News from November 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A New York City lawyer, who simultaneously represented the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) and a ratepayer suing it in the wake of the department’s billing debacle, has agreed to plead guilty to a bribery charge for accepting an illegal payment of nearly $2.2 million for getting another attorney to purportedly represent his ratepayer client in a collusive lawsuit against LADWP, the Justice Department announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 29, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Bill Hagerty (R-TN), and Angus King (I-ME) filed an amendment to the FY 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would add key technologies impacting national security to the sectors that can utilize the FAST-41 improved federal permitting program, which will encourage development of these technologies in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2021
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - Harell Jamison, age 47, who was a substance abuse counselor for Substance Use Disorder Clinical Care (SUDCC) at Womack Army Medical Center, was arrested on Nov. 22, 2021, in Raleigh for Sexual Contact without Consent and Sexual Activity by a Custodian pursuant to an indictment by...
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 29, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Chair of the Subcommittee on Aviation Rick Larsen (D-WA) and Subcommittee on Aviation Member Greg Stanton (D-AZ) asked Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Stephen Dickson to...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2021
News Release: JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis today sentenced Eddie “Macho" Martinez-Marquez (33, Kissimmee) to 10 years and 1 month in federal prison for conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute and to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine. As part of his sentence, the court also entered a money judgment of $500,000, the proceeds of the multi-kilo drug conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2021
News Release: Defendants Allegedly Stole Property, Generated Proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Moshe Porat, 74, of Bala Cynwyd, PA, the former Dean of Temple University’s Richard J. Fox School of Business and Management (“Fox") from 1996 until 2018, was convicted today after trial on charges that he conspired and...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 29, 2021
News Release: MANTEO, N.C. - National Park Service staff are monitoring a commercial fishing vessel that grounded at Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore). The F/V Jonathan Ryan is located near off-road vehicle ramp 48, approximately 1.25 miles southeast of the Frisco Campground.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 29, 2021
News Release: US Park Rangers of Bandelier National Monument are seeking the public’s help with identifying those responsible for illegally killing an elk in the park. The elk was killed on the morning of Sunday, Nov. 28, before 10:45am. The incident occurred near Forest Road 289 approximately 3/4 mile from the intersection with New Mexico Highway 4.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2021
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Nigerian national who was indicted in April 2021 in connection with a large fraud scheme pleaded guilty to receipt of stolen money.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 29, 2021
News Release: By: U.S. Senator John Barrasso Nov. 26, 2021 Wall Street Journal The comparison by John Kerry of this month’s international climate carnival with the Constitutional Convention was preposterous (“COP26 Prepared the World to Beat Climate Change," op-ed, Nov. 22). The Biden administration’s commitments ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2021
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington has sentenced Nathaniel Quiles (37, Kissimmee) to 9 years and 4 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin. The court ordered that the sentence be served consecutive to a State of Florida prison sentence of 15 years, which Quiles is currently serving.
By State Newswire | Nov 28, 2021
News Release: On behalf of the United States of America, I congratulate the people of Albania as you celebrate your 109th Independence Day. Our deep and enduring friendship dates back more than a century to when President Woodrow Wilson emphatically defended Albania’s independence at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference.
By Andy Nghiem | Nov 28, 2021
On Nov. 18, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $3 million to connect industry partners with the U.S. National Laboratory high-performance computing resources that will accelerate the development of breakthrough manufacturing and clean energy technologies, according to a press release.
By Art Benavidez | Nov 28, 2021
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Utilities Service will receive $2 billion to help people living in rural communities gain access to high-speed internet.
By David Hutton | Nov 28, 2021
In an effort to guard against the transmission of potato wart disease from Prince Edward Island into the United States, Canada has suspended the transport of potatoes from the province.
By David Hutton | Nov 28, 2021
In an effort to help the meat and poultry industry rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is giving a $32 million infusion of cash to enhance the food supply chain.
By David Hutton | Nov 28, 2021
The United States Department of Agriculture is investing $222 million to boost key community infrastructure in 44 states, Guam, Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands.
By Caleb Lombardo | Nov 28, 2021
For farmers, their livelihood and even mental well-being can depend on the weather. Now, a new study has linked the two without question. It has found that the levels of psychological stress among U.S. farmers is tied closely to the weather, specifically periods of drought.
By Caleb Lombardo | Nov 28, 2021
The U.S. Department of Commerce has released a list of 27 foreign entities that have been found to be in support of activities and policies that are counter to the best interests of the United States.
