News from September 2021
By DOL Newswire | Sep 30, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, and U.S. Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, released the following statement in response to the Department of Health...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2021
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - A Stearns County man was sentenced today to 10 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and possession of firearms as a felon.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 30, 2021
News Release: Today the U.S. Census Bureau released 2019 Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS) data in the Census API and on data.census.gov. This is in addition to the data released September 22 in CSV format on the BDS website. The BDS data are an annual time series covering the years 1978 to 2019. The data provide...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2021
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - Shawn Franklin, Anthony Maryland, and Sabrina Wiggins Branch pleaded guilty today to defrauding financial institutions and other lenders by using synthetic identities to obtain credit cards and consumer loans with no intention of payment. All three individuals were living in the Eastern District during the multi-year conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - DAVID TRAN, age 42, of Bridge City, Louisiana, was sentenced on Sept. 29, 2021 by the Honorable Jane Triche Milazzo to 140 months in the Bureau of Prisons for violating the Federal Controlled Substances Act, announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.
By State Newswire | Sep 30, 2021
Release: On behalf of the United States, I congratulate all Batswana on the 55th anniversary of your country’s independence.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2021
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that two men from South Louisiana have been sentenced by United States District Judge Robert R. Summerhays.
By State Newswire | Sep 30, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today introduced the Biological Weapons Policy Act, a bill to keep Americans safe from the threat of biological weapons, including by increasing scrutiny of research collaboration with malign actors like China.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2021
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Christian Lamar Goode, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has admitted to his role in a multi-state organized drug trafficking enterprise dubbed the “19th Street Enterprise," Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 30, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.8 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the city of Roswell, New Mexico, to construct an airport hangar addition at the Roswell Air Center and support business expansion. This EDA grant is expected to create 45 jobs and retain 30 jobs.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - United States District Judge Sarah S. Vance sentenced NICK HELMSTETTER, age 29, of New Orleans, Louisiana, on Sept. 29, 2021 to 46 months in the Bureau of Prisons for violating the Federal Controlled Substances Act, Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1), 841(b)(1)(B), and 846, announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2021
News Release: BANGOR, Maine-A Dedham man was sentenced today in federal court for conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, Acting U.S. Attorney Donald E. Clark announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2021
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - An Indianapolis man was sentenced yesterday to more than 11 years in prison following his guilty plea to bank robbery and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence. He will also serve 3 years of supervised release and was ordered to pay restitution.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 30, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former Long Beach Police officer has been arrested pursuant to a federal grand jury indictment alleging he possessed and distributed child pornography when he was working as a law enforcement officer.
By State Newswire | Sep 30, 2021
Release: In a display of the enduring friendship and strategic partnership with Mozambique, U.S. Ambassador Dennis Walter Hearne, Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO) Managing Director Tracy Thomas, Mozambican Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy Ernesto Max Tonela, Maputo City Secretary of State Vicente Joaquim, and Maputo Province Governor Julio Parruque today dedicated the new U.S. Embassy in Maputo, Mozambique.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that ARCHIE MORRIS, age 43, of New Orleans, was sentenced on Sept. 28, 2021 for five counts of arson, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, 844(i).
By DOL Newswire | Sep 30, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Higher Education and Workforce Investment Committee Greg Murphy (R-NC) delivered the following statement, as prepared for delivery, at a subcommittee hearing on improving the closed school discharge process...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 30, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1 million grant to the Dumas Economic Development Corporation, Dumas, Texas, for infrastructure improvements to the Dumas Business Park to support business growth. This EDA project, to be matched with $1.2 million in local funds, is expected to create 105 jobs and generate $3 million in private investment.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 30, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The following are opening remarks, as prepared for delivery, from Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) during today’s hearing titled, “Assessing the Federal Government’s COVID-19 Relief and Response Efforts and its Impact - Part II." Video of DeFazio’s opening statement is here. More information on the hearing can be found here.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2021
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - The Justice Department announced today that it filed a civil complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia against Prince George County, Virginia, and the Virginia Retirement System (VRS) to enforce employment rights guaranteed to a member of the Virginia Army National Guard, Major Mark Gunn, under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA).
