News from July 2021
By State Newswire | Jul 26, 2021
Release: U.S. Special Envoy and Ambassador to Libya Richard Norland visited Tripoli, Libya July 26 where he met with interim Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dabaiba, attended a signing ceremony for a new 5G telecommunications contract between Libyan company Hatif and U.S. company Infinera, and held other meetings with...
By State Newswire | Jul 26, 2021
Release: The United States congratulates Fiame Naomi Mata’afa on her historic victory to become Samoa’s first female prime minister. We look forward to working with Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata’afa and Samoa’s new government. The United States thanks former Prime Minister Tuila’epa Sa’ilele Malielegaoi for his longstanding friendship.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2021
News Release: SAN DIEGO, CA - Jonathan Devon Price, aka “Lil’ Ty," a North Park street gang member previously convicted of Racketeering Conspiracy, was sentenced in federal court today by Senior U.S. District Court Judge John A. Houston to 142 months in prison for committing the new crime of sex trafficking of children, and 24 months in prison for violating the conditions of supervised release in his racketeering case.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2021
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - David Christopher Monroe, of Clarksburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 168 months of incarceration for a methamphetamine charge, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 26, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, Oversight and Reform Committee Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y.); Government Operations Subcommittee Ranking Member Jody Hice (R-Ga.) and Chairman Gerald E. Connolly (D-Va.); and National Security Subcommittee Ranking Member Glenn Grothman...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2021
News Release: Myrtle Beach, South Carolina --- Acting United States Attorney M. Rhett Dehart announced today that a joint team of dozens of federal, state, and local law enforcement officers, led by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), arrested six individuals who have been charged in federal court for their roles in an interstate drug trafficking organization that operated out of Myrtle Beach, Conway, Florence, and New York City.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 26, 2021
Release: Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee Chair Wasserman Schultz (D-FL-23) today delivered the following remarks to the House Rules Committee in support of an appropriate rule for the House to consider, a minibus of seven fiscal year 2022 appropriations bills.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Two residents of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and two individuals incarcerated at Pennsylvania State Correctional Institutions (SCIs), have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of shipping drugs into a prison and pandemic unemployment fraud, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2021
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A federal grand jury in Wichita indicted a Wichita man on 17 counts of Failure to Pay Over Payroll Taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2021
News Release: TRENTON, 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 Burlington County, New Jersey, man is expected to make his initial appearance today after being charged with trafficking over three kilograms of methamphetamine and illegally possessing unregistered firearms as a previously convicted felon.
By State Newswire | Jul 26, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: .
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Harshe Shende, age 57, of Hanover, Maryland, to 15 months in federal prison, followed by two years of supervised release, for willful failure to pay over employment taxes. Chief Judge Bredar also found that Shende failed to pay...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2021
News Release: Memphis, TN - Caery Gorman, 45, has been sentenced to 121 months in federal prison for distribution of methamphetamine and for being a convicted felon in possession of firearms. Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph C. Murphy Jr., announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2021
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 42-year-old resident of Covington, Georgia, has pleaded guilty in Laredo federal court to conspiracy to transport undocumented aliens, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2021
News Release: Omaha Man Charged with COVID Relief Program Related Bank Fraud.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 26, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - The House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure will hold a markup on Wednesday, July 28, at 11:00 a.m. EDT to consider the following measures...
By State Newswire | Jul 26, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: .
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2021
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Darian Leizear, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 15 months of incarceration for a firearms charge, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By State Newswire | Jul 25, 2021
Release: On behalf of the Government of the United States of America, I wish July 26th a joyous Independence Day to the Maldivian people.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2021
News Release: Seattle, WA - Earlier today, the Pacific Northwest Violent Offender Task Force (PNVOTF), led by the U.S. Marshals Service, arrested Guillermo Raya-Leon (age 26) for First Degree Murder in Salem, Oregon. Raya-Leon is alleged to have shot and killed a Clark County Sheriff’s Office Deputy on Friday in Vancouver, Washington.
