News from June 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) issued the following statement after the House of Representatives passed 10 bills in the Committee's jurisdiction...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), introduced S. 2185, the Western Water Infrastructure Act of 2021. This legislation will reauthorize expiring programs for the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) and authorize funding to eliminate the BOR infrastructure maintenance backlog.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A former Coahuila, Mexico, governor has been ordered to federal prison for his role in a money laundering scheme that includes offenses against a foreign nation involving bribery of a public official, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux, Houston Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Opening remarks, as prepared, of Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Ranking Member Daniel Webster (R-FL) from today’s hearing entitled, “Building Smarter: The Benefits of Investing in Resilience and Mitigation":
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Three Texas men were sentenced yesterday for violent crimes against users of the gay dating app Grindr, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah and Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Juan Diaz, 40, of Manchester, pleaded guilty in federal court to being a felon in possession of a firearm, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: This past year, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM) and the Navajo Abandoned Mine Lands Reclamation/Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (AML/UMTRA) Department were looking for innovative ways to stay connected to community members and identify projects to benefit all...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Almondo Baker, 40, La Crosse, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 72 months in federal prison for unlawfully possessing a loaded firearm as a convicted felon. Baker pleaded guilty to this charge on May 4, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Terrell Anderson, of Bridgeport, West Virginia, was found guilty today of a child pornography charge, Acting U.S. Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Agriculture Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management Chair Cheri Bustos delivered the following statement at today's hearing titled “A Hearing to Review the Efficacy of the Farm Safety Net.".
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Albert T. Nguyen, M.D., of Oklahoma City, paid $325,000 to settle civil penalty claims stemming from allegations that he violated the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 and its regulations. The settlement was announced by Eduardo A. Chávez, Special Agent in Charge of the DEA Dallas Field Division.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Ohio Emergency Management Agency (Ohio EMA) announced today that $4,798,142 in federal funding has been made available to Premier Health for costs related to the state’s response to COVID-19 under the federal disaster declaration of March 31, 2020.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: * A Yellowstone National Park aquatic invasive species (AIS) boat inspector found quagga mussels on a visitor’s boat during a routine AIS inspection Thursday, June 17, at Grant Village. The inspector prevented the contaminated boat from launching.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Beatrice, Nebraska - Homestead National Historical Park will be hosting Joan Wells as a part of our annual Homestead Days event. Joan Wells will be featured at the Education Center’s outdoor stage on Sunday, June 27, 2021 at 2:00 PM. Wells has toured with her trick roping and western music for the National School Assemblies Agency of Hollywood, CA and won the title as Women’s World Champion Trick Roper at the Will Rogers Trick Roping Contest in Claremore, OK.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A Fairfield man was sentenced today for being for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Acting Special Agent in Charge Mickey French.
By State Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Good afternoon, everyone. It’s very, very good to be here in Berlin, especially good to be here because we have an important conference bringing together international and Libyan partners in, I think, a moment of opportunity to reinforce the support of the international community for Libya as it moves forward toward elections, sustaining the ceasefire, getting foreign forces out of the country, and continuing the support of the international community.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Two Houston men have been ordered to federal prison for their involvement in a conspiracy to import meth into the United States, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - On Tuesday, June 22, 2021, United States District Chief Judge John A. Jarvey sentenced George Freeman Cary, age 57, of Fort Madison, to 360 months in prison for Receiving and Distributing Child Pornography and Possessing Child Pornography, announced Acting United States Attorney Richard D. Westphal. Following his prison term, Cary was ordered to serve twenty years of supervised release, as well as pay $100 to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Walter Valdivia, Jr., age 38, of Matamoras, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on June 21, 2021, to 33 months’ imprisonment by U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion, for possession of a shotgun with a barrel length of less than 18 inches.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - Michael Tae Kim Ahlers, 50, of Lenexa, Kansas, was sentenced to two years in prison after stealing more than $556,000 from his former employer, the University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC), as well as from KUMC Research Institute and from KU Endowment. In February, Ahlers pleaded...
