News from March 2021
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: Canada is a constitutional monarchy with a federal parliamentary government. In a free and fair multiparty federal election held in October 2019, the Liberal Party, led by Justin Trudeau, won a plurality of seats in the federal parliament and formed a minority government.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Grenada is a parliamentary democracy with a bicameral legislature. Observers considered the 2018 elections to be generally free and fair. The New National Party won all 15 seats in the House of Representatives and selected Keith Mitchell as prime minister.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: India is a multiparty, federal, parliamentary democracy with a bicameral legislature. The president, elected by an electoral college composed of the state assemblies and parliament, is the head of state, and the prime minister is the head of government. Under the constitution, the country’s 28 states...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A New Jersey woman was sentenced today to two years in prison for engaging in a bribery and procurement fraud scheme while she served as a contracting officer for the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG).
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Zimbabwe is constitutionally a republic. The country elected Emmerson Mnangagwa president for a five-year term in 2018 in general elections. Despite incremental improvements from past elections, domestic and international observers noted serious concerns and called for further reforms necessary to meet...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
News Release: Miami, Florida - On March 28, 2021, Juan Antonio “Tony" Gonzalez assumed the role of Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida. Mr. Gonzalez served as the District’s First Assistant United States Attorney prior to entering this new position.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Providence man, one of nine individuals indicted by a federal grand jury for participating in schemes in several states to steal and sell nearly $700,000 worth of excavators, sport boats, jet skis, all-terrain vehicles, and trailers, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy and interstate transportation of stolen goods charges, announced Acting United States Attorney Richard B. Myrus.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
News Release: SEATTLE - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers removed a man to Mexico, Mar. 23, who was convicted of a 2011 murder.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
News Release: Washington - Today, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) extended the eviction moratorium to affected multifamily housing residents through June 30, 2021. This halt in residential evictions allows the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to extend relief to the hundreds-of-thousands of Americans who rely on USDA-supported multifamily housing communities.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) and Republican Conference Chairwoman Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) traveled around Wyoming to hear from local energy industry stakeholders, tour bothan active mine and reclaimed mine land,meet with leaders in the forest products industryand more.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Kazi Pervez, 41, of Methuen, Massachusetts pleaded guilty in federal court to bank fraud, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
News Release: NEW YORK - DEA Special Operation Division Special Agent in Charge Wendy C. Woolcock and United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Audrey Strauss announced today that Juan Manuel Avila Meza, a former member of the Honduran National Police, was sentenced today to 12 years in prison for conspiring to import cocaine into the United States. Avila Meza previously pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Lorna G. Schofield, who imposed today’s sentence.
By State Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: (In progress) and thank you, Dr. Ballour, both for the lifesaving service you performed for your fellow Syrians amidst the most harrowing circumstances, and for your powerful, determined efforts to bring the experiences of the Syrian people to the world - and to push for their rights to be respected.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
News Release: Memphis, TN - U.S. Marshal Tyreece Miller announces the Marshals Service is offering a cash reward for information that leads to the arrest of Michael Tucker who is wanted for three counts of First-Degree Murder.
By State Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
Release: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will deliver on-camera remarks on the release of the 2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, March 30, 2021, in the Press Briefing Room at the U.S. Department of State.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, March 29, 2021 — Oscar Gonzales was appointed today by President Biden to serve as Assistant Secretary for Administration at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
By USDA Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, March 29, 2021 — Today, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) extended the eviction moratorium to affected multifamily housing residents through June 30, 2021. This halt in residential evictions allows the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to extend relief to the hundreds-of-thousands of Americans who rely on USDA-supported multifamily housing communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has reached a settlement, through a consent decree, with the City of Orlando resolving allegations that the city violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when it discriminated and retaliated against Dawn Sumter, a female Assistant Fire Chief with the Orlando Fire Department (“Fire Department”).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
News Release: A California man pleaded guilty today to perpetrating a scheme to fraudulently obtain approximately $1.8 million in COVID-19 relief guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) through the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program and the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
News Release: The United States has filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Miami Division, seeking to bar two Miami-area tax return preparers from preparing federal income tax returns for others.
