News from December 2021
By Press release submission | Dec 22, 2021
Online background report company MyLife.com Inc. (MyLife) and its founder and chief executive officer, Jeffrey Tinsley, have agreed to pay $21 million in consumer redress and to injunctive relief that would require them to comply with the Federal Trade Commission Act (FTC Act), the Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR), the Restore Online Shoppers Confidence Act (ROSCA) and the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) in all current and future business activities.
By Press release submission | Dec 22, 2021
Effective December 20, 2021, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) personnel at all U.S. ports of entry will detain disposable gloves produced in Malaysia by Brightway Holdings Sdn Bhd, Laglove (M) Sdn Bhd, and Biopro (M) Sdn Bhd (collectively, Brightway Group).
By Press release submission | Dec 22, 2021
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $549,940 in research funding to the University of California-Berkeley to create an action plan for effective communication of wildland fire smoke exposure threats to at-risk San Francisco Bay Area communities.
By Press release submission | Dec 22, 2021
The Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear (GAIN) awarded vouchers today to Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (Seattle, WA) and Framatome Inc. (Lynchburg, VA) to accelerate the development of their advanced nuclear technologies.
By Press release submission | Dec 22, 2021
In November, the U.S. Census Bureau announced it would delay the release of the 2016-2020 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year data, originally scheduled for December 2021, due to the impacts of COVID-19 on data collection.
By Press release submission | Dec 22, 2021
The Bureau of Land Management’s Shoshone Field Office implements new off-highway-vehicle and conditional seasonal restrictions in the Wood River Valley to minimize impacts to wintering deer and elk.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Alex R. Lee, of Moundsville, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 14 months of incarceration for a methamphetamine charge, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 28 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to commit bank fraud, including by soliciting U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employees to steal check books and credit cards from the mail, depositing fraudulent checks, including pandemic relief checks, and using stolen credit cards without authorization, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: Miami, Florida - Drug trafficker, Pablo Alexander Reyes-Sanchez, a 33-year-old Mexican national, was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Miami to 97 months in prison by Chief United States District Court Cecilia M. Altonaga.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A former member of the St. James/Marcella gang was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for distributing crack cocaine on multiple occasions to a cooperating witness.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Zachary Price, of Flushing, Ohio, was sentenced today to 33 months of incarceration for drug distribution, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today released new population estimates and projections and other demographic data up to the year 2100 for 30 countries and areas in the International Database (IDB).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Brazilian national pleaded guilty on Friday, Dec. 17, 2021 in connection with a nationwide conspiracy to open fraudulent driver accounts with rideshare and delivery service companies.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Barnstable man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with selling four “ghost guns" to an undercover agent.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
Release: BOSTON - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officials at Boston Logan International Airport (BOS) spent Tuesday morning demonstrating and describing how to properly travel with a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The Charlotte Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives today called on ATF’s National Response Team to begin a joint investigation of a major structural fire at a QVC distribution center in North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: NatWest Markets Pleads Guilty to Fraud in U.S. Treasury Markets.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - On Dec. 16, 2021, United States District Judge Susie Morgan sentenced ROMALIS HARRIS, to eighty (80) months in the Bureau of Prisons for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine base, and use of a communication facility, a telephone, during the commission of a drug trafficking crime, in violation of the Federal Controlled Substances Act, announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Act authorizes the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration to issue subpoenas to request necessary documents as part of an OSHA inspection. If a recipient fails to comply, the department may then move to enforce the subpoena...
