News from June 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2021
News Release: EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - Ricardo D. Minor, 40, of Cahokia, Illinois, will be spending 15 years in.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Nafez Hutchings, 22, of Upper Darby, PA, entered a plea of guilty before United States District Court Judge Anita Brody to an Indictment charging 12 counts of providing false information to a federal firearms licensee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Sean P. Costello of the Southern District of Alabama announced that United States District Judge Jeffrey Beaverstock sentenced defendant Hannibal Moore, 37, to 80 months imprisonment after a federal jury found him guilty at trial in December 2020 on a charge of being a felon in...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS -U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced additional guilty pleas related to a test score-fixing scheme at a United States Coast Guard exam center, bringing the total number of defendants convicted in this matter to 26.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2021
News Release: BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK - Nine defendants were arrested and charged with federal drug conspiracy and drug possession charges, conspiracy to commit money laundering and federal firearms offenses, announced Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon, Kevin M. Kelly, Special Agent in Charge, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Buffalo, New York Field Office, and Acting New York State Police Superintendent Kevin P. Bruen.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that GANGADAI RAMPERSAUD AZIM, a/k/a “Julie Azim," pled guilty today to a more than decade-long conspiracy to commit bank fraud, defrauding her employer, a Manhattan-based bank, by misappropriating approximately $1.7 million. AZIM pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2021
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A Port Arthur man has pleaded guilty to a federal firearms violation in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei today.
By State Newswire | Jun 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), ranking member and chairman of the Senate Foreign relations Committee, last week introduced comprehensive global health legislation entitled the International Pandemic Preparedness and COVID-19 Response Act (S. 2297) to improve global health and pandemic preparedness and enhance COVID-19 response efforts.
By State Newswire | Jun 28, 2021
Release: On behalf of the Government of the United States of America, I offer congratulations to the people of Seychelles on the 45th anniversary of their independence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston woman pleaded guilty today to distributing methamphetamine while on supervised release for a previous federal conviction.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 28, 2021
News Release: MOOSE, WY- A new, environmentally friendly refuse truck fueled by compressed natural gas is rolling through Grand Teton National Park. The park recently purchased the alternative fuel truck through a grant and it contributes to the park and community’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) announced Randy Moore as the new USFS chief. Former Forest Service Chief Vicki Christiansen will retire at the end of Julyafter more than 40 years as a professional forester, wildland firefighterand land manager. House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) issued the following statement in response.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 28, 2021
News Release: By: U.S. Senator John Barrasso June 28, 2021 Newsweek As Rahm Emanuel, President Barack Obama's chief of staff, famously quipped, "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste." President Joe Biden has taken that advice to heart. He's used the COVID-19 crisis as an excuse to spend trillions of ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2021
News Release: A Grand Jury in the Northern District of Oklahoma has charged a former dependent of an United States Armed Forces member with two counts of receipt and distribution of an obscene visual presentation of sexual abuse of a minor child under the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act (MEJA), announced Acting U.S. Attorney Clinton J. Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2021
News Release: Philadelphia, PA - Members of the U.S. Marshals Eastern Pennsylvania Violent Crimes Fugitive Task Force, arrested Aaron Sims, 27, in relation to a fatal January 2020 accident which occurred on Philadelphia’s Vine Street Expressway. After toxicology reports determined THC in Aaron Sims system and a blood-alcohol...
By State Newswire | Jun 28, 2021
Release: Today, the United States is designating Ousmane Illiassou Djibo - also known as Petit Chapori - as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) under section 1(a)(ii)(B) of Executive Order (E.O.) 13224.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 28, 2021
News Release: Pecos, NM: Join Jody Folwell of Santa Clara Pueblo on July 10th and 11th for a demonstration of her approach to creating contemporary pottery. Jody is one of the most renowned clay-workers. "I do not think of my work as pottery," she admits. "I think of each piece as an artwork that has something to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Sean P. Costello of the Southern District of Alabama announced that United States District Judge Jeffrey Beaverstock sentenced defendant Hannibal Moore, 37, to 80 months imprisonment after a federal jury found him guilty at trial in December 2020 on a charge of being a felon in ...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 28, 2021
News Release: In total, the draft bill includes $43.4 billion in regular appropriations, an increase of $7.3 billion - 20.2 percent - above 2021. There is also an additional $2.45 billion of funding for fire suppression. The legislation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced on June 21, 2021, that TAURUS RUSSELL, a/k/a “Scrappy," age 44, a resident of New Orleans, plead guilty to a three-count Superseding Bill of Information. In Count 1, RUSSELL is charged with conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent...
