News from May 2021
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: Memphis, TN - Bruce Matthews, 28, has been sentenced to 137 months in federal prison for distribution of methamphetamine and using a firearm during a drug trafficking offense. Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph C. Murphy Jr., announced the sentence today.
By Commerce Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $960,000 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Board of County Commissioners of Garrett County, Oakland, Maryland, to increase access to affordable, reliable, and abundant internet service in western Maryland. This EDA grant, to be matched with $240,000 in state and local funds, is expected to create or retain more than 170 jobs.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: Miami, Fl. - Two Bolivian nationals and three United States citizens were arrested last week in Florida and Georgia on criminal charges related to their alleged roles in a bribery and money laundering scheme. The former Minister of the Government of Bolivia and another former Bolivian official are accused of receiving bribes paid by a U.S. company and individuals to secure a Bolivian government contract, and then using the U.S. financial system to launder those bribes.
By DOE Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), delivered the following remarks at a business meeting to consider the nominations of:
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - John R. Lausch, Jr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, today provided an update on federal prosecutions and strategies to combat violent crime in Chicago and the surrounding area.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Orentha James Pea, 43, of Shreveport, has been convicted by a federal jury on firearms charges, Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced. United States District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote presided over the two-day jury trial.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: Defendants Prosecuted as Part of The Guardians Project, a Federal Law Enforcement Initiative to Combat Corruption, Fraud, and Abuse in South Dakota.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: A man was sentenced today in federal court for attempting to have heroin mailed from Mexico to his Tulsa residence and for possession with intent to distribute heroin, fentanyl, and methamphetamine, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Acting U.S. Attorney William T. Stetzer announced today that five individuals have been sentenced to date on drug and gun charges as a result of proactive investigations led by federal and local law enforcement in Union County.
By State Newswire | May 27, 2021
Release: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will travel on June 1-2 to San José, Costa Rica, where he will engage with senior leaders from Central America, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic, as well as Costa Rican government officials and civil society.
By Commerce Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement on Republicans’ infrastructure counteroffer...
By Interior Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colorado - The Bureau of Land Management’s National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board will meet virtually June 30 - July 1, 2021. The board will discuss the management of wild horses and burros on public lands, including the challenges of safely reducing widespread overpopulation and measures for increasing the placement of wild horses and burros into good homes through adoptions and sales.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A California insurance and private equity executive was sentenced today in connection with using fraud and bribery to cheat on the ACT exam on behalf of his daughter.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Daniel Rammacher, 62, of Rochester, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with receiving and possessing child pornography, following a New York State conviction of Sexual Abuse in the First Degree. The charges carry a minimum penalty of 15 years in prison, a maximum of 40 years prison, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Ayoub Tabri, 25, of Arlington, VA, and Lester Fulton Smith, 26, of Philadelphia, PA were each charged by Superseding Indictment with two counts of arson and one count of obstruction of law enforcement in connection with the arson of a Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) vehicle.
By State Newswire | May 27, 2021
Release: The United States condemns the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) sanctions on a former U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF ) commissioner. These sanctions follow the PRC’s March retaliatory sanctions against two USCIRF commissioners as well as Canadian, UK, and European officials,...
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: Identified, Arrested the Same Day He Shared Live Video, Photos with Undercover Officer.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Rhode Island woman was charged today with sending phishing emails to candidates for political office and others.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Yesterday, an Ohio man was arrested in Alabama for crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, which disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress in the process of ascertaining and counting the electoral votes related to the presidential election.
By Commerce Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.-- U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, secured inclusion of the Trade Act of 2021 into the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act. The amendment was adopted by an overwhelming bipartisan majority, 91-4. Prior to the vote, Senator Crapo delivered...
