Base Kitsap failed to receive the prevailing wages and benefits required for their occupations because their employer classified them incorrectly as lower-compensated general laborers.
By Labor Gazette | Jul 7, 2021
News Release: MANCHESTER, NH – Pizza shops rely on drivers to make timely deliveries to their customers. These drivers depend on their employers to pay them their hard-earned wages, as the law requires. When Checkmate Pizza in Concord and Londonderry failed to deliver all the wages drivers had earned, the U.S. Department of Labor stepped in.
