News from May 2021
By Homeland Newswire | May 27, 2021
Release: Today, the Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced a Security Directive that will enable the Department to better identify, protect against, and respond to threats to critical companies in the pipeline sector.
By Commerce Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - While Democrats’ top-down approach to family leave and child care puts Washington in control of workers’ benefits and permanently cuts paychecks for life, Republicans today unveiled an early draft of the Protecting Worker Paychecks and Family Choice Act that would provide greater flexibility and choice to parents while focusing the greatest benefits on low-wage workers.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Michigan man was sentenced today in federal court in Springfield on firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment today against Angelo Joseph Fernandez, 41, of Fresno, charging him with being a felon in possession of ammunition, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOL Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, during a hearing, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, urged her colleagues to support the nominations of Raj Nayak, to serve as Assistant Secretary of Labor for Policy, Taryn Mackenzie Williams, to serve...
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: DEL RIO - A federal jury in Del Rio yesterday convicted 24-year-old Ludwin Artemio Santizo-Escobedo, a Guatemalan national, of assaulting a U.S. Border Patrol agent near Sanderson in 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that RULESS PIERRE was convicted in Manhattan federal court today of securities fraud, wire fraud, and structuring charges. PIERRE was convicted after a trial before Judge Sidney Stein.
By State Newswire | May 27, 2021
Release: The United States is outraged that peaceful demonstrators who took to the streets to urge reform were met with threats and brutal violence. Moreover, the violation of Iraqi sovereignty and rule of law by armed militias harms all Iraqis and their country. We welcome every effort by the government to hold...
By Commerce Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $4.8 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to help the state of Texas prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus.
By DOL Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) delivered the following opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at a Higher Education and Workforce Investment Subcommittee hearing on creating employment pathways for dislocated workers...
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bronx, New York, man was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for participating in a conspiracy to distribute heroin and fentanyl from a drug mill in the Bronx to locations in New Jersey, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By Commerce Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.2 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the city of Cleveland, Mississippi, to construct critical water infrastructure needed to accommodate...
By Commerce Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.-- U.S. Senators Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, and Michael Bennet (D-Colorado), member of the Committee, reintroduced S. 1873 the Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act, which would provide Medicare coverage for screening tests...
By Interior Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: Contact: Marsha McCabe. Crater Lake, OR - The North Entrance Road and West Rim Drive in Crater Lake National Park will open for travel Friday morning, May 28, 2021 - just in time for the holiday weekend. Superintendent Craig Ackerman announced that visitors will now be able to drive to and from the park...
By Commerce Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, and Subcommittee Member Rep. Katie Porter sent letters to Nevada Donor Network and the Association of Organ Procurement Organizations (AOPO) requesting documents concerning certain costs submitted to Medicare for reimbursement and indirectly paid for by Medicare following compromising testimony before the Subcommittee.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Harold McDonald, 23, of Virginia, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra to conspiring to distribute 1,000 kilograms or more of marijuana. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life in prison, and a $10,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national previously residing in Lawrence was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for fentanyl conspiracy charges.
By Interior Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Just in time for Great Outdoors Month, the National Park Service today unveiled a top-ten list of visitation tips encouraging members of the public to Plan Like a Park Ranger this summer. Visit go.nps.gov/planlikeaparkranger for national park ranger insider tips for great national park adventures.
By Commerce Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady (R-TX), alongside House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), Republican Leader of the Worker and Family Support Subcommittee Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-IN), Rep. Michelle Steel (R-CA), and 13 other Ways and Means Republicans, introduced the Combatting COVID Unemployment Fraud Act of 2021 (H.R. 3268).
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that Edmond Carl Warrington, age 71, of Okemah, Oklahoma was found guilty by a federal jury of three counts of Sexual Abuse In Indian Country, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections...
