News from May 2021
By State Newswire | May 25, 2021
Release: The following statement was released by United States Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, and UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Syria’s presidential election.
By DOE Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced an investment of up to $14.5 million for research and development to cut waste and reduce the energy used to recycle single-use plastics like plastic bags, wraps, and films. This funding directed toward plastics recycling technologies...
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell has sentenced Steven Thomas Baryla (39, Lehigh Acres) to 10 years in federal prison for possessing images and videos depicting the sexual abuse of children. Baryla was also sentenced to a lifetime term of supervised release and ordered to register as a sex offender.
By Homeland Newswire | May 25, 2021
Release: House Appropriations Committee Chair and Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee Chair Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) delivered the following remarks at the subcommittee's hearing on the FY 2022 Budget Request for the National Institutes of Health.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell has sentenced Jamar Maurice James (31, Fort Myers) to 10 years in federal prison for possessing ammunition as a convicted felon in connection with a shooting at an apartment complex parking lot in Fort Myers.
By State Newswire | May 25, 2021
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...
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Two employees of a cargo handling company who worked at Los Angeles International Airport were arrested this morning pursuant to a federal grand jury indictment that charges them will stealing four gold bars that were part of a larger shipment going from Australia to New York.
By State Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement ahead of Syria’s presidential election on May 26:
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Roger Roberts, 49, of Wolcott, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession of child pornography involving prepubescent minors and receipt of child pornography. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 20 years and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, Ga.- A federal jury returned a guilty verdict this afternoon, convicting an Albany man for illegal possession of firearms by a prohibited person in the first criminal jury trial conducted in the Middle District of Georgia since the COVID-19 pandemic jury trial restrictions lifted in May 2021.
By State Newswire | May 25, 2021
Release: The following statement was released by United States Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, and UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Syria’s presidential election.
By State Newswire | May 25, 2021
Release: PRESIDENT ABBAS: (Via interpreter) In the name of God, the merciful and the compassionate, we would like to welcome Secretary Clinton, who visits us these - in these days -.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Passaic County, New Jersey, man today admitted distributing fentanyl, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By USDA Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: Agricultural Research Service scientists designed seven of the top ten-13 of the top 25-most used predictive technologies/simulation models that are reducing the loss of soil to erosion around the world, according to a recently published study.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: Indiana Man Pleads Guilty to Lacey Act Violations.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina -- Acting United States Attorney M. Rhett Dehart announced today that Cameron Banks, a/k/a “Reggie Staggers", a/k/a “Roy Hamilton," 36, of Mount Pleasant, was sentenced to nine years in federal prison for wire fraud, bank fraud, mail fraud, and health care fraud schemes.
By Commerce Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: Washington D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued the following statement after the Committee voted favorably to send her bill, the IG Independence and Empowerment Act, to the House floor...
By State Newswire | May 25, 2021
Release: MODERATOR: Great. So thank you, everybody, for being here. I’m going to introduce our moderator, our Deputy Assistant Secretary Hady Amr. He’s going to take it from here. Thank you, sir.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Washington, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on a charge of committing theft from the government, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On May 24, 2021, Terry Lee Gilbreath, age 52, was sentenced by the Honorable Judge Thomas A. Varlan, United States District Judge, to serve 50 years in prison for producing child pornography.
