News from November 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: Sold Three Pistols to Undercover Federal Agent.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that John Dougherty, Business Manager of Local 98 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (“Local 98"), 61, of Philadelphia, PA, and Robert Henon, Philadelphia City Councilmember, 52, of Philadelphia, PA, were convicted at trial today of multiple crimes involving public corruption.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri, man pleaded guilty in federal court today to illegally possessing three firearms that he sold to an undercover law enforcement officer.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), Water Oceans and Wildlife Subcommittee Chair Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), Rep. Ed Case (D-Hawaii) and Rep. Gregorio Sablan (D-CNMI) issued the following joint statement regarding the recent audit of the Western Pacific Sustainable Fisheries Fund (WPSFF) conducted by the Department of Commerce Office of the Inspector General.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) announced the full committee will hold a hearing titled, “Industry and Labor Perspectives: A Further Look at North American Supply Chain Challenges."
By USDA Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: 10:00 a.m. WITNESS LIST. Ms. Emily Skor, Chief Executive Officer, Growth Energy, Washington, D.C. Mr. Jeff Pratt, President, Green Power EMC, on behalf of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, Tucker, GA. Mr. Gary Wheeler, Executive Director, Missouri Soybean Association, on behalf of...
By Press Release | Nov 15, 2021
The Justice Department filed a lawsuit on November 10, against Uber Technologies Inc. (Uber) for charging “wait time” fees to passengers who, because of disability, need more time to enter a car.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: The Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), a component of the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP), has awarded nearly $104 million to serve victims in tribal communities, of which nearly $101 million was awarded through the Crime Victims Fund Tribal Victim Services Set-Aside.
By Press Release | Nov 15, 2021
NNSA awards an additional $38.8 million to 24 STEM consortia around the Nation
By Interior Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: KINGMAN, Ariz. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Kingman Field Office has completed a preliminary Environmental Assessment (EA) and is seeking public comment on the proposed UNS Electric Inc. Walnut Creek Substation Project (DOI-BLM-AZ-C010-2021-0045-EA).
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - A $500 million provision secured by U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, to help communities address the impacts of natural disasters has been signed into law as a part of the bipartisan infrastructure bill. Peters secured...
By Press Release | Nov 15, 2021
On Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm traveled to New Castle, Delaware and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to underscore the historic investments of the recently passed Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) released the following statement on the retirement of Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: The former owner of a Bryan County pharmacy has agreed to settle claims that he and his pharmacy unlawfully dispensed controlled substances despite the presence of red flags indicating that the prescriptions, written by a convicted pill-mill doctor, were not issued for legitimate medical reasons.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: CAÑON CITY, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management is preparing to conduct pile burns in nine locations this winter. The specific locations of the pile burns are listed below.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that JOSEPH REED, age 35, of New Orleans, Louisiana, was indicted on Nov. 12, 2021 for Bank Robbery in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2113(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Mark Allen Craig, II, of Lumberport, West Virginia, has admitted to a firearms charge, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II announced.
By State Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
Release: On Nov. 15, 2021, the Russian Federation recklessly conducted a destructive test of a direct-ascent anti-satellite missile against one of its own satellites.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: Fabian Emilio Zapata Taborda Allegedly Responsible for Supplying Cocaine to the Clan del Golfo and Other Drug Trafficking Organizations.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: MISSOULA - A Lolo man who admitted to selling an undercover informant methamphetamine as part of a large trafficking ring was sentenced on Nov. 12 to seven years in prison to be followed by four years of supervised release, Acting U.S. Leif M. Johnson said today.
