News published on Federal Newswire in June 2021

News from June 2021


News Release: A man who stole a semiautomatic firearm with a 16-round magazine from Fleet Farm in Cedar Falls, Iowa, and ran from the store was sentenced today to five years in federal prison.


News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - An AXIOS report today reveals that the new figure on unemployment fraud is an estimated $400 billion stolen - almost half of all pandemic unemployment spending. Ways and Means Republican Leader Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) said...


Americans Brace for a Long, Hot Summer of Rapidly Increasing Costs

News Release: Americans Brace for a Long, Hot Summer of Rapidly Increasing Costs.


Venice Man Sentenced To 15 Years In Federal Prison For Distributing, Receiving And Possessing Child Sexual Abuse Images And Videos

News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge James S. Moody has sentenced Travis Vance (36, Venice) to 15 years in federal prison for distributing, receiving, and possessing images and videos depicting children being sexually abused. Vance was also ordered to serve a 10-year term of supervised release, register as a sex offender, and forfeit the electronic devices that he had used to commit his offenses.


News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced that a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Michael Sloan, 26, of Cleveland, with explosive destruction of property.


Michigan Man Indicted for Sexual Abuse of a Minor

News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: A federal grand jury in Portland returned an indictment charging a Warren, Michigan man with sexual abuse of a minor, Acting U.S. Attorney Donald E. Clark announced.


Kidnapping Charges Added to Shasta Lake Restaurant Owners Charged with Forced Labor and Harboring of Aliens

News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment Thursday adding the charges of conspiracy to commit kidnapping and kidnapping to the previous charges of conspiracy to commit forced labor, forced labor, conspiracy to harbor aliens, and harboring aliens, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.


Explainer: President Biden’s Global Tax Hike is Not a Victory for America, but a Surrender

News Release: Explainer: President Biden’s Global Tax Hike is Not a Victory for America, but a Surrender.


Federal Grand Jury Indicts Three Defendants For Their Roles In String Of Credit Union Robberies

News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned two indictments charging three defendants for their roles in multiple credit union robberies and attempted robberies.


News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Chad A. Worthington, age 43, of Ellisburg, New York, pled guilty today in federal court in Syracuse to one felony count of failing to register and update his registration as a sex offender after it was discovered that he had an e-mail address that he had not disclosed to the New...


News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - The park hosted 483,159 recreation visits in May 2021. This is an 11% increase from May 2019 (434,385 recreation visits) and the park’s most visited May on record.


Secretary Blinken’s Call with Argentina Foreign Minister Solá

Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price...


News Release: Ten of the alleged drug dealers arrested in yesterday’s “Operation 50/50 Love" have been federally charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine and other drug crimes, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah.


News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Wayne Dale Epps, Jr. (36, Jacksonville) has pleaded guilty to using the internet to attempt to entice a 12-year-old child to engage in sexual activity. Epps faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years, and up to life, in federal prison and a potential life term of supervised release. Epps was arrested on Feb. 18, 2020, and remains in custody. His sentencing hearing has not yet been scheduled.


News Release: Approximately $75,000, two kilograms of cocaine and firearms seized following arrests.


Federal Grand Jury A Indictments Announced – June

News Release: Acting United States Attorney Clint Johnson today announced the results of the June 2021 Federal Grand Jury A.


News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis Holmes announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man convicted of Prohibited Person in Possession of a Firearm was sentenced on June 7, 2021, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.


Former University Financial Advisor Facing Federal Charges for Wire Fraud

News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A criminal complaint has been filed charging Randolph Stanley, age 42, of Clinton, Maryland, for the federal charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, in connection with a scheme to fraudulently obtain student aid.


News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Brian Ray, 34, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to distribution of butyryl fentanyl. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.


News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Browns Valley, Minnesota, man convicted of abusive sexual contact was sentenced on June 7, 2021, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.