News from May 2021
By State Newswire | May 28, 2021
Release: On behalf of the Government of the United States of America, I congratulate the people of Azerbaijan as you celebrate Republic Day and mark the 1918 establishment of the first democratic government in the Muslim world.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2021
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit yesterday affirmed the convictions of a Birmingham lawyer and an Alabama coal company executive in a scheme to bribe a state legislator to use his office to oppose Environmental Protection Agency actions in north Birmingham, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell, III sentenced Kamal Dorchy, age 46, of Beltsville, Maryland, yesterday to eight years in federal prison, followed by 15 years of supervised release, for conspiracy to commit sex trafficking. Judge Russell also ordered that, upon his release...
By Homeland Newswire | May 28, 2021
News Release: GREENBELT, Md. - After providing more than 115,000 shots in arms, the team at the FEMA-run Greenbelt Community Vaccination Center (CVC) will offer its final vaccinations Tuesday, June 1.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2021
News Release: HOUSTON - Cloudgen LLC has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit H-1B visa fraud, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By Homeland Newswire | May 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Mark Kelly (D-AZ) introduced the Border Response Resilience Act to require DHS and federal partners to create a strategic plan and to conduct exercises to improve the...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal jury in Bridgeport has found ANDRE DENNIS, 40, of Waterbury, guilty of narcotics and firearm offenses. The trial before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden began on May 26 and the jury returned its verdict this morning.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Following a four-day trial, a jury today found Romano McCain, age 48, of Halfmoon, New York, guilty of possession of a firearm and ammunition by a prohibited person and two counts of interstate transmission of threats to injure another person.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2021
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Lucas Anderson, 26, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William Conley to 48 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Anderson pleaded guilty to this charge on Feb. 23, 2021.
By Commerce Newswire | May 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Committee on the Judiciary Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) today launched a probe into a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant awarded to EcoHealth Alliance which then awarded taxpayer funds to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China to study bat coronaviruses.
By Interior Newswire | May 28, 2021
News Release: Republic, MO. - National Park Service officials were joined by Senator Roy Blunt, Congressman Billy Long and members of the Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield Foundation at a ribbon-cutting ceremony today to mark the completion of the 18-month, $3.5 million renovation project and welcome visitors back to Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield Visitor Center and Museum. NPS staff and volunteers in period uniforms celebrated with a special artillery firing.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Alliah Jawaun Soseeah, 23, of Zuni, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Zuni Pueblo, was sentenced on May 26 in federal court to nine years in prison for two counts of assault resulting in substantial bodily injury of a minor in Indian Country.
By State Newswire | May 28, 2021
Release: Today, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, an agency of the Department of Homeland Security, issued Withhold Release Orders (WROs) for seafood products imported from the Dalian Ocean Fishing Company, a firm in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) for which there is credible evidence of the use of forced labor to harvest its seafood, primarily tuna. As a result, the United States is prohibiting the import of seafood products from this company.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2021
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - Larcentursa Mayweather a.k.a. “Cent" a.k.a “Lacenturia," 49, of Winnfield, Louisiana, has been convicted on armed bank robbery charges, Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced. United States District Judge Dee D. Drell presided over the four-day trial held in Alexandria.
By Commerce Newswire | May 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) released its budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2022. House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) issued the following statement in response.
By US DOT Newswire | May 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued an alert advising U.S. passenger airlines to exercise extreme caution while flying over Belarus.
By State Newswire | May 28, 2021
Release: In May of 1941, my fifteen year-old maternal grandfather returned to the United States, the land of his birth, to earn money to send to his family in Japan. Seven months later, the country of his birth and the country he called home entered into a terrible war, preventing my grandfather from reuniting...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2021
News Release: Jury Convicts West Virginia Doctor of Drug Distribution.
By State Newswire | May 28, 2021
Release: Today, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, an agency of the Department of Homeland Security, issued Withhold Release Orders (WROs) for seafood products imported from the Dalian Ocean Fishing Company, a firm in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) for which there is credible evidence of the use of forced labor to harvest its seafood, primarily tuna. As a result, the United States is prohibiting the import of seafood products from this company.
By USDA Newswire | May 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Agriculture Committee Chairman David Scott issued the following statement regarding the release of the White House FY 2022 Budget Request...
