News from July 2021
By DOE Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: U.S. energy companies have been using the Cybersecurity Capability Maturity Model (C2M2) to evaluate their cybersecurity capabilities and optimize their security investments for nearly a decade. During that time, the U.S. energy infrastructure has seen rapid changes in the technology and threat landscape. These changes prompted energy sector partners and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to validate and update the C2M2.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Thomas Sczerbaniewicz, age 53, of Syracuse, was sentenced today to serve 120 months (ten years) in federal prison for possessing child pornography. The announcement was made by Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon and Janeen DiGuiseppi, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
By State Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
Release: QUESTION: All right. Joining us now, a very special guest, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Thank you very much for speaking with us here on CNN-News18. You’ve just come off a meeting with your counterpart, Foreign Minister Jaishankar. A large part of your conversation was around the Quad. Can you tell us what is the U.S.’s vision of the Quad? And you also said right after the meeting that you don’t see it as a military alliance. Can you elaborate on that?
By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: LAS VEGAS - The Bureau of Land Management Southern Nevada District Office asks motorists to be careful of wild horses and burros along State Route 160 between Pahrump and Johnnie. Recent storms have damaged several miles of fencing in the area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A 20-year-old Tiverton man is facing charges in federal court in Providence on allegations that he allegedly enticed and transported a 13-year-old from Pennsylvania to Tiverton with the intent to engage in sexual activity.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and United States Representatives Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y.) announced legislation to prohibit the use of non-consensual, non-debtor releases that have helped entities and individuals, like members of the Sackler family, escape accountability for wrongdoing through bankruptcy proceedings.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Two St. Joseph, Missouri, men have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute heroin and for illegally possessing firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: Former Marine and Self-Proclaimed Proud Boy Charged at Police with Large Stick.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Wilkinsburg, PA, has been sentenced in federal court to five years’ imprisonment on his conviction for violating the federal narcotics laws, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and David Sundberg, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford returned an indictment yesterday charging Bridgeport City Council member MICHAEL DEFILIPPO, 35, with multiple election crimes related to DeFilippo’s run for City Council in 2017 and 2018.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-La.), Committee on Financial Services Ranking Member Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), and Committee on Small Business Ranking Member...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: POCATELLO, Idaho - Kevin Ralph Nixon, 54, of Idaho Falls, entered a guilty plea to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, today. Nixon was originally indicted by a federal grand jury on Aug. 27, 2019. Sentencing is set for November 8, 2021, before Chief U.S. District Judge David C. Nye at the federal courthouse in Pocatello.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Susan A. Gibson and Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Rachael A. Honig announced a Suffolk County, New York man admitted today to illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has published a Request for Information seeking information and public input as the agency considers updates to its mechanical power presses standard.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
Release: House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) today delivered the following remarks on the House Floor in support of, the Legislative Branch appropriations bill.
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 DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: BANGOR, Maine-A Lebanon, Maine man was sentenced today in federal court for distributing fentanyl, Acting U.S. Attorney Donald E. Clark announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) joined CNBC’s Squawk Box this morning to discuss the fight against Democrats’ push for radical tax hikes and multi-trillion spending plan that will crush workers, small businesses, and America’s middle-class families.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Eleven people have been arrested following their indictments on federal charges stemming from an investigation into a drug trafficking network based in Southeast Washington that sold cocaine, crack cocaine, Fentanyl, PCP, and other drugs.
By State Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
Release: Protests in Iran that began with a water shortage - owing to drought and governmental mismanagement and neglect - in the Khuzestan province have now spread across various cities including Tehran, Karaj and Tabriz. The Iranian people are now putting a spotlight not only on their unmet needs, but also their unfulfilled aspirations for respect for human rights - rights to which individuals the world over are entitled.
