News from June 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - A federal jury has found Andrew Christian Hammock (48, Boca Raton) guilty of attempting to entice a 14-year-old girl to engage in sexual activity and produce visual depictions of herself engaging in sexually explicit conduct. Hammock faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 10 years, and up to life, in federal prison and a potential life term of supervised release. His sentencing hearing is set for Sept. 20, 2021.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. -The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program recently awarded funding to two small businesses to develop non-contact, inexpensive machine learning training and classification technologies. Integrated machine learning platforms can significantly reduce time, redundancy, cost, and improve the accuracy in detecting threats such as explosives, chemical agents, and narcotics.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - U.S. District Court Judge Aida Delgado-Colón sentenced Eliezer Rosario-Ramos to 23 years in prison for the carjacking of a 77-year-old woman, announced W. Stephen Muldrow, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. Co-defendant Orlando Miguel Martínez-Ramos was previously sentenced to 18 years in prison.
By John Kelly | Jun 25, 2021
The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement released the results of its investigation of the Oct. 28, 2020 incident when the Transocean Drillship Deepwater Asgard sustained major damage to various operational components while evacuating from an area impacted by Hurricane Zeta.
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Pakistan. During the review period, the government made its enacted budget and end-of-year report widely and easily accessible to the general public, including online. It did not publish its executive budget proposal in a reasonable period of time. While the government...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
News Release: BANGOR, Maine: An Augusta resident was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Bangor for a series of robberies in 2019, Acting U.S. Attorney Donald E. Clark announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
News Release: Jensen’s scheme led to the credit union’s insolvency.
By John Kelly | Jun 25, 2021
United States Geological Survey (USGS) scientists have gained more information on how hurricanes can gain strength.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
Release: Summary: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is advising the public of our preliminary concurrence with the World Organisation for Animal Health’s (OIE) bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) risk designation for Bolivia and the United Kingdom’s zone of Jersey. The OIE recognizes this country and this zone as being of negligible risk for BSE.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -Hand sanitizers and surface disinfectants have proven essential in the COVID-19 era but are also a critical means to reduce or prevent the spread of many infectious diseases. This is one of the reasons the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is investing in a potentially fast, effective...
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Tanzania. During the review period, the government made its enacted budget and end-of-year report available online. It did not publish a full executive budget proposal. Some information on debt obligations was available online, but information on state-owned enterprise...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
News Release: Today, Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr., Chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued the following statement announcing the Committees will examine the approval and pricing of Biogen Inc.’s Alzheimer’s drug, Aduhelm...
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Lebanon. During the review period, the government published its executive budget proposal and enacted budget online but did not publish an end-of-year report. Information on debt obligations was publicly available online. However, information on state-owned enterprise...
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
Release: The United States is pleased to highlight that the Agreement to Prevent Unregulated High Seas Fisheries in the Central Arctic Ocean will enter into force June 25, 2021. This is the first multilateral agreement of its kind to take a legally binding, precautionary approach to protect an area from commercial fishing before such fishing has begun.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
News Release: Supplied a Baltimore Drug Shop in the 400 Block of Robert Street; Co-Conspirator in Related Case Previously Sentenced to More than Six Years in Federal Prison.
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
Release: On behalf of the Government of the United States of America, I wish to extend best wishes to the people of the Republic of Mozambique as you mark the 46th anniversary of your country’s independence.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
Release: Congresswoman Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Chair of the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's markup of its fiscal year 2022 bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
News Release: ST. PAUL, Minn. - A Canadian man pleaded guilty today to possessing a firearm as an alien illegally or unlawfully in the United States, announced Acting U.S. Attorney W. Anders Folk.
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Sao Tome and Principe.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 25, 2021
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: On Saturday, July 10, at 2 pm, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park will present a special one-hour, ranger-led program exploring the unique horticulture practice of the Three Sisters. This program will take place at the Moccasin Bend National Archeological District located at approximately 200 Moccasin Bend Rd, Chattanooga, TN 37405. Special program signs will direct visitors to the program site.
