News from June 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: DETROIT - A Lathrup Village doctor was sentenced today to 120 months in federal prison on charges of conspiracy and unlawful controlled substance distribution, Acting United States Attorney Saima Mohsin announced. Afzal Beemath was also ordered to pay $20,000. fine.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: MOAB, Utah - EM ’s Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project surpassed its own record, once again, recently completing its largest weekly shipment to date by transporting 21,092 tons of uranium mill tailings to the Crescent Junction disposal cell.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Two men will now serve substantial prison sentences for possession with intent to distribute more than 500 grams of meth, announced Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux, Houston Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Union County, New Jersey, man who owned and operated contracting businesses in Essex County, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for filing false tax returns that failed to report all his personal and corporate income, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and William S. Walker, Acting Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Boston, announced that SHARNICE JACKSON, 20, of Hartford, pleaded guilty today to a conspiracy offense related to a scheme to defraud Victoria’s Secret stores in Connecticut and Massachusetts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Johnnie Earl Ross III, 20, of Stockton, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to deal firearms without a license and possession of an unregistered machine gun, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - This morning, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, delivered opening remarks at a hearing entitled “Examining D.C. Statehood" where he discussed his constitutional concerns about statehood for the District...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: BISMARCK, ND - To combat the dangers workers face in trenching and excavation operations, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration and key stakeholders renewed an alliance to train workers on trenching and excavation hazards.
By State Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: In an effort to counter the often pernicious effect of biases in artificial intelligence (AI) that can damage people’s lives and public trust in AI, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is advancing an approach for identifying and managing these biases - and is requesting the public’s help in improving it.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following statement on the House floor in support of H.R. 983, the Preventing Crimes Against Veterans Act of 2021...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: Beatrice, Nebraska - Homestead National Historical Park will be hosting the Oklahoma Fancy Dancers as a part of our annual Homestead Days event. The Oklahoma Fancy Dancers will be featured at the Education Center’s outdoor stage on Sunday, June 27, 2021 at 1:00 PM. The Oklahoma Fancy Dancers are a group...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA -U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that on June 15, 2021, PERCEL GOMEZ, age 39, from Ascension Parish, Louisiana, was sentenced to time served by United States District Judge Greg G. Guidry for drug trafficking offenses. GOMEZ was also sentenced to 3 years of supervised release and to pay a $100 special assessment fee.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: For the first time in almost 70 years, a peregrine falcon chick has hatched and is learning to fly at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. The fledgling has been spotted flying around the cliffs of Maryland Heights alongside watchful parents. It was one of three hatchlings, but the only chick to make it through the vulnerable newborn phase and successfully fledge (develop feathers that enable it to fly).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Johnnie Earl Ross III, 20, of Stockton, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to deal firearms without a license and possession of an unregistered machine gun, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: “Mr. Chairman, thank you. I welcome Federal Reserve Chairman Powell and look forward to an interesting and important discussion about the state of our economy. But I want to begin by making sure the American people, the media, and our colleagues know that the House Democrat majority still refuses to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - Gene Legrand Hickman, Jr. of Moore County, age 63, was sentenced today to 228 months in prison for receiving child pornography. Hickman is also subject to lifetime supervision upon release.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: (BILLINGS, Mont.) - In an effort to consolidate multiple fire restriction notices, along with continued elevated fire risk across the Montana/Dakotas region, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has placed fire restrictions on BLM-administered lands within the following areas:.
By State Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Jonathan M. Cuney, age 38, and a part-time resident of East Greenbush, New York, pled guilty today to unlawfully possessing firearms including “ghost guns," and ammunition, and admitted to maintaining large collections of firearms and ammunition in East Greenbush and Humboldt County, California.
