News from December 2021
By DOE Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
News Release: Throughout 2021, DOE’s emergency responders supported the U.S. energy sector through countless response and restoration efforts to protect and secure the energy supply that millions of Americans depend on every day.
By State Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
Release: We, the Foreign Ministers of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, and the United States Secretary of State, noting the outcome of the Legislative Council elections in Hong Kong, express our grave concern over the erosion of democratic elements of the Special Administrative Region’s electoral system. Actions that undermine Hong Kong’s rights, freedoms and high degree of autonomy are threatening our shared wish to see Hong Kong succeed.
By State Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Tyler Purvis-Mitchell, age 27, of Albany, was convicted on Friday of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine following a four-day jury trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Richard G. Frohling announced on Dec. 20, 2021, that the Eastern District of Wisconsin collected $10,974, 686.11 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2021. Of this amount, $4,795,841.29 was collected in criminal actions and $6,178,844.82 was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - A North Carolina man pleaded guilty today to filing a false tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
News Release: Bowling Green Man Arrested on Multiple Terrorism Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
News Release: HARRISBURG-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Ibrahim Adam, age 33, and Kelvin Aggrey-Arthur, age 28, both Ghanaian citizens, were sentenced to prison for conspiring to commit wire fraud. Adam was sentenced today to 33 months’ imprisonment by United...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
News Release: Damian Williams, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MARCUS CHAMBERS, 30, a/k/a “Chino," a/k/a “Chi D," a/k/a “SP," pled guilty today to participating in the murder of Jonathan Johnson, 21, on March 18, 2011, in White Plains, New York.
By Trina Thomas | Dec 20, 2021
U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh and Switzerland’s President Guy Parmelin signed a memorandum of understanding to expand apprenticeships among Swiss companies and Swiss-invested companies in the U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021, Tonia Sue White, age 41, of Des Moines, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger to 188 months in prison for distributing a controlled substance which resulted in death. White previously pleaded guilty to the charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that LAIRD JOHNSON, age 23, of New Orleans, Louisiana, was charged on Dec. 17, 2021 with theft of a firearm from a federal firearms licensee in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(u) and 924(i)(1), possession of a firearm...
By State Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
Release: The text of the following statement was released by the G7 foreign ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America, and the High Representative of the European Union.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
News Release: Defendants Sprayed and Assaulted Police, Swung Baton at Officers.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
News Release: 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. We continue to make progress towards a mid- to late-March 2022 data product release. .
By George Willis | Dec 20, 2021
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a package of actions setting biofuels volumes for years 2022, 2021 and 2020, and introducing regulatory changes intended to enhance the program’s objectives.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
News Release: An Irving man was sentenced today to 14 years in federal prison for possession of multiple unregistered machine gun conversion sears as well as numerous drug crimes, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
News Release: Has prior federal gun conviction. A Waterloo man, who escaped from federal custody was sentenced Dec. 17, 2021, to twelve months in prison. Darnell Henderson, age 25, from Waterloo, Iowa, received the prison sentence after an Aug. 11, 2021 guilty plea to escape from custody. Information disclosed...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Timothy Wright, 33, of Phelps, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to production of child pornography, which carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in prison and a maximum of 30 years. Wright also...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2021
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron has sentenced Jacquavius Smith (21, Orlando), a/k/a 9lokkNine and GlokkNine, to seven years and three months in federal prison for illegally possessing a short barreled semi-automatic rifle, possessing a handgun and ammunition as a convicted felon, and aggravated identity theft. The Court also ordered Smith to serve a three-year term of supervised release and to forfeit the firearms and ammunition related to the offenses.
