News from May 2021
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - A north suburban businessman pleaded guilty today to willfully evading more than $2.4 million in income taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: Charges Allege MDMA was Imported into the United States and Distributed in Utah.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: Defendants Deposited Nearly $1 Million In Fraudulent Checks Between New York and California.
By EPA Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Republicans unveiled the American Broadband Act to help close the digital divide by ensuring broadband infrastructure reaches all Americans and is not used to fund duplicative and wasteful overbuilding. Republicans on the Energy and Commerce Committee are leading the way...
By USDA Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today released the following opening statement at the hearing titled “Federal, State, and Private Forestlands: Opportunities for Addressing Climate Change." Live video of the hearing is available here.
By US DOT Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: Support continues to build for the E-BRIDGE Act, a bill to remove barriers for communities seeking to use Economic Development Administration (EDA) grants to develop high-speed broadband access. The bill is part of House Republicans’ broader broadband agenda.
By State Newswire | May 20, 2021
Release: Today, at the 12th Arctic Council Ministerial meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland, foreign ministers from all eight Arctic States signed onto the 2021 joint declaration reaffirming the Council’s commitment to maintain peace, stability, and constructive cooperation in the Arctic region, emphasizing Arctic States’...
By State Newswire | May 20, 2021
Release: Today, the United States is taking action against two senior leaders of Houthi forces in Yemen who are involved in military offensives that exacerbate the humanitarian crisis, pose a dire threat to civilians, and destabilize Yemen. In doing so, we are promoting accountability for Houthi actions that...
By Homeland Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House today passed the Emergency Security Supplemental to Respond to January 6th Appropriations Act, a $1.9 billion funding bill that covers the costs of the insurrection and protects the Capitol and those who visit and work here.
By Interior Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: PINEDALE - The Bureau of Land Management continues to consider and analyze diverse energy and infrastructure projects on public lands, including communications towers. Beginning today, the Pinedale Field Office is seeking public comment concerning proposals submitted by Union Telephone to construct new communication tower(s).
By US DOT Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today led a bipartisan group of senators in sending a letter to White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) Chair Brenda Mallory inquiring about the status ...
By DOL Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: ATLANTA - Since 1998, the U.S. Department of Labor has maintained the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Strategic Partnership Program. More than 850 partnerships have been formed to date, covering more than 31,300 employers and 2.5 million workers nationwide - with the goal of improving safety during large construction projects.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel today sentenced Davon Carter, age 40, of Baltimore, to four life terms in federal prison for two counts of conspiracy to murder a witness and one count each of witness retaliation murder and witness tampering murder, related to the murder of Latrina...
By USDA Newswire | May 20, 2021
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 1,224,000 metric tons of corn for delivery to China during the 2021/2022 marketing year.
By USDA Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON- U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, released the following opening remarks, as prepared, from the hearing entitled Federal, State, and Private Forestlands: Opportunities for Addressing Climate Change...
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - Federal authorities have charged a pharmacy technician at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Kerrville (VAMC) with stealing hydrocodone and oxycodone prescriptions from the VAMC mailroom and from mailboxes at some 40 locations in Kerrville, Ingram and Center Point.
By DOE Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Full Committee Ranking Member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Morgan Griffith (R-VA), Environment and Climate...
By Interior Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: On May 14, 2018, at approximately 12:28 p.m., the Glen Canyon Communications Center was notified by the Page Police Department of an unconscious male in the water at the Chains Day Use Area, located near Page, AZ within Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. Witnesses stated the male recreationally jumped...
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging a New York City man and woman with wire and mail fraud as part of a social media scheme that defrauded elderly victims out of over $660,000.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel today sentenced Davon Carter, age 40, of Baltimore, to four life terms in federal prison for two counts of conspiracy to murder a witness and one count each of witness retaliation murder and witness tampering murder, related to the murder of Latrina ...
