News from July 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Clayton man was sentenced yesterday to 123 months in prison for Possessing with the Intent to Distribute Cocaine Base (“Crack") and Cocaine, Possession of Firearms in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime, and Felon in Possession of Firearms. On Feb. 18, 2021, Gregory Tobaris Brantley pled guilty to the charges.
By State Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC -Tomorrow, July 29, 2021, at 10:30AM, House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX), Reps. August Pfluger (R-TX), Haley Stevens (D-MI), Tim Walberg (R-MI), and Bill Keating (D-MA) will hold a bipartisan press conference with members of the Reed and Whelan families as well as members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard has sentenced Gregory Thomas Garcia (35, Orange Park) to 16 years in federal prison for child sex trafficking. The court also ordered Garcia to forfeit a 2015 Ford Focus vehicle that he had used in committing the offense. After serving...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: Texas Man Sentenced for $24 Million COVID-19 Relief Fraud Scheme.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure today approved the Eliminating Barriers to Rural Internet Development Grant Eligibility (E-BRIDGE) Act, in addition to legislation that improves coordination of the development of advanced air mobility, improves the disaster damage assessment process...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers and House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-OH) released the following statement regarding their draft discussion bill to rein in Big Tech abuses of Section 230 protections.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader for Consumer Protection and Commerce Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) delivered opening remarks at today’s subcommittee hearing with the members of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today released the below statement on her intention to support proceeding to consideration of the bipartisan infrastructure legislation...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Isaiah Augustine Bob, 36, of Montezuma Creek, Utah, and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, appeared in federal court in Las Cruces, New Mexico, on July 27 for an initial appearance on an indictment charging him with second-degree murder in Indian Country.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: POCATELLO - Kevin Ralph Nixon, 54, of Idaho Falls, entered a guilty plea to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael M. Gonzalez, Jr., 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 Homeland Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
Release: Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Ryan (D-OH-13) today delivered the following remarks on the House Floor in support of, the Legislative Branch appropriations bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - An Eden Prairie woman was charged today with illegally straw purchasing 14 firearms, announced Acting U.S. Attorney W. Anders Folk.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks as prepared for delivery today at a Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee hearing titled, “Transforming the FTC: Legislation to Modernize Consumer Protection:"
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jakeel Irvin, 27, Rochester, NY, who was convicted of conspiring to distribute, and distributing, 40 grams or more of fentanyl, was sentenced to serve 71 months in prison by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: Arrington: Biden’s Unprecedented Spending and Taxes Will Cut Workers’ Wages and Devastate Family Farms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: In Proposed Plea Agreement Paul Giusti Acknowledges He Conspired to Bribe San Francisco Public Official.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Oregon Senator Ron Wyden today asked leading health insurance companies in Oregon to provide seniors who have Medicare Advantage (MA) plans with air conditioning units and air filtration units to improve their health during a record-breaking summer of heat and fires.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered remarks in today’s Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee hearing with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
By State Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
Release: The United States is taking action to promote accountability for entities and individuals that have perpetuated the suffering of the Syrian people. The United States is sanctioning eight Syrian prisons, five Assad regime officials in the institutions that run those facilities, two militia groups, and two militia leaders. These actions underscore the U.S. commitment to promote respect for human rights and accountability for abuse against Syrians.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 28, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers and House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-OH) released the following statement regarding their draft discussion bill to rein in Big Tech abuses of Section 230 protections.
