News from December 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Richard G. Frohling of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that on Dec. 20, 2021, a man received a prison sentence for his actions in shooting another man on the Menominee Indian Reservation. Menom L. Powless-Brown (age: 19), formerly of Keshena, which is on the Menominee...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: HAMMOND- Daniel Urquiza, 46, of Burr Ridge, Illinois, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge Jon E. DeGuilio today following his June 2021 guilty plea for evading assessment of federal income taxes, announced United States Attorney Clifford D. Johnson.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: WINNEMUCCA, Nev. - With colder weather approaching, people may start thinking about gathering firewood. Firewood permits, required to gather firewood from public lands, cover woodcutting on lands managed by the Bureau of Land management in the Winnemucca District which includes Humboldt and Pershing...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Kidnapping, Assault with a Dangerous Weapon, Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury, Obstruction of Justice, Assault Resulting in Substantial Bodily Injury to an Intimate Partner, and Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding A Federal Officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown announced that Casey Michael Taylor, 35, of Arcadia, Louisiana, has been sentenced by United States District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote for illegal possession of firearms.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the 21 public utility commissions that will receive technical assistance from the National Laboratories to help state regulators make decisions and develop innovative solutions to improve grid reliability and resiliency, enable the adoption of new technologies, promote energy and environmental justice, and develop strategies to decarbonize their electric grids.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
Release: PHILADELPHIA - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is prepared for holiday travelers who are planning to fly out of Philadelphia International Airport during the Christmas and New Year holidays as passenger volume is expected to increase during the end-of-year travel period.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management has scheduled two virtual public meetings to gather input on issues to consider while it evaluates the need to update range-wide management plans for sagebrush habitat adopted in 2015 and amended in 2019. The agency recently announced its intent to consider amending the plans, which guide management actions for protecting the long-term health of greater sage-grouse populations in 10 Western states.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: Global Banking and Financial Services Firm to Pay $35 Million in Fine, Restitution, and Forfeiture.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo today announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding American Rescue Plan statewide planning grants to five territories to support territory-wide economic development planning efforts.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: Earlier today at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Deovaldo Gutierrez Alfaro, also known as “Leoba," was sentenced by United States District Judge Carol Bagley Amon to 60 months’ imprisonment for his participation in a large-scale international narcotics distribution conspiracy. The defendant was arrested in Nayarit, Mexico in March 2019 and extradited to the United States in November 2019. Alfaro pleaded guilty in June 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Calvin Crockett Mullins, of Philippi, West Virginia, has admitted to a firearms charge, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: ST. PAUL, Minn. - An Isanti County man has been sentenced to 288 months in prison followed by 25 years of supervised release for producing child pornography.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: EM senior leader Dae Chung has been awarded a prestigious Presidential Rank Award presented to the highest performing senior career federal executives.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- FEMA announced that federal disaster assistance has been made available to the state of Alabama to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by severe storms and flooding from October 6-7, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: North Carolina Business Owner Pleads Guilty to Filing False Tax Return.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Tyler Amon, Special Agent in Charge of EPA’s Criminal Investigation Division for New England, and Commissioner Katie Scharf Dykes of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection announced that MARMON...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: This fall, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM) completed a reclamation project to protect the Dolores River by addressing sedimentation issues near the historic Burro Mines Complex in San Miguel County, Colorado. The Burro Mines Complex was operational periodically between 1948 and the 1980s.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Unruly airline passengers may face additional consequences for bad behavior under a new partnership between the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) released the following statement on the retirement of Representative Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA-40), Chairwoman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security.
