News from August 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: Defendant possessed three pounds of pure methamphetamine and two firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on August 4, 2021, Jeremy Fallbeck, age 31, of York, Pennsylvania, was charged with producing, receiving, and coercing child pornography and enticing a child to engage in unlawful sexual activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: A man who distributed a deadly cocktail of opioids was sentenced today to more than 15 years in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC - - Cape Lookout National Seashore is pleased to announce an August edition of Astronomy Night on Friday, Aug. 13, at the Harkers Island Visitor Center, from 8:00 p.m. until 10:00 p.m.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: On Thursday, August 5, 2021, at approximately 1:13 p.m., Glen Canyon Communications Center received an emergency marine band call reporting a possible drowning in the Warm Creek Bay area of Lake Powell within Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. Warm Creek is located between Navajo Canyon and Gunsight Bay, approximately 12 miles from the Glen Canyon Dam, in Kane County, Utah. The victim has been identified as Phil Chiang, a 49-year-old male from Palo Alto, California.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a new downloadable Cybersecurity Workforce Training Guide today to assist future and current cybersecurity and information technology (IT) professionals chart a successful career path. This guide is a one-stop-shop for information and resources to help professionals start and/or advance their careers in cybersecurity through training.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Senators Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., today launched an investigation into private equity ownership of for-profit hospice companies and subsequent reductions in the quality of care. The investigation centers on Kindred at Home and the period where the company was purchased and owned by Humana and two private equity firms, TPG Capital and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives released federal firearms licensee (FFL) burglary and theft data today for the first six months of calendar year 2021. ATF data shows a marked decrease in the number of FFL burglaries and robberies and the number of stolen firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that the government has reached a settlement agreement under the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA") with the Institute of Living at Hartford Hospital, on behalf of itself and its professional emergency...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A West Roxbury woman pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with a scheme involving inferior merchandise refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jacqueline Maguire, the Acting Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Dermot Shea, Police Commissioner of the City of New York (“NYPD"), announced the...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A former resident of Clearfield, PA pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violating narcotics laws, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A former Newton scientist sponsored by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has agreed to resolve allegations that he submitted false statements on a grant application to the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) sent a letter to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) responding to the dramatic rise in air rage incidents over the last several months. In his letter, DeFazio stated that the dramatic increase in airline passengers assaulting other passengers as well as crewmembers requires a strong federal response.
By State Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
Release: The text of the following statement was released by the G7 foreign ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and the High Representative of the European Union.
By State Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
Release: My tenure as Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues is drawing to a close; I will soon begin preparations for my next assignment. It’s been the privilege of a lifetime to serve, to honor the memory, & seek a measure of justice for the millions murdered in the Holocaust & under Nazi persecution.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - United States District Judge Sarah S. Vance sentenced ASHONTI HALL, 31, of New Orleans, Louisiana, on August 5, 2021 to 60 months in the Bureau of Prisons for possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 924(c), announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: Florence, South Carolina --- Acting United States Attorney M. Rhett DeHart announced today that Chazoid Cenetell Rogers, 42, and Oyarmma Robinson, 42, both of Hartsville, were sentenced to more than twelve years in federal prison, after pleading guilty to their roles in possessing with the intent to distribute and distributing methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: ANCHORAGE - A Kodiak, Alaska, man was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Joshua M. Kindred to six months in federal prison, a $1,000,000 fine, 126 days in a halfway house and 80 hours of community service. He must also make a public service announcement acknowledging his wrongdoing for knowingly submitting false records on halibut and sablefish.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2021
News Release: ATLANTA - Richard J. Randolph, III has been sentenced for securities fraud he committed while CEO of Randolph Acquisitions, Inc.
