News from March 2021
By USDA Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, March 18, 2021 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the USDA Forest Service will invest more than $218 million to fund Great American Outdoors Act projects to conserve critical forest and wetland habitat, support rural economic recovery, and increase public access to national forests and grasslands.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced that they have reached a proposed settlement with John Raftopoulos, Diamond Peak Cattle Company LLC and Rancho Greco Limited LLC (collectively, the defendants) to resolve violations ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: The United States has filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, seeking to enjoin a tax preparer from South Chicago Heights, Illinois, from preparing federal income tax returns for others.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: A Louisiana man was indicted and charged today in federal court in the Western District of Louisiana on six counts, including hate crime, kidnapping, firearm and obstruction charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: A former U.S. Department of State employee and his spouse were sentenced today for their roles in a conspiracy to traffic hundreds of thousands of dollars in counterfeit goods through e-commerce accounts operated from State Department computers at the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, Republic of Korea.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: A Florida man was charged with federal hate crime in Ocala for setting fire to a church.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: A Kentucky man pleaded guilty today to federal hate crimes and firearm charges arising out of the racially motivated shootings of Black individuals at a grocery store. Gregory A. Bush, 53, of Louisville, pleaded guilty to federal hate crime and firearm charges arising out of his racially motivated murder ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit today upheld an Eastern District of Virginia jury verdict convicting a man of acting and conspiring to act as an agent of the Turkish government within the United States without disclosing that relationship to the U.S. government. The Fourth Circuit also vacated an order granting a new trial and remanded the case for further proceedings before the district court.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: A Russian national pleaded guilty in federal court today for conspiring to travel to the United States to recruit an employee of a Nevada company into a scheme to introduce malicious software into the company’s computer network.
By Fed Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the execution of the enforcement action listed below: Bryn Mawr Trust Company, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania Flood insurance violations civil money penalty, dated March 16, 2021 Additional enforcement actions can be searched for here.
By State Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: On behalf of the United States Government, I congratulate the people of Aruba on your National Day celebrating the 35th anniversary of Aruba’s Status Aparte.
By State Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: *MODERATOR:* (Via interpreter) Ladies and gentlemen, foreign and defense ministers.
By State Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: PRESIDENT MOON: (Via interpreter) (In progress) The Republic of Korea was chosen in the Biden-Harris administration’s first cabinet-level overseas trip, and the fact that you two are visiting Korea demonstrates that the Biden-Harris administration (inaudible).
By State Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: The text of the following statement was released by the G7 foreign ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and the High Representative of the European Union.
By State Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III met with Republic of Korea (ROK) President Moon Jae-in today in Seoul. During the meeting, they reaffirmed that the strong U.S.-ROK Alliance is the linchpin of peace, ...
By State Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: QUESTION: (Via interpreter) So first, you picked Korea and Japan as your first nations to visit after you took office as the Secretary of State. Of course, you spent some time in Korea in 2016 as the deputy secretary, but this time, when you came back here, you were the head of the Department of State. ...
By State Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: The following statement was released by the Governments of the United States and the Republic of Korea: Republic of Korea (ROK) Minister of Foreign Affairs Chung Eui-yong and Minister of National Defense Suh Wook hosted a Joint Foreign and Defense Ministerial meeting with United States (U.S.) Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III in Seoul on Mar. 18, 2021.
By State Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: QUESTION: (Via interpreter) I understand that you will soon leave the country to have a meeting with China, and I would like to thank you very much for selecting SBS for your last interview before leaving the country.
By State Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: As the President has said, Nord Stream 2 is a bad deal — for Germany, for Ukraine, and for our Central and Eastern European allies and partners. The Department is tracking efforts to complete the Nord Stream 2 pipeline and is evaluating information regarding entities that appear to be involved.
By State Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: The United States is providing an additional nearly $52 million in assistance to respond to the humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. The United States has provided a total of nearly $153 million in humanitarian assistance since the crisis began.
