News from July 2021
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - As southeast Michigan survivors clean and repair damage to their homes caused by the severe storms and flooding that occurred June 25-26, 2021, FEMA has teamed up with the Gray & Son True Value Hardware in Detroit to provide free information, tips and literature on making homes and businesses stronger and safer.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: Before anybody ever heard of COVID-19, it was already far too difficult for Americans to save for a dignified retirement. According to the National Institute on Retirement Security, as of 2018, more than 100 million working-age Americans had no pension or any retirement assets.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Joshua Mendez, 40, of New Laguna, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Laguna Pueblo, pleaded guilty on July 22 to two counts of an indictment charging him with assault resulting in serious bodily injury and domestic assault by a habitual offender in Indian Country.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A Mexican National who jointly operated Tienda Mexicana González Bros., a small convenience store and market in Southeast Portland, was sentenced to federal prison today for using the business and its money transmission licenses to launder millions of dollars in drug proceeds on behalf of a Mexico-based drug trafficking organization operating in the Portland Metropolitan Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that David Carbonaro, 28, of Upper Darby, PA, was sentenced to twenty-two years and one month in prison, lifetime supervised release, and was ordered to pay $38,000 in restitution by United States District Court Judge Chad F. Kenney for numerous child exploitation offenses including abusing a three-year-old in order to produce pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: WaPo: Another Fact Check on Democrats’ False Claim About Tax Reform.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Brackenridge, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of armed bank robbery, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: Medford, Ore. - Bureau of Land Management officials have been working hard to re-open popular downhill biking and hiking trails at the Mountain of the Rogue recreation area after damage from the North River Road Fire, which started June 19.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: Robotic equipment expenditures totaled $7,524 million and accounted for 0.7% of total equipment expenditures in 2019, according to new Annual Capital Expenditures Survey (ACES) estimates released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. ACES estimates by kind of business add detail to the national-level estimates of investment in machinery and equipment.
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: SCRANTON -The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on July 27, 2021, Modest Moreno, age 31, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury on drug trafficking and firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: Norfolk, VA - A large-scale multi-agency law enforcement operation led by the Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force, focused on wanted gang members and firearms related offenders, has concluded. The 60-day operation, which took place during June and July resulted in dozens of arrests and firearms seized across Hampton Roads.
By State Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
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, Rob Portman (R-Ohio), and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) today applauded committee passage of the International Pandemic Preparedness and COVID-19 Response Act (S. 2297), comprehensive legislation to improve global health and pandemic preparedness and enhance COVID-19 response efforts.
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: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening statement, as prepared, during a Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law hearing on "Oversight of the Bankruptcy Code, Part 1: Confronting Abuses of the Chapter 11 System...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Kendu Woodard, of Keyser, West Virginia, was sentenced this week to 24 months of incarceration for a firearms charge, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.--U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, delivered the following remarks at a hearing entitled, “Building on Bipartisan Retirement Legislation: How Can Congress Help?".
By DOL Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Today, the Senate voted to confirm Gwynne Wilcox by a vote of 52-47 and David Prouty by a vote of 53-46 to serve as Members of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). In remarks on the Senate floor, Senator Patty Murray, Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), reiterated her strong support for Ms. Wilcox’s and Mr. Prouty’s nominations, highlighting their long track records as champions for workers.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL PARK: Two firefighters from The Great Lakes Fire Management Zone stationed at Indiana Dunes National Park are currently assisting Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado with wildfires in the park. Three personnel have recently returned.
