News from December 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2021
News Release: $378,213 awarded to fiscal agents in the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A registered sex offender was arrested yesterday in connection with allegedly receiving and possessing child pornography via multiple groups on a messaging app.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Ricardo Torres, 37, of Philadelphia, PA, was convicted today at trial of illegally possessing a firearm when he knew was prohibited from doing so because he had been previously convicted of a felony.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 10, 2021
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho - After several years of planning, the Bureau of Land Management’s Coeur d’Alene Field Office will begin construction of a day-use recreation area at Ross Point on the Spokane River. To facilitate construction and to ensure public safety, the site and parking area will be temporarily closed beginning Dec. 13. Work will be conducted at the site through mid-June.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 10, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) released a request for information (RFI) seeking information on commercially available body cameras that feature the ability to automatically begin recording based on sensors triggered by surrounding events.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2021
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Saudi-born Canadian citizen pleaded guilty today to conspiring to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization (ISIS), resulting in death.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 10, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, released the final staff report culminating the Committee’s nearly three-year investigation into pharmaceutical pricing and business practices, which was launched by the late Chairman Elijah E. Cummings.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 10, 2021
News Release: (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, joined Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Ron Wyden (D-OR), and Paid Leave for All Director Dawn Huckelbridge to discuss the urgency...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2021
News Release: Nikolas P. Kerest has taken the oath of office to become the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont. Mr. Kerest was nominated by President Joseph Biden on Sept. 28, 2021 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on December 7, 2021. This afternoon, he took the oath of office from Chief United States District Court Judge Geoffrey W. Crawford.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Bob Murray announced today that BENITA LOUISE SMITH, 56, of Kinnear, Wyoming was charged by indictment for making a false statement. Smith appeared for an arraignment hearing before United States Magistrate Teresa M. McKee on Nov. 30, 2021, and pleaded not guilty to the charges. A trial has been set for Jan. 31, 2022, before United States District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal.
By State Newswire | Dec 10, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) released the following statements on yesterday’s Senate passage of S.Res.380, a resolution reiterating United States support for the people of the Republic of South Sudan ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice announced that it has awarded more than $17.5 million in grants to support the Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) Program. Funding will support efforts across the country to address violent crime, including the gun violence that is often at its core. The Puerto Rico Public Housing Authority was awarded $151,223 to administer PSN grant funds in the District of Puerto Rico.
By State Newswire | Dec 10, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement regarding the passage of the “Stop Iranian Drones Act" (SIDA), a bipartisan bill to address the growing threat of Iran’s lethal unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) program, out of Committee...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 10, 2021
News Release: KREMMLING, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will begin its annual winter restrictions on motorized travel in Grand and Jackson counties beginning Dec. 15, which continue through April 15 in most areas. The restrictions help reduce stress on wintering big game herds and prevent road damage.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Bronx, N.Y. man was sentenced on Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021 in federal court in Boston for fentanyl distribution.
By State Newswire | Dec 10, 2021
News Release: The following is the text of a joint statement signed by the governments of Australia, Denmark, Norway, and the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Middlesex County, New Jersey, man and woman and a New York man were arrested today and charged for their alleged roles in a fraud committed in connection with unemployment insurance benefits, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2021
News Release: Store clerk was shot and killed during the robbery.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 10, 2021
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking public comments on a proposed land acquisition of 275-acres located 5 miles east of downtown Boise. The parcel has been offered to the BLM by a private landowner and its purchase would help maintain open space in the Boise Foothills, preserve intact big game winter range and enhance protection of wildlife habitat and recreational values. Purchasing funds would come from the Land and Water Conservation Fund.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 10, 2021
News Release: Glen Jean, WV - The National Park Service announces that, due to population decline, ramp (also known as wild leeks) harvesting will no longer be allowed within New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, Gauley River National Recreation Area, and Bluestone National Scenic River. Changes will take effect on Jan. 1, 2022.
