News from December 2021
By USDA Newswire | Dec 3, 2021
Release: Effective Dec. 17, 2021, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is removing the light brown apple moth (LBAM), Epiphyas postvittana, quarantine in California and Hawaii. APHIS is reclassifying LBAM as a non-quarantine pest, removing all areas under quarantine, and removing movement ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2021
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY), along with Kristen Clarke, Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, announced today that the Justice Department has opened a pattern or practice investigation into the Mount...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2021
News Release: U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced that a federal jury today returned a guilty verdict against Defendant Lon R. Sweeney, 56, of Cleveland, Ohio, following a four-day trial before Judge Dan Aaron Polster in Cleveland. Sweeney was convicted of threatening a federal employee and acquitted of assault of an officer.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 3, 2021
News Release: WINNEMUCCA, Nev. - On or around Dec. 10, 2021, the Black Rock Field Office (BRFO) will begin a wild horse gather in and around the Fox and Lake Range Herd Management Area (HMA) located in central Washoe County, approximately 60 miles north of Reno, Nevada. The Fox-Lake range consists of 172,692 acres of BLM land and 5,032 acres of a mix of private and other public lands for a total of 177,724 acres.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Virginia man was charged in an indictment unsealed today for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 3, 2021
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC), and Early Childhood, Elementary, Secondary Education Subcommittee Republican Leader Burgess Owens (R-UT), and Civil Rights and Human Services Subcommittee Republican Leader Russ Fulcher (R-ID) sent a letter to Department of ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Susan A. Gibson and Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Rachael A. Honig announced a nonprofit healthcare system that owns and operates a network of healthcare entities has agreed to pay $150,000 to resolve allegations that it violated the Controlled Substances Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2021
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Monmouth County, New Jersey, man today admitted distributing cocaine in Monmouth County and conspiring to illegally sell firearms, including multiple handguns and a semi-automatic rifle, in and around Monmouth and Ocean counties, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By State Newswire | Dec 3, 2021
Release: The following is the text of a joint press release by the U.S. Department of State and the European External Action Service.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 3, 2021
News Release: CHEROKEE- On Monday, December 6, 2021, Colbert Ferry, Milepost 327.3, on Natchez Trace Parkway, will close for paving. The Colbert Ferry boat ramp area and access roads will be closed for one week while construction crews pave the area. The comfort station nearest to the Parkway will remain open.
By State Newswire | Dec 3, 2021
Release: The United States and Kenya held the first U.S.-Kenya Cyber Dialogue convened under the U.S.-Kenya Bilateral Strategic Dialogue on December 1. The Department of State’s Acting Coordinator for Cyber Issues Michele Markoff led the U.S. delegation, which also included participants from the Department of...
By State Newswire | Dec 3, 2021
Release: The Kingdom of Belgium and the United States hosted a meeting of senior diplomatic representatives from the Small Group of the Global Coalition to Defeat Daesh/ISIS yesterday in Brussels. Belgian Deputy Prime-Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sophie Wilmès, and U.S. Acting Special Envoy for the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2021
News Release: Civil Enforcement Actions Also Underway. NASHVILLE - Charging documents unsealed yesterday charge six more individuals in relation to a massive opioid distribution and health care fraud conspiracy orchestrated from pharmacies in Celina, Tennessee, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Mark H. Wildasin for the...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By State Newswire | Dec 3, 2021
News Release: Dear Secretary Blinken: The U.S.-Sri Lanka relationship is a critical one for U.S. foreign policy and national security interests in the Indo-Pacific region. Sri Lanka faces several challenges - from an impending financial crisis to an unresolved ethnic conflict - that could affect long-term stability.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 3, 2021
News Release: LAS VEGAS, NV- The Las Vegas Field Office announces the temporary closure of certain public lands under its administration from December 11 through Dec. 12, 2021. This action is being taken to minimize the risk of potential collisions between racers and spectators for the 2021 SNORE Laughlin Rage at the River OHV Race.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 3, 2021
The US Agriculture Department published a three page notice on Dec. 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2021
News Release: AUSTIN - A Waco man was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for the sexual exploitation of children.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Michael McDonald, age 40, of Baltimore, Maryland, for tax evasion for tax years 2016 through 2018 and failure to file tax returns for the tax years 2016 through 2019. The indictment was returned on Nov. 10, 2021, and unsealed today upon McDonald’s arrest. McDonald will have an initial appearance today at 1:30 p.m. in U.S. District Court in Baltimore before U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark Coulson.
By State Newswire | Dec 3, 2021
Release: President Biden today signed the updated National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking. The National Action Plan outlines a three-year comprehensive approach to combat human trafficking, including actions to strengthen prosecution of traffickers, enhance victim protections, and prevent the crime from occurring within our borders and abroad.
