News from May 2021
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2021
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - In honor of National Police Week, U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona recognizes the service and sacrifice of federal, state, and local law enforcement. This year, the week is observed Sunday, May 9 through Saturday, May 15, 2021.
By Interior Newswire | May 11, 2021
News Release: TAOS, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management Taos Field Office seeks public comment for designating motorized and non-motorized routes on the Taos Plateau. On May 13, the agency will release a draft Travel Management Plan (TMP) and associated Environmental Assessment (EA) called, “Horsethief Mesa," encompassing 2,060 acres of the Taos Plateau, north of Arroyo Hondo, N.M. on the Rio Grande's east rim.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Jan Sharp announced that Rose Ellen Points, 36, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was sentenced on May 11, 2021, by Senior United States District Judge Joseph F. Bataillon, for distribution of 50 grams or more of pure methamphetamine. Points received a sentence of 120 months with a five-year term of supervised release to follow. There is no parole in the federal system.
By USDA Newswire | May 11, 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 11, 2021
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - The president of a company providing goods to government agencies today admitted to attempting to defraud businesses in connection with government contracting, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Cambridge man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for child pornography offenses.
By Interior Newswire | May 11, 2021
News Release: MILWAUKEE - The Bureau of Land Management is holding a wild horse and burro placement event June 11-12, offering approximately 60 excess animals gathered from western rangelands at the Red Horse Ranch, 64247 Library Road, Cassopolis, Michigan.
By Commerce Newswire | May 11, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y.) introduced the bipartisan Postal Service Reform Act to make needed financial and operational reforms to the United States Postal Service.
By State Newswire | May 11, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, put out the following statement on the release of Georgian opposition leader Nika Melia from prison:
By State Newswire | May 11, 2021
Release: United States Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL). Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO):. DRL Supporting Peaceful Elections in Kenya. This is the announcement of funding opportunity number SFOP0008085. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 19.345. Type of Solicitation:...
By State Newswire | May 11, 2021
Release: The threat that Hizballah poses to the United States, our allies, and interests in the Middle East and globally, calls for countries around the world to take steps to restrict its activities and disrupt its facilitation networks. We applaud the countries in Europe, and South and Central America that have taken action against Hizballah in recent years and call on other governments around the world to follow suit.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Bulger, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to three years’ probation and the forfeiture of $1.75 million on his conviction of maintaining a drug involved premises and money laundering, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By USDA Newswire | May 11, 2021
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 680,000 metric tons of corn for delivery to China during the 2021/2022 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Craig Marranca, 32, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to possession of child pornography involving a prepubescent minor. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, and a $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2021
News Release: ABINGDON, Va. - Nancy Degollado, an Atlanta, Georgia woman and the final defendant to be sentenced in a multi-state methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy, was sentenced last week to 204 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2021
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Brian K. Dennis, 51, Spooner, Wisconsin, was sentenced Friday, May 7 by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 144 months in federal prison for possessing more than 50 grams of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute. This prison term will be followed by 5 years of supervised release. Dennis pled guilty to this charge on February 8, 2021.
By DOL Newswire | May 11, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray, Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), released the following statement on Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona’s announcement that all higher education students-including over 400,000 higher education students...
By USDA Newswire | May 11, 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 11, 2021
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Nathaniel Homestead, 29, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to a total of 84 months in federal prison for armed robbery and possessing ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Neeko Allen, age 29, of Troy, New York, was ordered detained today following his arrest last week on child pornography charges. The announcement was made by Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon and Thomas Relford, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
