News from December 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
News Release: MADISON, Wis. - John G. McGarry, Assistant Special Agent in Charge for U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration-Wisconsin, and Timothy M. O’Shea, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Larry Cole, 41, of Painsdale, Michigan, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that HECTOR RODRIGUEZ-RODRIGUEZ, age 55, pleaded guilty on Nov. 30, 2021 to reentry of a deported alien previously convicted of a felony, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a) and (b)(2).
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.--Nearly six months after ProPublica began disclosing confidential, private and legally-protected taxpayer information, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Biden Administration continue to show little regard about the haphazard handling of private taxpayer data. ProPublica unabatedly...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
News Release: COTTONWOOD, Idaho - Beginning Dec. 6, the Bureau of Land Management’s Old Lucile recreation site and boat launch, located 8 miles north of Riggins, ID, will be temporarily closed as boat ramp improvements get underway. The BLM anticipates the closure to extend through Jan. 14, 2022, although the site will reopen sooner if work is completed ahead of schedule.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
News Release: Miami, Florida - Today, a South Florida federal district judge sentenced three men from different parts of the country to federal prison terms for their roles in a conspiracy to defraud companies by issuing worthless bonds to insure large-scale construction projects. A fourth defendant was sentenced earlier this year.
By State Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
News Release: Thirty-one years ago, the bipartisan passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) enshrined our commitment to building a better Nation for all of us. In the years since, we have made profound progress to advance the rights, opportunities, full participation, and economic self-sufficiency of people...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A federal jury returned a guilty verdict on Dec. 1 in the trial of Jesse Barela, 35, of Albuquerque. Barela will remain in custody pending sentencing, which has not been scheduled.
By State Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
Release: The following is the Joint Statement on the Syria Special Envoy Meeting.
By State Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
Release: Good afternoon. My name is Karen Chandler, and I am the Director of the Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement (or WRA) within the State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs. I am honored to participate in today’s UXO Caucus event.
By Timothy Stuckey | Dec 2, 2021
Researchers from the Agricultural Research Service's Bee Research Laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland have recently discovered several natural chemicals that enhanced the health of bees, according to a USDA press release.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
News Release: This Secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans. Emergency loans can be used to meet various recovery needs including...
By State Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
Release: QUESTION: So Secretary, thank you very much for this interview, but let me go straight forward to the current hot topic, which is, of course, Russia. You said there is evidence for Russian plans over invading Ukraine. So how close we are to military confrontation?
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
News Release: BANGOR, Maine: An Orono man pleaded guilty today in federal court to possessing an unregistered firearm, U.S. Attorney Darcie N. McElwee announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $3 million grant to the Inland Valley Development Agency (IVDA), San Bernardino, California, to make improvements to supply chain and transportation infrastructure.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture will begin issuing final pandemic assistance payments to timber harvesters and timber hauling businesses through the Pandemic Assistance for Timber Harvesters and Haulers (PATHH) program starting next week. In total, $200 million will be provided to loggers...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
News Release: Miami, Florida - A California tobacco company executive was sentenced to 60 months’ imprisonment yesterday for his participation in a fraudulent scheme to avoid the payment of millions of dollars in excise taxes on imported tobacco products.
By State Newswire | Dec 2, 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 DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
News Release: MONROE, La. - Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that two men from North Louisiana were sentenced yesterday by United States District Judge Terry A. Doughty.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Jacob Fulton, 33, of Coatesville, PA, was sentenced to one year and six months in prison, five years of supervised release, and ordered to pay full restitution by United States District Judge Eduardo C. Robreno for falsely claiming and taking approximately $32,000 in pandemic unemployment compensation authorized by the CARES Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Puerto Rican man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Worcester to his role in a wide-ranging fentanyl, heroin, crack and cocaine trafficking conspiracy.
