News published on Federal Newswire in June 2021

News from June 2021


News Release: The White House Is In Denial About Their Crippling Tax Increases and Runaway Spending.


USDA Designates Four Florida Counties as Primary Natural Disaster Areas

News Release: This Secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans. Emergency loans can be used to meet various recovery needs including...


The United States and France: Allies, Partners, and Friends

Release: “President Macron and I stand together, ready to take on the toughest challenges we face."


Biden-Harris Administration Extends Foreclosure Moratorium to Provide Relief to Homeowners

News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture today extended through July 31, 2021, the moratorium on foreclosures from properties financed by USDA Single-Family Housing Direct and Guaranteed loans. These actions will bring relief to hundreds-of-thousands of residents in rural America who have housing loans through USDA.


U.S. Department of Commerce Invests $577,917 in CARES Act Recovery Assistance to Boost Biotechnology Workforce Training Efforts at Alamance Community College in Graham, North Carolina

News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $577,917 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to Alamance Community College, Graham, North Carolina, to support the region’s growing biotechnology sector by purchasing equipment needed to train...


Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Securities And Wire Fraud Charges Against Founder And Manager Of Mutual Fund

News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Philip R. Bartlett, Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Office of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (“USPIS"), announced today that OFER ABARBANEL was arrested this morning in Los Angeles, California, and charged with securities fraud and wire fraud in connection with ABARBANEL’s scheme to defraud investors in a mutual fund he founded and controlled.


DOE Announces Over $65 Million in Public and Private Funding to Commercialize Promising Energy Technologies

Release: 2021 Technology Commercialization Fund Awards Connect Private-Sector Partners to DOE National Labs, Bolstering U.S. Competitiveness While Combating the Climate Crisis


News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A former governor of Mexico’s third largest state was sentenced to three years in federal prison Wednesday in the Southern District of Texas for his role in a money laundering scheme that includes offenses against a foreign nation involving bribery of a public official.


News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Health Subcommittee hearing titled, "Empowered by Data: Legislation to Advance Equity and Public Health:"


Morris County Man Admits Conspiring and Possessing with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine

News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Susan A. Gibson and Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Rachael A. Honig announced a Morris County, New Jersey, man today admitted conspiring to distribute and possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine from his residence.


News Release: Washington, D.C. - Republican Leader of the Energy and Commerce Committee Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Energy and Commerce subcommittee Republican leaders released the following statements on bills that passed the House this week with bipartisan support.


Energy and Commerce Republicans Applaud Bipartisan Bills Passing the House

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Republican Leader of the Energy and Commerce Committee Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Energy and Commerce subcommittee Republican leaders released the following statements on bills that passed the House this week with bipartisan support.


News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Health Subcommittee hearing titled, "Empowered by Data: Legislation to Advance Equity and Public Health:"


Boston Man Sentenced for Fentanyl Trafficking

News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for fentanyl distribution.


News Release: Today, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chair Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and House Committee on Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) shared new details of the INVEST in America Act, which is scheduled to be on the House floor next week. The INVEST in America Act will create...


Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Prime Minister, welcome again. And I’m so pleased to have this opportunity to see you, to see the foreign minister, to see your delegation, especially after the very good, good day we had yesterday, which I think demonstrated again the very strong support on the part of the international community, the United Nations for Libya, for a strong, positive future as a unified, independent, stable country without any foreign interference.


News Release: A federal jury in Brooklyn today returned a guilty verdict against Daniel Martin Katz on both counts of an indictment charging him with abusive sexual contact and assault in the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States. The verdict followed a three-day trial before United States District Judge Frederic Block.


News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for his role in a cocaine conspiracy.


Illinois Man Arrested for Assault on Law Enforcement, and First to be Arrested for Assault on Members of News Media during Jan. 6 Capitol Breach

News Release: Defendant Tripped and Pushed Officer to the Ground, Breached Media Staging Area and Tackled Cameraman.


Biden-Harris Administration Extends Moratorium of Residential Evictions in USDA Multifamily Housing Communities in Accordance with CDC Guidance

News Release: Washington - Today, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) extended through July 31, 2021, the moratorium on evictions of the hundreds-of-thousands of Americans who live in multifamily housing communities supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.