News from June 2021
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Uzbekistan. During the review period, the government made significant progress by publishing audits that covered the entire annual executed budget and contained substantive findings and recommendations. The government made its executive budget proposal, enacted budget,...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
News Release: DENTON, Texas - Texas homeowners and renters in Kerr, Lamar and Shackelford who suffered damage from the February winter storm may now apply for disaster assistance with FEMA. If you applied with FEMA prior to the counties being added, you do not need to reapply.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Sumo Dukulah, 47, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged by Indictment on the charge of procurement of citizenship by false statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Pacific Beach resident Maya Kol was sentenced in federal court today to 15 years in prison for selling fentanyl powder that caused the death of one man and sent another to the hospital over Labor Day weekend in September 2018. Two other men-including the source of Kol’s fentanyl-also fatally overdosed that weekend from the same batch of fentanyl powder, which was misrepresented as cocaine when it was sold to users, including the victims.
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Liberia. During the review period, the government did not make its budget documents, including the executive budget proposal, enacted budget, and end of year report, publicly available in a reasonable period of time. Information on debt obligations, with the exception...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Raimonte Gordon Gaston, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has admitted to a drug charge, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
News Release: TAMPA, Fla -Jorge Ramirez (41, Clearwater, Fla.) was sentenced to 15 years and 8 months in prison for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine, heroin, and cocaine. Ramirez had pleaded guilty on Aug. 25, 2020.
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Zimbabwe. During the review period, the government made its executive budget proposal and end-of-year report, but not its enacted budget, publicly available online within a reasonable period of time. Information on some debt obligations was publicly available, but...
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Ukraine. During the review period, the government made its budget and information on debt obligations widely and easily accessible to the general public, including online. Budget documents provided a substantially complete picture of the government’s planned expenditures...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
Release: Washington - The daily export sales announcement issued today, June 25, contained an error. The sale of 122,200 metric tons of soybean meal for delivery to Mexico should have been announced as 112,200 metric tons. The corrected announcement is as follows.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
News Release: Sitka National Historical Park will host a public presentation on the Cultural Landscape Report for the Russian Bishop’s House on July 28, 2021. The presentation will include findings from new historical research as well as recommendations for future treatments of the landscape. You are invited to attend in person or virtually.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Jan Sharp announced that Drake L. Banks, Sr., age 30, of St. Louis, Missouri, was sentenced today to a 48-month term of imprisonment, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release, following his conviction for being an unlawful user of controlled substances in possession of a firearm. There is no parole in the federal system. Chief United States District Judge John M. Gerrard presided over this case, including the trial and sentencing.
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Bangladesh. During the review period, the government made its executive budget proposal and a summary enacted budget widely and easily accessible to the general public, including online. While, the Ministry of Finance has not updated its website with year-end budget execution reports since...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - A man has been charged in federal court with carjacking and murdering a rideshare driver in Chicago earlier this year.
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
Release: On behalf of the Government of the United States of America, I congratulate the people of Madagascar on the occasion of your Independence Day.
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Rwanda. During the review period, the government’s executive budget proposal, enacted budget, and end-of-year report were widely and easily accessible online to the general public within a reasonable period of time. Information on public debt obligations and publicly...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- FEMA announced federal emergency aid has been made available to the state of Florida to supplement state and local recovery efforts to the emergency conditions resulting from the Surfside Building Collapse beginning on June 24, 2021 and continuing.
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
Release: We are appalled and deeply saddened to learn about the horrific killings of three Doctors Without Borders staff members in Ethiopia’s Tigray region today. Attacks on humanitarian workers are indefensible and must end immediately. We call for an independent investigation and for the perpetrators to be...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Connecticut Attorney General William Tong, today announced that CONNECTICUT ADDICTION MEDICINE, LLC, and its owners DR. JAY BENSON and DR. MAHBOOB ASLAM, have entered into a civil settlement agreement with the federal and state governments in which they will pay $1,002,481 to resolve allegations that they caused overpayments to be paid by the Medicare and Medicaid Programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been charged by criminal complaint with possessing a mixture of fentanyl and a stolen firearm, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
