News from December 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A New York man was sentenced today two consecutive terms of life in prison for the murders of two men in Newport News in June and July 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
News Release: A man who received COVID-19 relief funds that he was not entitled to and unlawfully possessed firearms was sentenced Nov. 29, 2021, to more than seven years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
News Release: Memphis, TN - Carrefour Associates LLC; Crossroads Hospice of Cincinnati LLC; Crossroads Hospice of Cleveland LLC; Crossroads Hospice of Dayton LLC; Crossroads Hospice of Northeast Ohio LLC; and Crossroads Hospice of Tennessee LLC ("Crossroads Hospice"), operating in Ohio and Tennessee, have agreed to pay $5.5 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by submitting claims to Medicare for non-covered hospice services.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Jen Easterly, Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced the appointment of the first 23 members of the Agency’s new Cybersecurity Advisory Committee, a group that will advise and provide recommendations to the Director on policies, programs, planning, and training to enhance the nation’s cyber defense.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that BRYANT BROWN, a/k/a “Trigga," was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer yesterday to 24 years in prison for the December 2015 murder of Albendris Nunez and a 2017 armed robbery.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
News Release: (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, gave a speech on the Senate floor on the Supreme Court hearing oral arguments in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization-a direct challenge to Roe...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
News Release: Memphis, TN - U.S. Marshal Tyreece Miller announces the arrest of Alfred Robinson, 28, for First Degree Murder and Chekora Momon, 22, for Facilitation of First Degree Murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina --- Acting United States Attorney M. Rhett DeHart announced today that Roudy Pierre-Louis, 49, a citizen of Haiti and former State Department employee, was sentenced to more than a year in federal prison after pleading guilty to committing Wire Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Barbara Ann Thomas, of Moorefield, West Virginia, has admitted to a drug charge, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - An Ash Grove, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing 10 firearms, three of which were stolen during his burglary of a neighbor’s house.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Gavin Potter, 21, Eau Claire, Wisconsin was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 4 years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. The prison term will be followed by 3 years of supervised release. Potter pleaded guilty to this charge on Sept. 14, 2021.
By Press Release | Dec 1, 2021
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and collaborators confirmed the presence of a newly described Eriophyid mite, a potential biological control agent for the invasive tree-of-heaven, in France.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
News Release: Maryland Woman Also Charged with Fraud and Receiving Stolen Property.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
News Release: The Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration (MDOT SHA) is seeking public comment on proposed repairs to the James Rumsey Bridge (MD 34) over the Potomac River and C&O Canal between Sharpsburg, MD and Shepherdstown, WV for the next 15 days.
By State Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
Release: On Thursday, U.S.-EU discussions will focus on key areas for our cooperation, including on economic and technology issues, human rights, multilateralism, disinformation, security, and how we pursue results-oriented cooperation with the PRC where our interests align. A joint statement will be released...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis Holmes announced that a Harrold, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault Resulting in Substantial Bodily Injury to an Intimate Partner was sentenced on Nov. 29, 2021, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
There were eight press releases published by the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions in November 2021.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
News Release: TARRYTOWN, NY - Three federal safety inspections at a Suffern condominium complex confirmed a Rockland County roofing contractor repeatedly exposed residential roof workers to potentially deadly falls from heights of 18 to 20 feet.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Dewey K. Sims, age 33, of Albany, was sentenced yesterday to 33 months in prison and three years of post-release supervision for unlawfully possessing a loaded.25 caliber pistol as a felon.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) delivered the following remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the full Committee hearing on AmeriCorps’ latest failed audit...
