News from July 2021
By State Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today gave the following opening remarks at a full committee nomination hearing for the Honorable Donald Lu, nominee to be assistant secretary of State for South Asian affairs, Ms. Jessica Lewis, ...
By State Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
Release: The Office of Global Partnerships at the U.S. Department of State, Concordia, and the University of Virginia Darden School of Business Institute for Business in Society announce the finalists for the 2021 P3 Impact Award. The Award recognizes exemplary public-private partnerships (P3s) that provide solutions...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - On Tuesday, July 27, 2021, a jury in federal court convicted two men of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and attempt to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Jack P. Staton, Acting Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON - One of the 15 individuals charged as part of the long-term investigation dubbed the “Woo Boyz" pleaded guilty to a federal gun crime. Memphis Ross, 20, of Charleston, pleaded guilty to possession of a fully automatic machine gun that was not registered to him.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: ADVISORY: Rep. Brady in Conversation with AEI on Combatting COVID-19 Unemployment Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: BANGOR, Maine: A Winslow man was sentenced today in federal court for Social Security fraud, health care fraud and theft of government money, Acting U.S. Attorney Donald E. Clark announced.
By State Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), ranking member and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today were joined by Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), ranking member of the subcommittee overseeing the Western Hemisphere, and Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: Rock Island, Ill. - A Silvis, Ill., man, Michael Robert McKinney, 23, has been sentenced to 144 months in prison, to be followed by 20 years of supervised release, for attempted enticement of a minor.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
Release: State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Subcommittee Chairwoman Barbara Lee (D-CA-13) today delivered the following remarks on the House Floor in support of, the State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs appropriations bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. -David C. Weiss, U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced today that a Superseding Indictment was recently unsealed charging 14 individuals with conspiring to distribute heroin and fentanyl and other related offenses. Four of those individuals, Jamar Jackson, Denise Brown, Harley Douglas, and Nicole Jackson, had been previously charged. The Superseding Indictment also charges Jamar Jackson with conspiring to launder money internationally.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: A Coppell businessman was sentenced today to more than 11 years in prison for wire-fraud and money-laundering offenses in connection with his fraudulent scheme to obtain approximately $24.8 million in forgivable Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah and Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A Polite Jr. of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. has sentenced John Robert Cooney (54, Orlando) to 12 years in federal prison for receiving images of children being sexually abused using an online social media application (app). The court also ordered Cooney to register as a sex offender and forfeit the electronic devices that he used to commit this offense.
By State Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
Release: The United States condemns the recent escalation of violence along the international border between Armenia and Azerbaijan. We call on Armenia and Azerbaijan to uphold their ceasefire commitments by taking immediate steps to de-escalate the situation.
By State Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) recently completed a study that analyzed serum samples from free-ranging white-tailed deer for antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19). Results of the study indicate that certain white-tailed deer ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, the Subcommittee on Government Operations held its biannual hearing on the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA). In his opening statement, Subcommittee Ranking Member Jody Hice (R-Ga.) emphasized the need to decipher whether the FITARA Scorecard and IT dashboard...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - David Jonathan Weston, of Westminster, Maryland, was sentenced this week to 168 months of incarceration for a child pornography charge, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Parkersburg man pleaded guilty today to federal firearm and drug charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - A Maple Grove man pleaded guilty today to fraudulently applying for $9,619,046.46 from the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program, of which he fraudulently obtained and misappropriated more than $1.7 million, announced Acting U.S. Attorney W. Anders Folk.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: DAVENPORT, IOWA - A La Porte City man, Austin Michael Kiler, was sentenced today by United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey to 21 months in prison for Cyberstalking. Kiler was ordered to serve two years of supervised release to follow his prison term, as well as pay $ 100 to the Crime Victims’ Fund. On March 26, 2021, Kiler was found guilty following a jury trial.
