News from June 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2021
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Zipporan Carmel Peters (32, Jacksonville) has pleaded guilty to aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to commit bank fraud. Peters faces up to 30 years in federal prison on the conspiracy to commit bank fraud charge, a 2-year mandatory minimum term of imprisonment on the aggravated identity theft charge, and payment of restitution to the victims she and her co-defendant, Charles Cornelius Smith, defrauded. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By State Newswire | Jun 4, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Rob Portman (R-OH), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, announced they have introduced bipartisan legislation to help protect communities across the country from the possible consequences of a...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 4, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today hailed the Biden administration’s announcement that it will correct and update five regulations pertaining to the Endangered Species Act (ESA) weakened during the Trump era to help polluters. Grijalva urged the administration to continue updating federal standards for protecting biodiversity with the full knowledge that climate change is advancing and time for meaningful action is short.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2021
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on June 3, 2021, William Daquan Battle, age 28, of East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani to 18 months’ imprisonment followed by a 2-year term of supervised release, for passing counterfeit United States currency on numerous occasions.
By Press release submission | Jun 4, 2021
The Biden-Harris Administration submitted to Congress the President’s Budget for Fiscal Year 2022. The request for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, is $2.7 billion, $609.9 million over the FY 2021 enacted level.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - Jelanie Reeves, 26, of St. Louis, Missouri, pleaded guilty to one count of making false and fictitious statement in order to acquire firearms. Reeves appeared, today, before United States District Court Judge Rodney W. Sippel.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2021
News Release: Shots He Fired Hit a Man, an Apartment, and a Car.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 4, 2021
News Release: ARCATA, Calif. - Facilities and beach access managed by the Bureau of Land Management at the Mike Thompson Wildlife Area, South Spit Humboldt Bay, will be temporarily closed for public safety while repairs are underway on the south jetty. The project, being undertaken by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, is expected to continue into October 2021.
By State Newswire | Jun 4, 2021
Release: The United States is committed to addressing the challenges of systemic racism both at home and abroad, including the structures, policies, laws, and practices that sustain racial injustices. Any pledge to advance human rights around the world must begin with a pledge to advance human rights at home.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2021
News Release: DALLAS - An oncologist has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for running a pill mill, announced by the DEA Dallas Field Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2021
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Angela Milton, 38, of Sacramento, pleaded guilty today to aiding and assisting in the preparation and presentation of false and fraudulent tax returns, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Press release submission | Jun 4, 2021
In celebration of National Trails Day on June 5, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland today announced 10 new national recreation trails in eight states, adding more than 160 miles to the National Trails System.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 4, 2021
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - The State of North Carolina and FEMA have approved $1,604,562 to reimburse the state’s Department of Transportation for the repair of roads in Sampson County damaged by Hurricane Florence in 2018.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 4, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA, PA - FEMA Corps team Gulf 4 launched their first service mission in Philadelphia on April 24, 2021 in support of the City’s Vaccination Mission. The team has been providing assistance at the Center City Vaccination Center (CCVC) located at the Pennsylvania Convention Center (PCC). The CCVC...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2021
News Release: The brother of capital murder suspect Yaser Said has been sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for helping the “10 Most Wanted" suspect evade capture for more than 12 years, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 4, 2021
News Release: PALM SPRINGS, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Palm Springs-South Coast Field Office proposes to offer mineral materials for competitive sale. The subsurface 119-acre site is located approximately four miles north of the community of Lakeside in San Diego County.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 4, 2021
News Release: Washington - Researchers at the USDA's Agricultural Research Service and US Biologic, Inc., have developed an oral solution to an antibiotic alternative that fights against poultry coccidiosis, which costs the poultry industry $3.5B in annual losses worldwide.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 4, 2021
News Release: BARTLETT COVE, AK - Trenching begins this week on a project that will allow Glacier Bay National Park to operate on clean, renewable power by the end of 2021. Over 20 years in the making, this project - known as the “intertie" - will make hydro the primary source of power for the park by connecting the...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo today in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $470,000 grant to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to develop a waterfront oceanographic research infrastructure resiliency plan that will help keep the world-renowned research, exploration, and education institution operational in the event of future storms.
