News from July 2021
By USDA Wire | Jul 28, 2021
The US Agriculture Department published a one page proposed rule on July 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - A Red Lake man has been arrested and charged with one count of second degree murder and four counts of assault with a dangerous weapon in connection to the shooting death of a Red Lake Tribal Police Officer, announced Acting U.S. Attorney W. Anders Folk.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced today that Troy Lance Patterson age 52, of St. Croix was sentenced on July 27, 2021 in federal court by Judge Wilma Lewis to a term of sixty months of incarceration for Carrying of a Firearm during a Drug Trafficking Offense followed by four months of incarceration on the Illegal Use of Utility charge, to be served consecutively. Patterson had pled guilty to the charges on Oct. 20, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Joseph E. Stasney, a/k/a Buddy Stasney, 59, of Denver, N.C., appeared before U.S. District Judge Kenneth D. Bell today and pleaded guilty to wire fraud, for executing a fraudulent auto loan scheme to obtain in excess of $250,000 from a financial institution, announced William T. Stetzer, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: Thurmont, Md. - Due to increased security measures, portions of Catoctin Mountain Park will be closed at approximately 1 p.m. on Friday, July 30. Closures are scheduled to continue through approximately 8 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 1, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man was arrested yesterday on charges of illegally possessing a handgun, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: BANGOR, Maine-An Eddington man was sentenced in federal court today for possessing firearms after being convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence, Acting U.S. Attorney Donald E. Clark announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: NICHOLASVILLE, KY - The National Park Service (NPS) today announced the acquisition of the 85.84-acre Glass Farm from Jessamine County, as the newest unit of the Camp Nelson National Monument.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Kimberly Fleer (27, Seffner) has pleaded guilty to distributing fentanyl to an individual, causing that individual’s death. Fleer faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years, and up to life, in federal prison. A sentencing hearing has not yet been scheduled.
By State Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
Release: The United States is designating one Turkey-based al-Qa’ida financial facilitator for materially assisting al-Qa’ida and one Syria-based terrorist fundraiser and recruiter for providing material support to Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS), a group linked with al-Qa’ida. These designations were made pursuant to Executive Order 13224, as amended, a counterterrorism sanctions authority.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), and Senator Jim Risch (R-ID) introduced S.2506, the Tree Spiking Mitigation Act. This legislation will reduce the dangers that trees spiked by eco-terrorists pose to firefighters, loggers, and sawmill workers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A Port Arthur man has pleaded guilty to a federal firearms violation in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal grand jury yesterday indicted a Vestavia man for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Mickey French.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A Texas Syndicate gang member has been ordered to federal prison for possessing a semi-automatic handgun in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime and possession with intent to distribute meth, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 55-year-old local woman has been ordered to federal prison for conspiring to entice a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing child pornography, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Dashawn Duncan, 27, of South Orange, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for his role in conspiring to defraud two banks of $250,000 using stolen credit cards and blank checks, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and House Ways & Means Committee Chair Richard E. Neal, D-Mass., today released new data requested from the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) on the prevalence of mega-IRA accounts.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $60 million for 24 research and development projects aimed at reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from passenger cars and light- and heavy-duty trucks. The projects will help decarbonize the transportation sector and enhance the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Ricardo Carter II, age 37, of Camp Springs, Maryland, pleaded guilty yesterday to federal charges of bank fraud and aggravated identity theft, in connection with a check kiting and credit scheme using the stolen identity information of coworkers and job applicants to open fraudulent bank and credit accounts, causing more than $119,000 in losses to victim financial institutions.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, chaired by Rep. James E. Clyburn, held a hearing to assess evictions carried out by corporate landlords during the coronavirus pandemic and the distribution of federal emergency rental assistance awarded through the American...
