News from December 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina --- Acting United States Attorney M. Rhett DeHart announced today that Edmund Dechane Holmes, a/k/a “Buddha SME," 30, of Georgetown, has pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute more than a kilogram of heroin. Holmes’s case had been scheduled for trial in January 2022 until the change of plea this week.
By State Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
Release: This month, President Biden convened a diverse group of leaders during the inaugural Summit for Democracy. Engaging heads of state, civil society, philanthropic organizations, academics, and the private sector, the Summit explored opportunities for and barriers to democratic renewal globally while reaffirming the U.S. commitment to inclusive and participatory democratic governance, including gender equity and equality as central to the health of democracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
News Release: A Fairview-based aerial herbicide application company has paid $240,000 to settle allegations of trespass and destruction of United States property at Skiatook and Birch Lakes, in Osage County, announced Clinton J. Johnson, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
The US Commerce Department published a three page notice on Dec. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Jorge Orencel, age 65, of Silver Spring, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to federal charges of attempting to smuggle goods out of the United States without the required export license. Orencel owned and operated Sumtech, an export business located in Fulton, Maryland.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
The US Commerce Department published a two page rule on Dec. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
News Release: Four Indianapolis-area small business lending executives, all of whom worked for Banc-Serv Partners LLC (Banc-Serv) — a defunct lending service provider — were sentenced this month in the Southern District of Indiana for a 13-year conspiracy to defraud the Small Business Administration (SBA) in connection ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
News Release: ROCK ISLAND, Ill. - Four individuals engaged in a conspiracy to distribute heroin in the Quad Cities were sentenced on Dec. 16, 2021, to multi-year terms in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
The US Interior Department published a one page notice on Dec. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
News Release: A man who conspired to distribute methamphetamine was sentenced Dec. 16, 2021, to four years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
News Release: Attorney General Merrick B. Garland hosted the U.S.-EU Justice and Home Affairs Ministerial at the Department of Justice on Dec. 16, 2021. Joined by Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, the Attorney General welcomed Commissioner for Justice and Consumer Affairs Didier Reynders, Commissioner ...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
“Vaccine Mandate (Executive Calendar)” was published on pages S9028-S9034 of the Congressional Record on Dec. 8.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that SANTOS MENDOZA-OSORIO, age 25, a native of Nicaragua, was charged on Dec. 16, 2021 in a one-count indictment with illegal use of a Social Security number in order to obtain employment, in violation of Title 42, United States Code, Section 408(a)(7)(B).
By DOE Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Dec. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
News Release: An Indiana man was sentenced today to 50 years in prison followed by 15 years of supervised release for using social media to produce child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
News Release: Defendants Obtained More Than $23 Million.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was arrested yesterday on charges of methamphetamine distribution.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell sentenced Jack Anderson IV, age 45, of Tucson, Arizona, to 126 months in federal prison after Anderson entered a guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
News Release: LAS VEGAS - This week, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Nevada recognized nine federal, state, and local law enforcement officers and special agents who went above and beyond in 2021, putting themselves at risk to support the Department of Justice’s mission.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 17, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican Leader Morgan Griffith (R-VA) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo regarding her reported family ties to the Chinese Communist Party and potential conflicts of interest from those connections.
