News from May 2021
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - United States District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr. sentenced Tyler Scott Wangler to 102 months in prison today. The 29-year-old Poplar Bluff, Missouri resident pleaded guilty in February to one count of being a felon in possession of firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Johnsonburg, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of wire fraud, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By Interior Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nev. - Due to increasingly high temperatures, low humidity, and dry vegetation, the Bureau of Reclamation is immediately implementing and announcing support for fire restrictions to help reduce the risk of wildfires on lands it manages or maintains in Arizona, Clark County in Southern Nevada, and Imperial and Riverside counties in California, and in support of Bureau of Land Management fire restrictions issued earlier this month.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. has sentenced Joseph Daniel Harrison (43, Melbourne) to 12 months and 1 day in federal prison for participating in a wire fraud conspiracy. Harrison had pleaded guilty on Feb. 1, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that LOIS RUSSELL (“RUSSELL"), age 61 of Gibson, Louisiana, TANYA GIVENS (“GIVENS"), age 43, of Gibson, Louisiana; HENRY RANDLE (“RANDLE"), age 64, of Gibson, Louisiana; JOHN DIGGS (“J. DIGGS"), age 60, of Thibodaux, Louisiana;...
By Homeland Newswire | May 25, 2021
Release: BALTIMORE - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is looking to hire TSA officers at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport within the next few months.
By Commerce Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ahead of an expected landmark Supreme Court ruling this fall, the Natural Resources Committee today published an overview of the legal and economic damage done to generations of American citizens and American nationals living in the U.S. territories by the legal legacy of the Insular...
By Interior Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: GULF BREEZE, Fla. -- Gulf Islands National Seashore (GUIS) recently initiated a new method to prevent human disturbance of least tern nests within the park.
By Homeland Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – On Tuesday, May 25, 2021, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas met with Haitian community leaders at the Little Haiti Cultural Center in Miami, Florida. Secretary Mayorkas, joined by Congresswoman Frederica Wilson, met with members of the Haitian community, state and local ...
By USDA Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, May 25, 2021 — The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced the names of individuals who will hold senior staff positions in Washington, D.C.
By USDA Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, May 25, 2021 — “Today, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative made a request to initiate a dispute settlement panel under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) to challenge Canada’s allocation of dairy tariff-rate quotas (TRQs). This is an important step for American agriculture, ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that Huntington Bancshares Incorporated and TCF Financial Corporation have agreed to sell 13 branches in Michigan, with approximately $872.3 million in deposits, to resolve antitrust concerns arising from Huntington’s planned acquisition of TCF Bank. The divested assets include all of the deposits and loans associated with the divested branches, as well as the physical assets.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: As part of the 38th annual commemoration of National Missing Children’s Day, the Department of Justice today honored nine courageous individuals for their extraordinary efforts to recover missing children and bring sexual predators to justice. This year’s award recipients include four detectives and ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: An Indiana man pleaded guilty today to three felony counts of illegally harvesting American paddlefish and its roe.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: An Austrian man was arrested today in the United Kingdom on criminal charges related to his alleged participation in a conspiracy to launder hundreds of millions of dollars through the U.S. financial system as part of a scheme to pay bribes around the world and defraud the Brazilian government. The indictment ...
By Fed Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced its approval of the application under section 3 of the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 by Huntington Bancshares Incorporated, Columbus, Ohio, to acquire TCF Financial Corporation, Detroit, Michigan, and thereby indirectly acquire TCF's subsidiary national bank, TCF National Bank, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
By Fed Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday released the minutes of its interest rate meetings from April 5 through April 28, 2021.
By State Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: PRIME MININSTER NETANYAHU: Secretary Blinken, Tony, welcome to Jerusalem, your first visit as the Secretary of State. I have – since we’re running – we had a long discussion, and we’re running late, so I want to be very brief and speak about three points.
By State Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: FOREIGN MINISTER ASHKENAZI: Very briefly. It’s an honor and pleasure to have my friend the Secretary of State for his first official visit in Israel and welcoming him on behalf of the government and the people of Israel. The United States is our closest ally. I’m committed, as I’m sure the Secretary, ...
By State Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: MR SHRIER: We have – we are honored with a very special guest, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and I just want to say in introduction, sir, that you’re looking at a very small part of our embassy staff of nearly 1,500 persons. And when I look at our staff, what I see is hope – hope because we have ...
