News from September 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Maryland-based federal company, as well as its president and sole owner, agreed to pay $450,000 to settle allegations that they solicited and received kickbacks in connection with federal government contracts reserved for “8(a)" small businesses.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Md., - Michael Fisher, a.k.a. Mark Wilson, age 47, of Laurel, Maryland, pleaded guilty on Sept. 24, 2021, to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute fentanyl, cocaine, and marijuana and distribution and possession with intent to distribute fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A Houston businessman has been sentenced to prison for federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei today.
By State Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
Release: Yesterday, the premier human rights conference of the Europe-Eurasia region should have opened in Warsaw, Poland. Unfortunately, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s (OSCE) 2021 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM) did not convene due to a decision by the Russian government to block the meeting. We deeply regret this attempt by the Russian government to block scrutiny of its worsening human rights record.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) sent a letter to Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) expressing concerns over the Democrat’s push to acquire a litany of information and communications from private entities that are clearly protected under...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Burlington County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for conspiring to distribute heroin and cocaine in Camden, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Workers have finished installing another surface barrier above a group of large underground waste storage tanks at the Hanford Site. The gravel and asphalt barriers help protect groundwater by diverting water from rain, snow, sleet, or hail to a lined basin.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the House Education and Labor Committee Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Republican Leader of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) sent a third letter to Department of Education Secretary Cardona requesting an update on the Department’s plan to transition student loan borrowers from the repayment freeze in effect during the COVID-19 pandemic into active repayment status.
By State Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader Morgan Griffith (R-VA) sent a letter to Centers for Disease Control...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Dwayne Douglas, age 39, of Bowie, Maryland, to eight years in federal prison followed by four years of supervised release for being a member of a conspiracy to distribute and possession with the intent to distribute five kilograms of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Yesterday, ANTHONY RAY JONES, 55, of Midwest City, pleaded guilty to receiving approximately $55,210.50 in stolen money from the federal government through falsified travel claims, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester.
By State Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
Release: Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry will travel to Geneva, Switzerland; Milan, Italy; and Paris, France from September 29 to October 6, 2021, to engage with counterparts on efforts to address the climate crisis and raise global climate ambition ahead of the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which will be held October 31 to Nov. 12, 2021, in Glasgow, United Kingdom.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: Paid Undercover Agent to Kill Victim in Pending Statutory Sodomy Case.
By State Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: Monica P. Medina was confirmed as Assistant Secretary for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs on Sept. 28, 2021.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) gave the following statement after yet another major student loan servicer, Navient, announced it would end its federal contract...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH- A resident of McKees Rocks, PA, now in custody at Allegheny County Jail, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh, on a charge of attempted coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By State Newswire | Sep 27, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), ranking member and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today sent a letter to President Joe Biden expressing concerns regarding the recent findings by an independent investigation that Kristalina Georgieva, former ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2021
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Derek Torres a/k/a Bebe, 22, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of conspiring to possess with intent to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl, was sentenced to serve 18 months in prison by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer.
By State Newswire | Sep 27, 2021
News Release: President Biden appointed Jessica Stern as the U.S. Special Envoy to Advance the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex (LGBTQI+) Persons, and Special Envoy Stern will oversee the implementation of the February 4, 2021 Presidential Memorandum on Advancing the Human Rights of LGBTQI+ Persons Around the World.
