News from December 2021

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA- A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to distribute marijuana, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A Pendleton, Oregon man was sentenced to federal prison today for shooting a family member with a semi-automatic pistol and distributing methamphetamine.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
News Release: Romano McCain Illegally Possessed a Handgun and Ammunition, and Threatened to Kill Two Men and a Baby.

By Homeland Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, convened a roundtable with government and industry experts to discuss bipartisan legislation he authored to update and make permanent the Federal Risk and Authorization Management...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - At a Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee roundtable titled “FedRAMP Reform: Recommendations to Reduce Burden, Enhance Security, and Address Inefficiencies in the Government Cloud Authorization Process," experts agreed with U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member...

By Commerce Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
News Release: Washington D.C. -Today, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, held a hearing to examine actions the federal government must take to recruit and retain the next generation of public servants.

By Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - With the signing of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law by President Biden, Reclamation takes on a new opportunity to invest in our infrastructure and benefit the American public for the next generation.

By Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) awarded a $5.4 million construction contract to rehabilitate the historic Sheriff’s House at First State National Historical Park in Delaware. The Sheriff’s House is a contributing feature to the New Castle National Historic Landmark Historic District and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

By Commerce Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Commerce Department has established a high-level committee to advise the United States government on matters related to microelectronics research, development, manufacturing and policy and is now seeking to recruit top-level candidates to serve on the committee.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), along with Senators Steve Daines (R-MT), Jim Risch (R-ID), Mike Lee (R-UT), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), John Hoeven (R-ND), James Lankford (R-OK), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), Roger Marshall (R-KS), and Kevin Cramer (R-ND) introduced S.3287, the Strategic Production Response (SPR) Act, to prioritize American energy production.

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 Benjamin T. Mann, 40, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 6 years in prison followed by 15 years of supervised release for distributing child pornography. Mann pleaded guilty to this charge on September 9, 2021.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - A Pekin, Illinois, man, Daniel W. Dawe, 48, of the 1600 block of Crescent Drive has been sentenced to 12 years and 7 months in the Bureau of Prisons, to be followed by 8 years of supervised release for possession of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute.

By State Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
There were 46 press releases or notices published by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs in November 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
News Release: A Tulsa man who possessed more than 600 images of child pornography was sentenced in federal court, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.

By Commerce Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today announced the beginning of data collection for phase 3.3 of the experimental Household Pulse Survey (HPS). The HPS is now a monthly release as current changes in data no longer warrant a biweekly data collection, and we work to reduce respondent burden. This phase includes...

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Bob Murray announced today that ANTHONY PIERCE UNOCIC, age 52, of Cheyenne, Wyoming was arrested on a complaint and later indicted for being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition and for possession of a firearm not registered in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was sentenced in federal court on a charge of obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Union County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 70 months in prison for receiving images of child sexual abuse, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Donyell Williams, 27, of Michigan, who was convicted of high-speed flight from an immigration checkpoint, was sentenced to serve six months home confinement and two years’ probation by U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra, Jr.

By Commerce Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
There were 16 press releases published by the United States Senate Committee on Finance in November 2021.