News from June 2021
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today released new data from the fifth phase of the Small Business Pulse Survey (SBPS). Data collection began May 17. Results will be released weekly May 27 to July 22. The SBPS includes questions on small business operations and finances, requests and receipt of assistance, COVID-19 vaccinations and testing, measures of overall well-being, and expectations for recovery.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
Release: Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, delivered the following remarks at the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Subcommittee's markup of its fiscal year 2022 bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A Reno man today pleaded guilty to damaging the Bruce R. Thompson Federal Courthouse in the late evening of May 30, 2020, following a protest relating to the May 25, 2020 death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Morris County, New Jersey, man today admitted conspiring to distribute and possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine from his residence, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Minnesota Department of Public Safety Homeland Security and Emergency Management division (DPS-HSEM) announced today that $10 million in federal funding has been made available to the Minnesota Department of Health for costs related to the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic under the federal disaster declaration of April 7, 2020.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is pleased to announce the commencement of Crew Member Self-Defense (CMSD) training in early July. The program was previously paused due to COVID-19 restrictions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Devonnte White, 29, of Huntersville, North Carolina, who was convicted of possessing with intent to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl, was sentenced to serve 121 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to fraudulently using another person’s Social Security number.
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
Release: MS QUINVILLE: Mr. Secretary, here and virtually, you have the community of mighty Mission Germany.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Morris County man and a New York man today admitted their roles in defrauding a union-run health benefit fund of more than $4 million in connection with running unauthorized health and wellness events where thousands of medically unnecessary tests were performed on union members, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
Release: June 24, 2021 - Biotechnology Regulatory Services (BRS) recently updated the Plant-Trait-Mechanism of Action (PTMOA) table available on the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) website at: USDA APHIS | The Plant-Trait-Mechanism of Action (MOA).
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR), Finance Committee Member Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), House Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Chairman John B. Larson (D-CT) and Ways and Means Committee Member Vern Buchanan (R-FL) introduced the Know Your Social...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: Today, the House sent S.J. Res. 13 to President Biden’s desk, rolling back an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) conciliation rule that provides transparency and fairness for victims of discrimination and bars the EEOC from reissuing any similar rule in the future.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that MICHAEL YUSKO, III, age 46, a resident of New Orleans, was charged yesterday in a bill of information with operating an unlicensed money transmitting business, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1960.
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
Release: Senior Bureau Official for the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kin Moy met on June 24 with senior officials from the East Asia Summit (EAS) nations and Deputy Secretary General of ASEAN for Political-Security Community Michael Tene during the East Asia Summit (EAS) Senior Officials’ Meeting.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Kentucky man was sentenced in federal court to life in prison without parole in connection with his racially motivated murder of two Black patrons at a Kroger grocery store, and his attempted murder of a third in Jeffersontown, Kentucky.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Glenn Edward Davis, Jr. (35, Ocala) has pleaded guilty to two counts of possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon and two counts of possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine. Davis faces a minimum mandatory sentence of 5 years, and up to 40 years, in federal prison on each of the drug counts, and up to 10 years’ imprisonment on each of the firearm charges.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: Good morning. Chairman Wyden, Ranking Member Crapo, and members of the Committee, I am very pleased to join you today in support of the nomination of Dr. Melanie Egorin as the Assistant Secretary of Legislation at the Department of Health and Human Services.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on June 23, 2021, Charles Gibson, Jr., age 42, of the Bronx, New York, was sentenced to 120 months’ imprisonment and five years of supervised release, by United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion, for conspiring to distribute heroin, crack cocaine, and fentanyl.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: Bighorn Canyon is again offering a guided kayak program this year on Bighorn Lake.Programs will be held on both ends of the lake and cover proper paddlingtechniques, self-recovery of a capsized kayak, general safety precautions, and fun facts aboutBighorn Canyon presented by park rangers.
