News from December 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2021
News Release: DAYTON - A Dayton man pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today for his role in the summer 2019 kidnapping and subsequent death of Kwasi Casey, whose body was later found in a detached garage on Fountain Ave. in Dayton.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - The principal of a Connecticut environmental consulting firm pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Springfield in connection with paying bribes to procure consulting contracts at educational institutions in Massachusetts and New York.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 22, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), joined by 22 committee ranking members, called on Speaker Nancy Pelosi to immediately reopen the U.S. Capitol complex to the American people. For close to two years, the U.S. Capitol and congressional office buildings have been closed to the public.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2021
News Release: LAS VEGAS - A Las Vegas man was sentenced today to 188 months in prison for coercing two children, who were step-siblings, to create images of themselves appearing to commit sexual acts with each other and to send those images using various video and instant messaging applications.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 22, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following statement after the Department of Justice announced that Charles Lieber, the former chair of Harvard University’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Charlestown man who has been living under a false identity pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to charges arising from his use of the name and Social Security number of a U.S. citizen.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2021
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Billy Lorenzo Bush, age 37, of Capitol Heights, Maryland, pleaded guilty on Dec. 20, 2021 to possession with intent to distribute controlled substances and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2021
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Corey F. Ellis as Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina today, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 546.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2021
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Michael F. Easley, Jr. today announced $1,199,747 in a Department of Justice grant was awarded to the Wake County Sheriff’s Office’s Opioid Abuse Management Program. The grant was awarded by the Department’s Bureau of Justice Assistance.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2021
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A federal jury convicted Rafael “Raphy" Pina-Nieves today for firearms violations being a convicted felon and possession of a machinegun. The sentencing was scheduled for April 1st, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2021
News Release: The Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP) today announced grant awards totaling more than $300 million to help combat America’s substance use crisis, which has worsened during the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2021
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Cindy McAleese, age 55, of Dexter, New York, was arraigned today on a one-count indictment charging her with conspiring to commit an offense against the United States by seeking and accepting gratuities.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 22, 2021
News Release: On Tuesday, Dec. 21, at approximately 8:04 a.m., the Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center received a report of an overdue hiker in the vicinity of the Boucher Trail within Grand Canyon National Park.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 22, 2021
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Fla. - Everglades National Park is pleased to announce the outdoor art exhibition Wild Observations in Everglades National Park by conservation artist Deborah Mitchell. Exploring changes in wildlife corridors and combining scientific research with artistic interpretation, the mixed media work is focused on ecological and cultural changes occurring in our wild places.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2021
News Release: A Fort Worth man has been named a co-conspirator in retired FBI agent William Stone’s alleged scheme to con a local mother out of more than $700,000 by convincing her she was on “secret probation," U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2021
News Release: The Defendants Allegedly Continued To Distribute Synthetic Cannabinoids After Four Co-Conspirators Were Arrested.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 22, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - According to the Rutgers University’s Center for Urban Policy Research, the Federal Historic Preservation Tax Incentives Program contributed more than $13.8 billion in output in terms of goods and services to the U.S. economy, generated approximately 122,000 jobs, and added an overall $7...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2021
News Release: Taylor Energy Company LLC (Taylor Energy), a Louisiana oil and gas company, has agreed to turn over all its remaining assets to the United States upon liquidation to resolve its liability for the oil spill at its former Gulf of Mexico offshore oil production facility - the source of the longest-running oil spill in U.S. history, ongoing since 2004.
By State Newswire | Dec 22, 2021
Release: Al-Qa’ida and its regional affiliates continue to pose a threat to countries around the world. The United States is taking action today to stem the funding of this terrorist group by designating members of a Brazil-based network of al-Qa’ida-affiliated individuals and their companies as Specially Designated Global Terrorists.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ROBERT C. HARRINGTON, 55, of Milford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 72 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for trading child sex abuse images on the internet.
