News from May 2021
By Commerce News Now | May 13, 2021
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on May 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.1 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Center for Applied Research and Technology (CART), Bluefield, West Virginia, to provide critical...
By USDA Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: This Secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans. Emergency loans can be used to meet various recovery needs including...
By Homeland Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) today announced the formation of a Space Systems Critical Infrastructure Working Group, a mix of government and industry members that will identify and develop strategies to minimize risks to space systems that support the nation’s...
By USDA Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: This Secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans. Emergency loans can be used to meet various recovery needs including...
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: HARTFORD, Conn. - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Omrys Delgado, 33, of Windsor, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 87 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man today admitted to conspiring to defraud two banks of more than $250,000 using stolen credit cards and blank checks, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: Methamphetamine and cocaine distributed in Butte, Sacramento, Sutter, and Yuba Counties.
By State Newswire | May 13, 2021
Release: The U.S. Department of State, through the Providing Opportunities for Women’s Economic Rise (POWER) Initiative, and in partnership with Google’s Women Techmakers, will host the Women Tech Founders Kick Off: #LoopHerIn on May 17, 2021 to launch the Women Tech Founders Program.
By DOE Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: For the seventh consecutive year, the Green Electronics Council (GEC) awarded its Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) Purchaser Award to the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Legacy Management (LM). LM received the award for making purchases within four EPEAT categories.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Thomas P. Barber has sentenced Robert Boehme (64, Nokomis) to 27 years and 3 months in federal prison for receiving and possessing materials depicting the sexual exploitation of children. Boehme was also ordered to serve a 10-year term of supervised release and to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - This afternoon a federal jury in Tallahassee convicted Constantino Charrez, 27, of Quincy, on the sole count of coercing or enticing a minor to engage in sexual activity. The conviction, which followed a two-day trial that began on Wednesday, was announced by Jason R. Coody, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - Massachusetts-based global financial services company State Street Corporation entered into a deferred prosecution agreement and agreed to pay a $115 million criminal penalty to resolve charges that it engaged in a scheme to defraud a number of the bank’s clients by secretly overcharging for expenses related to the bank’s custody of client assets.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: DES MOINES, Iowa - Marlin Santana Thomas, age 45, of Des Moines pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to sex trafficking six victims by force, fraud, and coercion announced Acting United States Attorney Richard D. Westphal. Thomas is scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 10, 2021, before United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey.
By Commerce Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, and Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, Chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security, issued the following statement in response to President Biden’s Executive Order to improve the nation’s cybersecurity and protect federal government networks...
By Commerce Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Below is Committee on Oversight and Reform Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney’s opening statement about the bipartisan Postal Service Reform Act, as prepared for delivery, for today’s hybrid business meeting.
By DOL Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: Committee Republicans are not sitting idly by while President Biden and the radical left try to turn civics lessons into Socialism 101. The administration supports critical race theory curriculum, which reduces our children to victims and oppressors based solely on the color of their skin. The Education Department is using this racist ideology to radicalize an entire generation of young people against America and the ideals of freedom and equality.
By US DOT Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: Opening remarks, as prepared, of U.S. Rep. Michael Guest (R-MS) from today’s Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management hearing entitled, “Federal Real Estate Post-COVID-19 Part One: A View From The Private Sector":
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - A federal jury in the Western District of Louisiana has found Eric Etienne, 33, of New Iberia, Louisiana, guilty of illegal possession of firearms, announced Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook. The two-day jury trial took place in Lafayette before United States District Judge Michael J. Juneau.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin Mokhtari (619) 546-8402.
