News from December 2021
By State Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: First of all, it’s so wonderful to see all of you. Thank you for being here. And to all of the - all of the wonderful singers - now, I assume they’re Foreign Service officers. (Laughter.)
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 State Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
Release: In coordination with international allies and partners, today we are taking additional measures to raise the cost on Alyaksandr Lukashenka and his regime for their ongoing attacks on democracy, human rights, and international norms, and for their brutal repression of Belarusians both inside and outside...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Kaleb Joseph Beals, of Silver Creek, Georgia, was sentenced today to 92 months of incarceration for a drug charge, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
News Release: Harrisburg, PA - Today, United States Marshal Martin J. Pane announced the arrest of Skylor Fickes, a 30-year-old man with no fixed address. Fickes was sought for...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Joshua Derek Raines, of Elkins, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 60 months of incarceration for a firearms charge, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - An Ipswich man who owned and operated numerous Massachusetts businesses pleaded guilty today in connection with charges that he manipulated his payroll to avoid paying taxes.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
News Release: As part of the recently passed Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, two new electric vehicle programs will receive funds to address climate change by reducing carbon emissions. The National Electric Vehicle Program or EV Charging Program will provide funding to the States to strategically deploy EV...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Dec. 1, 2021, James Henderson Bryant III, of Westminster, Maryland, was indicted by a federal grand jury for committing five bank robberies in Adams, Cumberland, and York Counties between July 19, 2021 and October 5, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Dallas, Texas, man was sentenced today to 144 months in prison for his role in orchestrating and operating a fraudulent scheme to sell medical-related business opportunities, causing a loss of more than $5 million, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Raleigh County man was sentenced today to 10 years in prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, for possession of 100 grams or more of heroin and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - A suburban Chicago woman has been arrested after she allegedly arranged for a child to engage in commercial sex acts with customers at hotels.
By State Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
Release: The text of the following statement was released by the United States of America, Canada, the European Union and the United Kingdom.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
News Release: ATLANTA - Dontavious Matthews and Quentin Truley have been sentenced for committing an armed robbery of a cell phone store in Brookhaven, Georgia. Truley was also sentenced for committing an armed robbery of a cell phone store in Lithonia, Georgia, 11 days later.
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 DOE Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $35 million in funding for twelve projects focused on developing technologies to reduce methane emissions in the oil, gas, and coal industries. DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) Reducing Emissions of Methane...
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today implemented a change to reduce noise over sensitive areas near Portland International JetPort.
By State Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
News Release: Robert Scott, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister Counselor, currently serves as a Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of African Affairs covering Peace and Security Affairs and Public Diplomacy/Public Affairs. He was previously the Ambassador of the United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
News Release: U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced that Jamie L. Casey, 34, of East Sparta, Ohio, was sentenced today by Judge J. Philip Calabrese to serve three days in prison, two years of post-release supervision and ordered to pay $102,822 in restitution to the Social Security Administration after Casey pleaded guilty to theft of government property in August of 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Mauricio Robles, 26, of Phoenix, Arizona, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Rosemary Marquez to 37 months in prison for attempting to smuggle ammunition from the United States into Mexico. The court previously sentenced Robles’ co-defendant, Arlando Torres, 36, of Texas, to 70 months in prison on Sept. 30, 2021.
