News from December 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 24, 2021
News Release: The former Chair of Harvard University’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department was convicted by a federal jury today in connection with lying to federal authorities about his affiliation with the People’s Republic of China’s Thousand Talents Program and the Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in Wuhan, China, as well as failing to report income he received from WUT.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 24, 2021
News Release: Today, the Department of Justice announced a global resolution of its criminal and civil investigations into Balfour Beatty Communities LLC (BBC), one of the largest providers of privatized military housing to the U.S. Armed Forces, for defrauding the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, and U.S. Navy, in connection with a scheme to defraud the U.S. military.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 24, 2021
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By Press release submission | Dec 24, 2021
A workplace safety investigation into the June death in Neville Island of a 19-year-old roofing worker who fell 30 feet through an unprotected skylight found two commercial contractors willfully failed to use fall protection systems that might have saved his life.
By Press release submission | Dec 24, 2021
A federal court in the Eastern District of Louisiana has permanently enjoined a Hammond tax return preparer from preparing federal income tax returns for others and from owning or operating any tax return business in the future.According to the court order entered Dec. 20, Kenisha Callahan consented to entry of the injunction.
By Press release submission | Dec 24, 2021
Two FEMA additional mobile registration centers are now open in Hickman and Munfordville to help tornado survivors apply for federal assistance. The mobile unit in Dawson Springs has moved to a new location.
By Press release submission | Dec 24, 2021
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is finalizing the most ambitious federal greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards for passenger cars and light trucks ever.
By Press release submission | Dec 24, 2021
On Friday, December 17th, U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm traveled to Sacramento, California to amplify how the historic climate investments of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and President Biden’s Build Back Better Agenda will help lower energy costs,
By Press release submission | Dec 24, 2021
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland visited South Dakota on Friday, where she highlighted the Biden-Harris administration’s commitments to strengthening Tribal communities, protecting our public lands, and investing in the nation’s infrastructure.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
News Release: BATON ROUGE, La. - Survivors have a few more days to visit the FEMA Disaster Recovery Center at the Alario Center in Westwego. The center will close permanently at 4 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 29. Prior to its final closure, the center will close for the holidays from Dec. 23 to 26. It reopens for its final three days from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday, Dec. 27.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
News Release: DENVER - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces that Omar Rivas-Saenz, age 31, of Denver, was sentenced to 176 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, fentanyl, and heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
News Release: Balfour Beatty Communities to pay more than $65 million in fines, restitution for fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that on Dec. 22, 2021, TERRENCE ROLLINS, age 41, a resident of New Orleans, was sentenced in the United States District Court after pleading guilty to a two count Superseding Indictment charging him with possession with the intent to distribute a quantity of heroin, cocaine, and cocaine base and possession of firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
News Release: St. Croix, USVI -United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert for the District of the Virgin Islands announced that Stephanie Barnes, a 62 year-old resident of St. Croix, was convicted of three federal and local criminal charges today following a three-week jury trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
News Release: The Department of Justice today announced nearly $126 million in funding to advance school safety under the STOP School Violence Act. The grants, awarded by the Office of Justice Programs’ (OJP) Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) and the department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS...
By State Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement regarding President Biden signing H.R. 6256 into law...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Gregory Diaz, 34, of Farmington, New Mexico, was sentenced in federal court on Dec. 14 to three years and one month in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. Diaz pleaded guilty on May 12.
