News from November 2021
By USDA Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and John Boozman (R-Ark.), Ranking Member, today announced that the U.S. Senate voted 76-19 to confirm Mr. Robert Bonnie to serve as Under Secretary for Farm Production and Conservation.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: A former Cedar Rapids pharmacist who diverted controlled substances for his own use pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids. Brandon Lee Iacobo, age 35, from La Crosse, Wisconsin, was convicted of one count of acquiring a controlled substance by means of misrepresentation, fraud, deception, and subterfuge.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a joint Energy Subcommittee and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing titled, “Securing America’s Future: Supply Chain Solutions for a Clean Energy Economy:"
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Nov. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 16, 2021
The US Interior Department published a five page rule on Nov. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Press Release | Nov 15, 2021
Following the passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal, U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm hit the airwaves and the road to explain how the Biden-Harris administration, including the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), successfully achieved a bipartisan, long overdue agreement to invest in our nation’s infrastructure and strengthen American’s competitiveness to lead the clean energy future.
By Timothy Stuckey | Nov 15, 2021
Attorney General Merrick Garland has reinstated the Office for Access to Justice, a separate office within the Justice Department that was suspended during the Trump administration.
By Timothy Stuckey | Nov 15, 2021
A podiatrist in Mississippi has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of fraudulently filing more than $11 million in health care claims.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Union County, New Jersey, man today admitted his role in a scheme to bribe postal employees to steal credit cards from the mail, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michael J. Driscoll, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced that KEVIN DION ROLLE, Jr. was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Alison J. Nathan to 60 months in prison for his role in a $1.2 million credit card scheme. ROLLE, Jr. pled guilty before Judge Nathan on August 5, 2021, to one count of wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that CATHERINE CAMPBELL WILLIAMS, age 68, of New Orleans, Louisiana, was indicted on Nov. 12, 2021 for Theft of Government Funds, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 641.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, TX - Large numbers of visitors historically travel to Big Bend National Park during the last weeks of November. As travelers seek out Big Bend for a Thanksgiving escape, the park will see significant increases in visitation. Big Bend is already experiencing record visitation, and visitors who plan on a November visit should be prepared for full campgrounds and limited parking.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: Middle Georgians Receive Telly Award Statuettes in Macon for “Armed with Knowledge".
By Interior Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho -The Bureau of Land Management, in partnership with the Lemhi Regional Land Trust, has finalized a 47-acre conservation easement with the Turner family near Salmon, Idaho.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - An individual believed to have entered the United States illegally in March 2018 has been sentenced in federal court to 42 months in jail and ordered to pay $106,341.07 in restitution on his conviction of access device fraud and aggravated identity theft, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: Grand Junction, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking public input on a proposal to manage recreation along 39 miles of the Gunnison River, including the segment of the river that flows through the Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area (D-E NCA).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: St. Croix, VI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced that Jacinta Gussie, age 59 of St. Croix, Virgin Islands, was sentenced on Nov. 12, 2021 by Federal District Court Judge Wilma A. Lewis to 3.75 years in prison for her part in a complex tax fraud scheme. Gussie must also serve...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Record-breaking heat in the U.S. in 2021 endangered millions of workers exposed to heat illness and injury in both indoor and outdoor work environments. Workers in outdoor and indoor work settings without adequate climate-controlled environments are at risk of hazardous heat exposure, and workers of color are exposed disproportionately to hazardous levels of heat in essential jobs across these work settings.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: LOUISVILLE, KY – A Louisville-based maker of eyeglasses and other optical goods that allegedly discriminated against 654 Black and white applicants for production positions will pay $227,636 in back wages and interest to the applicants, and make 31 job offers as positions become available.
By State Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
Release: The United States is acting to promote accountability for Nicaraguan officials in the wake of the November sham election in Nicaragua. Today, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control imposed sanctions against the Nicaraguan Public Ministry and nine Nicaraguan government officials.
