News from December 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice announced today 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. In the Northern District of West Virginia, an award of $86,763 was made to enhance the prosecution of gun crimes occurring in Hancock County, Brooke County and Ohio County.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: Russian National Sentenced for Providing Crypting Service for Kelihos Botnet.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: $76,617 awarded to fiscal agent in the Southern District of West Virginia.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and every Republican Member of the Education and Labor Committee sent a letter to Department of Labor (DOL) Secretary Marty Walsh expressing strong opposition to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) authoritarian vaccination-and-testing diktat. The letter urges the DOL to withdraw the deeply flawed and unlawful emergency temporary standard (ETS).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A federal grand jury in Pittsburgh has returned an Indictment following a five-month long Title III wiretap investigation into a drug trafficking organization. The indictment charges 16 individuals residing across five states - Pennsylvania, Georgia, California, Virginia, and Michigan - with violations of federal drug laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: Memphis, TN - The Department of Justice announced today 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 Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration was awarded $ 172,929, to administer PSN grant funds in the Western District of Tennessee.
By State Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
Release: The Ortega-Murillo regime has announced it has severed diplomatic relations and ended official contact with Taiwan, but the sham election on November 7 did not provide it with any mandate to remove Nicaragua from the family of American democracies. Without the mandate that comes with a free and fair...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Deborah Cross, 65, of Sanford, Maine pleaded guilty on Wednesday in federal court to distributing methamphetamine, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that two Sully County, South Dakota, men have been indicted by a federal grand jury for False Statement in Connection with Federal Crop Insurance and Major Fraud Against the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - The domestic partner of a soldier stationed at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, was sentenced in federal court today for strangling and assaulting her in their home.
By State Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
Release: More information about the Marshall Islands is available on the Marshall Islands country page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: Dear Secretaries Mayorkas and Blinken and Postmaster General DeJoy...
By David Beasley | Dec 9, 2021
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $4.6 million in grants to help reduce diesel emissions in New England, a news release said.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $3.3 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the White Mountain Apache Community Development Corporation, Pinetop, Arizona, to improve the White Mountain Apache Timber Company (WMATCO) sawmill in Whiteriver.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced that Darek Lathan, 52, of Toledo, Ohio, was sentenced on Dec. 8, 2021, to 235 months, about 19 and a half years, in prison by Judge George Caram Steeh, Eastern District of Michigan, after a jury found Lathan guilty of felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: ABINGDON, Va. - An Abingdon, Virginia man who stole hundreds of pieces of mail from over 100 different addresses in the Abingdon area, including a check he altered and cashed at a local bank, pleaded guilty today to related charges.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: Getting quickly to the scene of a hazardous material (HAZMAT) incident is critical-whether it’s an oil spill or release of chemical, biological, or radiological materials.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A federal court on Dec. 1 found Carlos Ortiz, 28, of Las Vegas, New Mexico, guilty of illegally guiding a bighorn sheep hunt in the Carson National Forest. On December 8, the court sentenced Ortiz to a year and a half of probation and fined him $7,600.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: Used shell companies to hide income and create phony business expenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.
