News from December 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Sandy Springs, Georgia, man appeared in federal court today to face weapons charges after allegedly trying to get a firearm through security at Newark Liberty International Airport, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2021
News Release: ALBUQERQUE, N.M. - Juan Torres Flores, 23, of Albuquerque, pleaded guilty in federal court on Nov. 23 to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. Torres will remain in custody pending sentencing, which has not been scheduled.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 7, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the deadline for submissions for the DHS Cooling Solutions Challenge has been extended to Feb. 24, 2022.
By State Newswire | Dec 7, 2021
Release: United States Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL). Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): DRL FY2021: Supporting Local Organizations Working for Racial Justice in South America. This is the announcement of SFOP0008457. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 19.345...
By Zachary Richter | Dec 7, 2021
A federal indictment charging 24 individuals with human trafficking in relation to unauthorized workers in Georgia is the first under U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) new labor exploitation program.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2021
News Release: Spokane - Esther Rae Tuller, age 40, of Moses Lake, Washington, has pleaded guilty to tampering with morphine medication while working as a registered nurse. Chief United States District Judge Stanley A. Bastian accepted Tuller’s guilty plea and scheduled a sentencing hearing for March 17, 2022, in Spokane.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2021
News Release: Couple admit to paying $25,000 to facilitate cheating on their son's SAT exam.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 7, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- FEMA’s Ready Campaign and the Ad Council joined with Sony Pictures and their new film, “Ghostbusters: Afterlife" to promote the critical message of emergency preparedness.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2021
News Release: WILMINGTON, N.C. - A Sanford man pleaded guilty today for receiving bribes in his role as a flooring technician while employed at Ft. Bragg.
By State Newswire | Dec 7, 2021
Release: MR BARKER: (In progress) at this somewhat busy time. So we need to start, I think, on the tensions between Russia and Ukraine. Presidents Biden and Putin have just finished a virtual call. You’ve talked in the past about your deep concerns about Russia’s renewed plans for aggression in Ukraine with obviously a lot of troops massed at the border.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a New Hampshire resident and a Connecticut resident have been charged in separate criminal complaints with conspiracy and fraud offenses stemming from their alleged involvement in construction project fraud schemes.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2021
News Release: DURANGO - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces that McKean Walton, age 52, of Ignacio, Colorado, was sentenced to 13.5 years in federal prison, followed by 10 years of supervised release, and a $5,000 special assessment. Walton is the former Executive Officer of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe, headquartered in Ignacio, Colorado. Walton resigned from his position in September 2020, following his arrest in this matter.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2021
News Release: Two Universal Aryan Brotherhood influential gang members pleaded guilty Tuesday for conspiring to participate in a racketeering enterprise that committed acts of murder, kidnapping, the trafficking of methamphetamine and firearms, money laundering, assault, and robbery throughout the State of Oklahoma, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man pleaded guilty yesterday to his role in a wide-ranging cocaine trafficking conspiracy.
By Timothy Stuckey | Dec 7, 2021
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently advanced the deadline for public input on the COVID-19 vaccination and testing emergency temporary standard (ETS) to Jan. 19, 2022
By State Newswire | Dec 7, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2021
News Release: Tacoma- A 28-year-old citizen of Mexico was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to 46 months in prison for his drug-dealing activity in Western Washington, announced U.S. Attorney Nick Brown. Omar Arellano-Hernandez had traveled to the Pacific Northwest from Mexico and was staying at a Tukwila...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Richard Daniels Jr., 39, of Charleston, pleaded guilty today to a federal gun crime.
By State Newswire | Dec 7, 2021
Release: The United States applauds the Gambian people for ensuring their voices were heard in their presidential election on December 4. Gambians cast their votes with a turnout of nearly 90 percent of registered voters in a free and fair presidential election that was held peacefully. As was the case in December 2016, Gambians once again serve as an inspiration in their peaceful pursuit of representative governance and civic participation in the political process.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.--U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today led a press conference with Republican members on the budgetary gimmicks and job-killing tax hikes in the Democrats’ reckless tax-and-spend legislation, which do nothing to address supply chain issues, nor inflation and rising consumer prices.
