News from December 2021
By State Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
Release: “We strongly support the OSCE Chair’s efforts to make progress on the region’s peace and security. Sweden can count on the U.S. as a partner to advance OSCE principles."
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANDRES BARCLETT, also known as “Coolie," 27, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 15 months of imprisonment, followed by two years of supervised release, for participating in an extensive commercial larceny spree.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Sturgis, South Dakota, man convicted of Attempted Receipt of Child Pornography was sentenced on Nov. 22, 2021, by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey L. Viken.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
News Release: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) today announced that T. Hunter Presti has been named Republican staff director of the Subcommittee on Aviation.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
Release: Private exporters reported sales of 150,000 metric tons of corn for delivery to Colombia during the 2021/2022 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
News Release: Miami, Florida - This week, Mark Gene George, 58, of Port St. Lucie, Florida, appeared in federal court in Fort Pierce and was sentenced to 27 months in prison after being convicted of possessing a firearm and ammunition while being a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A Providence man today admitted to a federal court judge that he fraudulently used another individual’s Social Security number to defraud the Rhode Island Medicaid Managed Care Program of more than $39,000, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Program of more than $7,000, and also used the number to obtain a Rhode Island identification card, announced Acting United States Attorney Richard B. Myrus.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that, earlier today, U.S. District Court Judge Sarah S. Vance sentenced defendant JILL LEWIS (“LEWIS"), age 41, resident of Madisonville, Louisiana, to six (6) months’ home confinement and two (2) years’ probation. LEWIS previously pleaded guilty to...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
There were 135 press releases published by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in November 2021.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
There were 53 press releases published by the House Committee on Education and Labor in November 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
News Release: Participated in the Conspiracy to Sell Stolen Apple Products Intended for Under Privileged Children; Allowed Friends to Sell More Than $3 Million in Stolen Goods on His eBay Account.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Dylan Michael Ward, of Hagerstown, Maryland, has admitted to a firearms conspiracy, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
News Release: Three former executives of Valley Bank, a defunct financial institution based in Moline, Illinois, and the President of Vital Financial Services (Vital Financial), a lending service provider, have pleaded guilty to scheming to defraud the Small Business Administration (SBA) in connection with its programs to guarantee loans made to small businesses.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.--Efforts to reimagine America as a welfare state, and to do so unilaterally through the budget reconciliation process, have revolved around an ever-changing menu of tax hikes guided not by sound tax policy, but by the revenue needed to pay for social spending. These reckless tax hike...
By State Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
Release: President Biden pledged to host a Summit for Democracy to reinforce our commitment to placing democracy and human rights at the center of U.S. foreign policy. It reflects President Biden’s deeply held belief that to tackle the world’s most pressing challenges, democracies must come together, learn together,...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
Release: The Government of South Korea has requested the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) to authorize the importation of Sweet Potato for consumption into the continental United States. APHIS has drafted a pest risk assessment that describes potential pests associated with this commodity.APHIS ...
By State Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Well, good afternoon, everyone. It’s a great pleasure, as always, to be here with my friend and colleague, Mevlüt. We’ve been sitting together for the last day and a half, and we both thought it was important to be able to compare notes directly on many things that we’ve already talked ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
News Release: BANGOR, Maine: A Hartland, Maine, man was sentenced today in federal court for conspiring to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute fentanyl and possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, U.S. Attorney Darcie N. McElwee announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Middlesex County, New Jersey, woman was sentenced today to 72 months in prison for orchestrating a $1.7 million bank fraud scheme that involved writing fraudulent business checks, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 1, 2021
News Release: PENSACOLA, Fla. - FEMA has approved a hazard mitigation grant of $1,612,448 for the city of Marianna to protect its Public Works building by reducing potential wind damage and ensuring the facility is operational during future power outages.
