News from May 2021
By USDA Wire | May 28, 2021
The US Agriculture Department published a one page notice on May 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | May 28, 2021
The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on May 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Newswire | May 28, 2021
Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack released the following statement today.
By US DOT Newswire | May 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) released the following statement after the Biden administration released the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Hudson Tunnel Project-a major element of the Gateway Program-clearing a key hurdle...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2021
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Veronica Lewis, 37, of Worchester, Vermont, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Christina Reiss after previously having pled guilty to Interference with Commerce by Robbery and Possession of a Stolen Firearm.
By DOL Newswire | May 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration will participate in virtual listening sessions on June 16, 2021, and July 8, 2021 hosted by the Environmental Protection Agency.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2021
News Release: Davenport, Iowa - Joshua Lee Scheper, age 40, of Davenport, was sentenced on May 27, 2021, by United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey to 30 months in prison for Making False Statements During Firearm Purchases. Scheper was ordered to serve three years of supervised release to follow his prison term as well as pay $100 to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BRANDON SPENCE, also known as “Spun," 33, of Hartford, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 24 months of imprisonment for violating the conditions of his federal supervised release.
By Homeland Newswire | May 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) and Gary Peters, Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, introduced the Preventing Disaster Revictimization Act, legislation that prevents the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from...
By DOL Newswire | May 28, 2021
News Release: Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), the Republican Leader of the House Committee on Education and Labor, issued the following statement in response to President Biden’s budget proposal...
By Interior Newswire | May 28, 2021
News Release: Ice Age Floods rafted a two-ton igneous rock not normally found in Oregon's Willamette Valley to Tualatin. It was discovered during excavation for the new Lakeridge Junior High School. The Rhyolite is mottled yellow, brown and greenish rock which likely came from the mountains of British Columbia, Canada or Montana.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. Magistrate Judge J. Mark Coulson today sentenced Michael Haak, age 60, of Longwood, Florida, to one year of probation, after Haak admitted that he committed a lewd, indecent, or obscene act during a flight in which he was pilot in command. At the time of the crime, Haak was employed as a pilot with Southwest Airlines. Magistrate Judge Coulson also ordered Haak to pay a fine in the amount of $5,000.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2021
News Release: Also Indicted were a PICC Inmate and the Inmate’s Girlfriend.
By Commerce Newswire | May 28, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued this statement following the Senate vote against establishing an independent, bipartisan 9/11-type commission that would examine the attack on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - An Auburn man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Worcester to filing a false personal tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2021
News Release: Miami, Florida -- A Georgia man was sentenced yesterday to over 11 years in federal prison for defrauding Tricare of approximately $12 million through a South Florida compounding pharmacy fraud scheme. Tricare is the health care benefit program covering military personnel and their dependents.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2021
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: North South Polar, Inc., located in Renton, Washington; and Luciano A. Sapienza, of Rockland, Maine; have agreed to pay $40,585 as a result of their violations of the False Claims Act, Acting U.S. Attorney Donald E. Clark announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2021
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal judge today sentenced a Talladega man on drug charges, announced United States Attorney Prim F. Escalona and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Mickey French.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and David Sundberg, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced that ERIC WOODIE, 30, of New Britain; DOMINIC COLON-BROWN, 27, of Farmington; and JULIAN JUDGE, 22, of New Britain, have been charged federally with trafficking firearms that were stolen in Florida to Connecticut.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Dr. Nora Meaney-Elman, a Williamsville physician, has agreed to pay $60,000 to resolve allegations that she violated the Controlled Substances Act by failing to safeguard the token and password she used to e-prescribe controlled substances.
