News from June 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Twenty-five individuals have been named in two separate, but related, Indictments for trafficking multiple drugs, including heroin, fentanyl, methamphetamine, cocaine and cocaine base, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today. The defendants were arrested today following a year-long investigation into drug trafficking in Mercer and Lawrence Counties and beyond.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement regarding the Supreme Court’s decision in California v. Texas, which rejected Republican efforts to overturn the entire Affordable Care Act (ACA)...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Jaime Williams, 34, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 63 months in federal prison for unlawfully possessing a loaded firearm as a convicted felon. Williams pleaded guilty to this charge on March 17, 2021.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: GULF BREEZE, Fla. -- Gulf Islands National Seashore will close the Fort Pickens Area beginning June 18, due to severe weather approaching the Northwest Florida area.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: Morristown, NJ - Beginning Friday, July 2, 2021, Morristown National Historical Park (NHP) will reopen with limited occupancy levels and one-way visitor traffic flow its Jockey Hollow Visitor Center, Ford Mansion, and Washington's Headquarters Museum.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Democrats, led by Trade Subcommittee Chairman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), introduced two bills to reform U.S. trade policies in a manner that delivers for workers, businesses, and the country’s most economically vulnerable trading partners. The pieces of legislation...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Rep. Ro Khanna, Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Environment, held a hearing to examine how Congress can bring jobs and justice to Forgotten America.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House Committee on Ways and Means will hear testimony from Secretary Yellen on President Biden’s budget request, which includes crippling tax hikes on America’s working families and predicts slow economic growth for the next decade.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis Holmes announced that a Todd County, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: GAITHERSBURG, Md. - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced a new competition for awards to support industry-driven consortia in developing technology roadmaps that will address high-priority research challenges to grow the advanced manufacturing sector in the U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: One man has been sentenced in the Southern District of Georgia to federal prison and others have admitted guilt in U.S. District Court on separate charges involving drugs and firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: HONOLULU - United States District Judge Derrick K. Watson sentenced Justin K. Wilcox, aka Justin Kaanoi, aka Ali’i, 39, of Kailua, Hawaii, today to concurrent imprisonment terms of 295 months and 240 months for his roles in conspiracies to distribute methamphetamine and cocaine and commit money laundering, ...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nev. - The Lake Mead National Recreation Area launch ramp at South Cove is closed until further notice.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: Biden’s Global Tax Surrender Puts Foreign Companies, Workers Ahead of Americans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Yesterday, a Superseding Indictment was unsealed charging CHANCE ALAN WILSON, 36, of McAlester, and DEANNA DANNETT WILSON, 55, of Wayne, Oklahoma, with conspiracy to possess methamphetamine with intent to distribute and conspiracy to launder drug proceeds, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-An Oregon man pleaded guilty today after fraudulently converting to personal use loans intended to help small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A former Enforcer for the New Bedford Chapter of the Massachusetts Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (Latin Kings) was sentenced today on drug charges.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: U.S. Virgin Islands - Last week, FEMA, VITEMA, VING and a variety of GVI agencies gathered in-person at the V.I. National Guard’s Lt. Col. Lionel A. Jackson Armory, Estate Bethlehem Compound on St. Croix and VITEMA’s Emergency Operations Center in St. Thomas, as well as virtually, for a Response Capstone Event which included five days of workshops focused on improving the joint response to potential tropical storms impacting the territory this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 18 months imprisonment, followed by three (3) years supervised release, on her conviction related to a charge of bank robbery, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Jaime Williams, 34, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 63 months in federal prison for unlawfully possessing a loaded firearm as a convicted felon. Williams pleaded guilty to this charge on March 17, 2021.
