News from June 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: William Saiff III Committed Additional Wildlife Crimes While on Federal Probation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Two residents of Clairton and two residents of Pittsburgh have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal narcotic and firearm laws, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MARC LAWRENCE was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to 55 months in prison for securities fraud and wire fraud in connection with his participation in a scheme to perpetrate a Ponzi-like investment scheme...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
Release: Washington - In January 2021, President Biden released the National Strategy for the COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness. The plan is driven by science, data, and public health to improve the effectiveness of our nation’s fight against COVID-19 and to restore trust, accountability and a sense of common purpose in our response to the pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Westford man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to conspiring to commit bank fraud and possessing an unregistered firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: NEW BERN, N.C. - Cameron Hayes of Raleigh, was sentenced today to 108 months in prison for receipt of child pornography. On Sept. 16, 2020, Hayes pled guilty to the charge.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: Santa Fe, N.M. - On June 4, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) New Mexico handed off the keys for two fire engines to the Wild Horse Fire Department and the Animas Fire Department, both key cooperators in wildfire response. The transfers took place at the BLM Socorro Field Office and the Las Cruces District Office.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) announced its intent to issue a Funding Opportunity Announcement in summer 2021 to support open water research and development (R&D) at the PacWave South test site.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Grace F. Napolitano (D-CA) released the following statements after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Tuesday, June 8, 2021, Alexander Russaw, Jr., a 40-year-old man from Enterprise, Alabama, was sentenced to 37 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. In addition to his prison sentence, Russaw was ordered to serve three years of supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: Albuquerque, NM. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Rio Puerco Field Office is accepting comment on proposals to increase the standard amenity fee at Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument and establish an expanded amenity fee at Joe Skeen Campground in El Malpais National Conservation Area. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: Defendants Muse Muse, Mohamud Muse, and Mohamed Haji Conspired to Provide Material Support to ISIS.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: Officers Seized Six Firearms, Illegal Drugs, Nearly $180,000 in Cash.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: Acres: 70,066 acres. Cause: Under Investigation. Containment: 33%. Total personnel: 610. Start Date: Monday, June 1, 2021. Location: 12 mi SE of Globe, AZ; 7 mi NE of Dripping Springs, AZ. Fuels: Desert Brush, Oak, and grass. Crews reinforce firelines and catch spot fire to the west. Ko’ Ba Nagoni i’...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A federal jury convicted Chukwudi Michael Okwara, 40, of Charlotte, for his involvement in a Business Email Compromise (BEC) scheme that defrauded at least six companies of approximately $2 million. William T. Stetzer, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, announced today that Okwara had been convicted at trial of 27 counts of money laundering, false statements to banks, and aggravated identity theft.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ways and Means Republican Leader Kevin Brady (R-TX) opened today’s Ways and Means Committee Hearing highlighting the ways President Biden’s budget is a roadmap to sabotage America’s economic recovery and put Washington in control of Americans’ life-or-death medical decisions.
By State Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
Release: The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America and the United Arab Emirates.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A New Jersey man was found guilty by a federal jury in Boston on Friday, June 4, 2021 in connection with attempting to retrieve narcotics from two Stoughton storage units.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Anthony McCoy, a/k/a “Hard Times," age 36, of New Jersey, was sentenced on June 8, 2021, by United States District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani to 132 months’ imprisonment for drug trafficking.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT, Md. - The National Park Service (NPS) has tiered to an Environmental Assessment completed by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service for the environmental release of a biological control organism to suppress invasive Japanese knotweed.
