News from December 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2021
News Release: Iowa Man Pleads Guilty to Selling Misbranded Vitamin B12 Injectables.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 8, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties held a hearing to examine the need for civil asset forfeiture reform. In her opening statement, Subcommittee Ranking Member Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) emphasized civil asset forfeiture creates a “seize-first, ask questions later" incentive for authorities and too often subverts an individual’s right of due process.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2021
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - A Maryland man was sentenced today to 170 months in prison for possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2021
News Release: Previously convicted of manufacturing methamphetamine. A Cedar Rapids man who possessed an AR-15 style rifle was sentenced December 7, 2021, to two years in federal prison. John Douglas Clark, age 61, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, received the prison term after a July 9, 2021 guilty plea to one-count of...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 8, 2021
News Release: On Wednesday, December 8, 2021, at approximately 10:15 a.m. MT, a National Park Service law enforcement ranger was involved in a shooting with two suspects near the Fall River Entrance within Rocky Mountain National Park. The two suspects were reported to be involved in a vehicular pursuit earlier that...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 8, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after meeting with United Kingdom Secretary of State for International Trade Anne-Marie Trevelyan...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - The United States Senate has confirmed Rachael S. Rollins as the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts. Ms. Rollins is the first Black woman to ever be confirmed as U.S. Attorney in the District. She was nominated by President Joseph R. Biden on July 26, 2021. The District of Massachusetts is one of the oldest United States Attorney’s Offices in the country.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 8, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - National Park Service (NPS) special agents with the Investigative Services Branch are working to identify potential female victims of surreptitious recordings taken in bathroom facilities in the backcountry of Grand Canyon National Park.
By State Newswire | Dec 8, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening statement, as prepared, during the markup of H.R. 5796, the Patents for Humanity Act of 2021...
By State Newswire | Dec 8, 2021
Release: Today, the United States and Iceland held the third bilateral Economic Partnership Dialogue, led by Economic and Business Affairs Senior Bureau Official Matt Murray and Icelandic Director General for External Trade and Economic Affairs Ragnar Kristjánsson. The United States and Iceland jointly addressed...
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 8, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) released the following statement after receiving a response to the letter he sent along with Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) on December 1st to Airlines for America requesting clarity on how airlines are managing payroll support program (PSP) funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Brian Perez, 31, of Salem, pleaded guilty on Tuesday in federal court to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 8, 2021
Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is looking to hire full- and part-time TSA officers at Pittsburgh International Airport within the next few months. The agency is offering a $1,000 hiring bonus for new hires--$500 upon starting and an additional $500 bonus after one year of service within TSA.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2021
News Release: LAS VEGAS - A Las Vegas man was sentenced today to 78 months in prison for stealing credit and debit card account numbers and profile information to spend on Las Vegas Strip show tickets and gift certificates, totaling over $500,000.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 8, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - An investigation led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigation’s (HSI) Washington D.C. Field Office and Defense Criminal Investigative Service’s (DCIS) Mid-Atlantic Field Office led an investigation of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IGRC) ...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 8, 2021
News Release: Dems Can’t Spend $5 Trillion Over the Decade and Not Spur Inflation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Jan Sharp announced that Jeffrey Fox, age 51, of Plattsmouth, Nebraska, was sentenced today in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska, for transportation of child pornography. United States District Judge Brian C. Buescher sentenced Fox to 66 months of imprisonment and a $20,000 fine. There is no parole in the federal system. After completing his term of imprisonment, Fox will begin a 5-year term of supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 8, 2021
News Release: Saint Simons Island (GA): Fort Frederica National Monument and the Friends of Fort Frederica welcome you to a celebration of General James Oglethorpe’s birthday on Saturday, December 11 from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm. This continues the tradition of celebrating the leading figure of the new colony of Georgia, General James Edward Oglethorpe as he was historically honored on his birthday in the young settlements of the colony.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Erek L. Barron; Special Agent in Charge Thomas J. Sobocinski of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Baltimore Field Office; Colonel Woodrow W. Jones III, Superintendent of the Maryland State Police; and Dorchester County State’s Attorney William H. Jones and Caroline County State’s Attorney Joe Riley provided the following statement regarding the investigation of Jonathan Newell.
