News from June 2021
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: The Vermont agency contracted with Cambridge, Massachusetts-headquartered CIC Health to provide coronavirus testing throughout the Green Mountain State.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: OAKLAND - Ross Klinger has been charged in a criminal complaint with sexual abuse of a ward, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds, Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) Los Angeles Field Office Special Agent in Charge Zachary Shroyer, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Craig D. Fair.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: The defendant solicited prescription drug donations for bogus international relief missions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: SEATTLE - Twelve people are in custody today following a second round of arrests in an investigation involving armed drug trafficking, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Tessa M. Gorman. The indictments and arrests today are a follow-up to the April 7, 2021, takedown involving 24 defendants. Most of those arrested today will appear in U.S. District Court in Seattle and Tacoma this afternoon.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: Voyageurs National Park staff and contractors will resume work removing areas of invasive, hybrid cattail in wetlands within Voyageurs National Park from July through October of 2021. Activities include “grinding" up mats of floating cattails with a specialized cutting machine and removing the debris...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: ABINGDON, Va. - A Lebanon, Virginia man pleaded guilty today to using the online messaging application KIK to distribute images of child pornography to undercover law enforcement officers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that SALIFOU CONDE was found guilty of bank fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud on June 29, 2021, in connection with his involvement in a years-long scheme to steal over $1.5 million from New York City’s Human Resources Administration (“HRA"), following a four-day jury trial before U.S. District Court Judge Valerie E. Caproni.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution to create a Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol (H.Res. 503)...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) delivered the following remarks during today’s House Floor debate on the Speaker’s My Way or the Highway Bill 2.0 (H.R. 3684):
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - JOSHUA HOCKLESS, age 29, a resident of Belle Chasse, pled guilty to one count of bank fraud in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1344, announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans. HOCKLESS faces maximum penalties of up to 30 years imprisonment, a $1,000,000 fine, 5 years of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. Sentencing is currently set for Nov. 17, 2021 before the Honorable Sarah S. Vance.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was sentenced on Monday, June 28 in federal court in Boston for distributing fentanyl, identity theft and fraudulent use of a Social Security number.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: Memphis, TN - Jesus Navarrate, 48, a Mexican citizen, has been sentenced to 240 months in federal prison for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute. Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph C. Murphy Jr., announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Hanalei Aipoalani, 42, of Waianae, Hawaii, was sentenced today in federal court to 46 months of imprisonment for embezzling more than $500,000 from AmeriCorps and for agreeing to accept a bribe for the administration of grants under the CARES Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana, announced that ASHLY HOWARD (“HOWARD"), age 34, of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced on June 24, 2021 to five (5) years probation in federal court before U.S. District Judge Eldon E. Fallon for Theft of Government Funds, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 641 and Identity Theft, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1028(a)(7).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - A Des Moines woman was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger to eight years in federal prison for Conspiracy to Damage an Energy Facility. Jessica Rae Reznicek, age 39, was ordered to serve three years of supervised release to follow her prison term and pay $3,198,512.70 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and David Sundberg, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that MICHAEL NASTU, 62, of Bridgeport, was arrested today on a federal criminal complaint charging him with multiple child exploitation offenses.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) transitioned the Resilient Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Conformance Framework to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) as an approved project (P1952 ), which will further refine the framework into international industry standards for resilient PNT user equipment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A New York man today admitted participating in a scheme to traffic in contraband cigarettes, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Chair of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) joined U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Chair of the Committee on Energy and Commerce Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), and other members from both committees to discuss the INVEST in America Act...
By State Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
Release: Today, the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) announced a joint financing package of €600 million for Aspen Pharmacare Holdings Ltd., headquartered in South Africa, to expand local vaccine manufacturing capacity. DFC is working together with DEG (Germany), Proparco (France), and...
