News from November 2021
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: Today, as technologies, services, data, and people interact in ever more complex ways, the potential danger from cyber threats has moved beyond traditional networks and computer systems. As we saw during the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attacks and the SolarWinds hack, a cyberattack against our nation’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Bob Murray announced today that CHRISTOPHER KENT PODLESNIK, 52, of Laramie, Wyoming, has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment after previously pleading guilty to four counts of transmitting threats in interstate commerce. The sentence also includes three years of supervised release with special conditions, a fine of $10,000, and special assessments totaling $400.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Michael A. Deshong, Daniel C. Silva, and Carl Brooker (619) 546-9290.
By Press Release | Nov 16, 2021
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that David Lopez, doing business as Texas Best Produce, satisfied a reparation order in the amount of $47,880 issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) involving unpaid produce transactions.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Cumberland County, New Jersey, man was arrested today for allegedly distributing and possessing images of child sexual abuse, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By Press Release | Nov 16, 2021
In November 2019, the Office of Inspector General Hotline received a complaint regarding the Y-12 National Security Complex Fire Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: DALLAS - A longtime drug dealer has been convicted of drug and gun crimes, announced DEA Special Agent in Charge Eduardo A. Chávez.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that an Okreek, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Second Degree Murder and Using and Carrying a Firearm During and in Relation to a Crime of Violence.
By Press Release | Nov 16, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. — On. Nov. 3, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), introduced the Energy Accountability Act.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: Today, NOAA released two Atlases compiling the best available science to inform the identification of Aquaculture Opportunity Areas (AOAs) in the Gulf of Mexico and Southern California. NOAA previously identified these regions for their potential to host sustainable commercial aquaculture development...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Mobridge, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault by Striking, Beating, or Wounding following a two-day jury trial was sentenced on Nov. 15, 2021, by Judge Charles B. Kornmann, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: CINCINNATI - The founder, owner, CEO and president of a Cincinnati nonprofit was sentenced today in federal court to 48 months in prison for using thousands of dollars for personal expenses instead of paying over payroll taxes to the IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: Seven Members of Los Angeles-Based Fraud Ring Sentenced for Multimillion-Dollar COVID-19 Relief Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - A federal grand jury indicted Steven Bell, along with 19 other defendants, for charges that include conspiracy to distribute heroin, fentanyl, cocaine and methamphetamine in a large-scale nationwide drug ring. The group transported and distributed illegal narcotics in numerous states to include California, Michigan, Missouri, Kentucky and Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 14 years of incarceration on his conviction of several counts of robbery, brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence, and conspiracy, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.--A new analysis by the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) of the latest version of the Democrats’ reckless tax-and-spend bill (H.R. 5376) confirms that it gives tax cuts to the wealthy; provides fleeting and limited tax relief to low- and middle-income earners; and, violates the President’s promise to not raise taxes on anyone with income below $400,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Mobridge, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine was sentenced on Nov. 15, 2021, by Judge Charles B. Kornmann, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- Acting United States Attorney M. Rhett DeHart announced today that Johnny Ray Kinsey, Jr., 46, of Gaston, was sentenced to more than twelve years in federal prison after pleading guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By State Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
Release: More information about Mali is available on the Mali page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A bipartisan provision authored by U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Rob Portman (R-OH), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, was signed into law by President Biden as a part of the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act.
