News from May 2021
By Homeland Newswire | May 7, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Since being tasked by President Joe Biden in the nationwide vaccine rollout in January, FEMA has taken an “all-hands on deck" approach to its mission - including the enlistment of staff outside the agency.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2021
News Release: Physician Indicted in $6 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme.
By Interior Newswire | May 7, 2021
News Release: * Elk calving season will begin soon in Yellowstone National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2021
News Release: Four San Angelo tax preparers have been charged with submitting fraudulent tax returns to the IRS, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah.
By Interior Newswire | May 7, 2021
News Release: Ford’s Theatre Virtual Resources and Events.
By Interior Newswire | May 7, 2021
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is proposing a non-competitive sale of 84.06 acres to the City of West Wendover, which plans to develop a city hall, convention center, health facility, parks and recreation, and parking for public purposes.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Bob Murray announced today that SHAYNE KYLE ARMAJO, age 34 of Kinnear, Wyoming was sentenced to 42 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Scott W. Skavdahl. A jury found Armajo guilty in February of assaulting his uncle with a knife.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2021
News Release: PORTLAND, ME - The New England Field Division’s (NEFD) DEA 360 Maine Strategy is partnering with Drug Free Aroostook (Aroostook County Action Program) and Power of Prevention (Cary Medical Center) for a FREE family film showing of “If They Had Known".
By Interior Newswire | May 7, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, MD -- The National Park Service and the Friends of Fort McHenry (Friends) are excited to announce the addition of Sydni Ratliff-Phillips as an intern for the Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail (Trail).
By Interior Newswire | May 7, 2021
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument is pleased to announce the artists chosen for its 2021 Artist in Residence program. Julie Hutslar and Susan Roudebush will spend one to two weeks in residency creating works that represent the natural and cultural resources...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2021
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Dell Dingle, an inmate at the Federal Correction Institution Hazelton in Bruceton Mills, West Virginia, was sentenced today to an additional 30 months of incarceration after admitting to assault and contraband charges, Acting U.S. Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By State Newswire | May 7, 2021
Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Well, good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Let me start by thanking China and Foreign Minister Wang for initiating this critical discussion on the future of the United Nations and the international order. And thank you as well to the President of the General Assembly Bozkir for your leadership.
By Interior Newswire | May 7, 2021
News Release: Richmond, CA - Join National Park Service ranger, Betty Reid Soskin for an hour long informal virtual chat, every Thursday, at 2 pm, beginning May 13. Betty will share her thoughts and insights and answer questions in this informal virtual gathering. For those who have met her, this will be another opportunity...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2021
News Release: Forty-One Undocumented Noncitizens Detained. SAN ANTONIO- A Dallas man was arrested last night in San Antonio on federal criminal charges related to his alleged involvement in smuggling a large group of undocumented noncitizens. According to the criminal complaint filed today, 49-year-old Aron Bernard...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2021
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Today, U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn Jr sentenced James Tiwauna Murray, 24, of Charlotte, to 137 months in prison and three years of supervised release for the 2019 attempted armed robbery of a 7-Eleven convenience store, announced William T. Stetzer, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By Commerce Newswire | May 7, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Reps. Deborah Ross, Jamie Raskin, and Darrell Issa, along with Committee on Oversight and Reform Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney, Subcommittee on Government Operations Chairman Gerald E. Connolly, and Ranking Member Jody B. Hice introduced the bipartisan Inspector General Access Act to expand the jurisdiction of the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General (DOJ IG) to include investigating allegations of DOJ attorney misconduct.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A New York man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to heroin and fentanyl possession and distribution charges.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2021
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Jacksonville man was sentenced today to 360 months in prison for sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion. On Sept. 24, 2020, Jesse Gabriel Marks pled guilty to the charges. The sentence also requires Marks to pay $249,700 in restitution to multiple victims.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Odessa, Florida, was sentenced in federal court on May 5, 2021, for one count of conspiracy to smuggle misbranded drugs into the United States and introduce them into interstate commerce, as well as one count of money laundering conspiracy, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2021
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - On Tuesday, May 4, 2021, United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey sentenced Christopher Mateo Perez, age 29, of Rock Island, to 180 months in prison for Felon in Possession of a Firearm announced Acting United States Attorney Richard D. Westphal. Perez was ordered to serve three years of supervised release to follow his prison term as well as pay $100 to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
