News from June 2021
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, led by Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader Morgan Griffith (R-VA), sent a letter to the Comptroller General of the U.S. Gene Dodaro requesting a Government Accountability Office (GAO) technology assessment to prevent future pandemics and identify its origins.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, sent letters to Colonial Pipeline Company and CNA Financial Corporation requesting documents regarding their decisions to pay ransoms following recent ransomware attacks.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $21.2 million grant to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands to support growth of the region’s tourism economy. This EDA grant is expected to create 480 jobs.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: MEEKER, Colo. - An update from the Fire managers from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Northwest District Fire and Aviation and the White River Field Office indicate that as of 1 p.m., approximately 30 acres have been allowed to burn on the Middle Fire near County Road 5 on Barnes Ridge approximately 20 miles SSW of the town of Meeker.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A Fairview, Oregon, man is facing federal charges for causing thousands of dollars in damage to federal property, including the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Portland Field Office, during recent riots in Portland.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Box Elder man who admitted assaulting a woman, causing serious injuries, on the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation, was sentenced on Wednesday to 21 months in prison and to three years of supervised release, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Joshua Levine, 24, of Lancaster, NY, who was convicted of conspiring to distribute heroin and fentanyl, was sentenced to serve 120 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: MISSOULA - A California man who admitted trafficking methamphetamine after Flathead County law enforcement officers seized a package containing three pounds of the drug was sentenced today to five years in prison and to five years of supervised release, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: Fraud included over 220 Identity Theft Victims, More Than $1 Million in Fraudulently Obtained Supplemental Nutrition Assistant Program Benefits, Six Fraudulent Car Loans, and an Attempted Fraudulent COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan Application.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, led by Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader Morgan Griffith (R-VA), sent a letter to the Comptroller General of the U.S. Gene Dodaro requesting a Government Accountability Office (GAO) technology assessment to prevent future pandemics and identify its origins.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Richard Allen Clark, 55, of Lenoir, N.C., appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge David C. Keesler today and pleaded guilty to federal charges for embezzling more than $1 million from his former employer, announced William T. Stetzer, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC- The list of groups coming out in support of the Water Quality Protection and Job Creation Act of 2021 (H.R. 1915) continues to grow. The bill, introduced in March by Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Chair of the Subcommittee on Water...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 2, 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 2, 2021
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Matthew Logan Lipscomb, of Kerens, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 76 months of incarceration for drug charges, Acting U.S. Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2021
News Release: A Dallas man pleaded guilty Wednesday afternoon to federal hate crime charges, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah and Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2021
News Release: DEL RIO - U.S. District Judge Alia Moses sentenced 40-year-old Ramon Antonio Yanez-Gonzalez, aka “Junior," of Guadalajara, Mexico to 235 months in federal prison today for distributing about 21 kilograms of methamphetamine and money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven returned an indictment yesterday charging CHRISTOPHER M. LISCIO, 38, of Wallingford, with oxycodone and cocaine trafficking offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2021
News Release: ST. PAUL, Minn. - A Wayzata man was sentenced today to 37 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiring to commit arson of a Minneapolis bank.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 2, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued this statement following the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s (CPSC) decision to pass a rule banning infant inclined sleep products ahead of next week’s Committee hearing on the grave flaws in the U.S. consumer product safety system...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 2, 2021
News Release: CASPER, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management Casper Field Office and the National Historic Trails Interpretive Center are pleased to announce the first annual Artist in Residence for the week of June 22 through June 26, 2021.
