News from June 2021
By Karen Kidd | Jun 24, 2021
Federal land in Ewa Beach recently transferred to the Hawaiian Home Lands Trust to settle a longstanding $16.9 million debt could potentially provide up to 400 homesteads for Native Hawaiian families, according to a recent announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 53-year-old Laredoan has been ordered to federal prison after he admitted to wire fraud and extortion under color of official right, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
Release: Today, the Department of Homeland Security, Department of Commerce, and Department of Labor announced measures to address the People’s Republic of China’s ongoing human rights abuses and use of forced labor in Xinjiang. We will continue to work with our partners and allies to promote accountability for...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $588,000 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Maryland Department of Commerce, Baltimore, Maryland, to support the growth and resiliency of coronavirus disrupted businesses by expanding...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment today against former Sacramento resident, William A. Sassman, 53, now residing in Orange County, charging him with knowingly engaging in monetary transactions with criminally derived property, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By John Kelly | Jun 24, 2021
A mass bird fatality event is happening in the Washington, D.C. area and the signs include puffy eyes along with a discharge that leaves the birds blind.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today against Steven Domingo, 37, of Stockton, charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
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, Robert Andrewsh, Jr., age 26, of Dunmore, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 96 months’ imprisonment and five years of supervised release, by United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion, for methamphetamine trafficking.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 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 $1.9 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Youngstown Edison Incubator Corporation (Youngstown Business Incubator), Youngstown, Ohio, to...
By John Kelly | Jun 24, 2021
Developers are cancelling the Keystone XL Pipeline months after U.S. President Joe Biden revoked their permit.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has directed the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to aid recovery efforts for residents, farmers and ranchers affected by the devastation across the Southeast caused by Tropical Storm Claudette. USDA staff in regional, state, and county offices are ready to respond and are providing a variety of program flexibilities and other assistance to affected communities and agricultural producers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening remarks, as prepared, during the markup of H.R. 3816, the American Innovation and Choice Online Act...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ways and Means Republicans outlined the opportunities for bipartisan reforms in a Social Security Subcommittee Hearing. There, the members offered meaningful solutions to strengthen Social Security, treat our public servants fairly, incentivize work, and protect our most vulnerable.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: Defendant Threw Objects at Police, Repeatedly Struck them with a Baton, and Posted Activity to Instagram.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: Overall damage to banks, merchants, card companies and consumers estimated at more than $1 billion.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - A Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, man was sentenced on Thursday to 41 months in prison, followed by five year’s supervised release for smuggling narcotics stemming from an illegal tunnel found under an Arizona residence he rented. Special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) conducted the investigation.
By David Hutton | Jun 24, 2021
The Department of Interior is researching wind in the Gulf of Mexico and the impact wind turbines could have on oil rigs used by the oil and gas industry in the region as it is developing plans for offshore wind off the coasts of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: Was a drug user with no criminal history.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two Passaic County, New Jersey, residents admitted to possessing contraband within a Paterson, New Jersey, home, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced today.
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement on the committee’s approval of six bills, four resolutions, seven nominees, and one FSO list during two business meetings this week:
