News from June 2021
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: BILLINGS, Mont. -- Reclamation's June forecast of the April through July runoff predicted for the Bighorn River Basin is as follows...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Dr. Kenneth C. Ramdat, a physician formerly employed at the Louis A. Johnson VA Hospital in Clarksburg, West Virginia, has admitted to assaulting two hospital employees, Acting U.S. Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) released the following joint statement today after the House of Representatives passed four consumer protection bills...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that on June 22, 2021, the Honorable Greg A. Guidry sentenced DAMIEN JUSTIN, age 43, to 97 months imprisonment for being a prohibited person in possession of two (2) firearms. Additionally, the Court ordered that JUSTIN to serve 3 years of supervised release and pay a $100 mandatory special assessment cost. No fines were imposed in this matter.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) released the following joint statement today after the House of Representatives passed two public health bills...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a full Committee markup of drinking water and PFAS bills...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Thomas P. Barber has sentenced Justin Case Lebarron (28, Pasco County) to life imprisonment for conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and methamphetamine resulting in death, distribution of fentanyl and methamphetamine resulting in death, possession with the intent to distribute fentanyl, and maintaining a drug-involved premises.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Miami, Fl. - South Florida federal prosecutors have charged a Miami-Dade County business owner with facilitating a $140 million transnational illicit gold smuggling operation aimed at laundering cash with alleged ties to criminal activity.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the full Committee voted to favorably advance three bills to increase access to safe, affordable water, and protect Americans from PFAS contamination...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chair Mike Doyle (D-PA) announced today that the Communications and Technology Subcommittee will hold a legislative hearing on Wednesday, June 30, at 10:30 a.m. (EDT) in the John D. Dingell...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) released the following joint statement today after the House of Representatives passed two public health bills...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina --- Acting United States Attorney M. Rhett DeHart announced today that, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s 2020 Elder Fraud Report, 1,350 South Carolinians aged 60 or over fell victim to cyber scammers. The report states that these South Carolinians reported losses of nearly $10 million in 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Carl David Davis, of Hepzibah, West Virginia, has admitted to a firearms charge, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - A man and his wife have been charged in federal court in Chicago with participating in a mortgage fraud scheme that defrauded financial institutions out of at least $2.5 million.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON- U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, released the following opening remarks, as prepared, from the hearing entitled “Examining Markets, Transparency, and Prices from Cattle Producer to Consumer"...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Republican Leader of the Health Subcommittee Brett Guthrie participated in a press conference with Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy and House Republican Leadership about the urgency of the COVID-19 origins investigation and why America must lead to get answers and hold China accountable.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. James E. Clyburn, Chairman of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, sent letters to the top executives of AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson, expanding their investigation into manufacturing...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a full Committee markup of drinking water and PFAS bills...
By State Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
Release: The United States is gravely concerned by reports that dozens of civilians were killed or injured during a bombing of a village market in northern Tigray on June 22. We strongly condemn this reprehensible act. There are also credible reports that security forces denied medical personnel access to the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Willie J. Wofford, 45, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford to possession of cocaine with intent to distribute and possession of a firearm and ammunition by an unlawful drug user. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, and a fine of $1,000,000 or both.
