News from November 2021
By State Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Today, GREG ALLEN HENKE, 41, of Oklahoma City, pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation of a child and to possession of child pornography, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Antonio Mario Hall, of Cleveland, Ohio, has admitted to a drug charge, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II announced.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: LANDER, Wyoming - A remote creek on public land in central Wyoming got some special attention this year as the Bureau of Land Management and partners began to employ low-tech, low-cost methods to restore wet meadows to dry public lands. Wet meadows are riparian areas that provide critical habitat for wildlife and livestock in the arid landscape.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: HOUSTON - A 49-year-old local physician has agreed to pay $523,331 to settle allegations he submitted false claims for the placement of electro-acupuncture devices and for making false statements when applying for a loan from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - SIERRA HUDSON, age 34, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, was charged on Nov. 12, 2021 in a one count indictment for delay or destruction of mail.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: Dolores, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Colorado Tres Rios Field Office is seeking the public’s input in reviewing its road and trail inventory in Dolores, San Miguel, and Montrose counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - Today, United States District Court Chief Judge Tanya Walton Pratt swore Zachary A. Myers in as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana. President Joseph R. Biden nominated the veteran federal prosecutor to serve as U.S. Attorney and he was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm sentenced Tirrel Saunders, a/k/a “Pretty", age 35, of Baltimore, Maryland to 15 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute controlled substances. Saunders was a member of the Gregory Butler Drug Trafficking Organization (“Butler DTO") which distributed heroin, fentanyl, cocaine, and crack cocaine in Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: Damian Williams, the United State Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that JEFFREY HASTINGS, the former Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of SAExploration Holdings, Inc. (“SAEX" or the “Company"), a publicly traded seismic data company based in...
By State Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul is expanding his ongoing investigation into the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan by requesting transcribed interviews from 34 officials within the administration. The request comes after months of delayed and often incomplete...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: During the Biden-Harris administration’s first White House Tribal Nations Summit later today, President Biden will announce that the Department of the Interior is taking steps to protect the Chaco Canyon and the greater connected landscape with a rich Tribal and cultural legacy in northwest New Mexico.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: The U.S Department of Energy’s Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) congratulates the 18 winners of the 2021 Federal Energy and Water Management Awards. These awards recognize individuals, teams, and organizations for outstanding efforts to cut energy waste, reduce costs, optimize performance, and advance America’s progress towards net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
By Press Release | Nov 15, 2021
APHIS restricts the movement of domestic soil from areas within the continental United States that are under quarantine for specific plant pests.
By State Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A British national was sentenced today to 37 months in federal prison for making a series of graphic online threats to harm, rape and kill.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Jeremy Hernandez, 30, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of producing child pornography, was sentenced to 30 years in prison and 15 years of supervised release by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced that President Biden signed the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act into law which includes their bipartisan legislation...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: Orlando, FL - U.S. District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza today revoked the supervised release of Jason Moriarty (38, Orlando) and sentenced him to six years in federal prison to be followed by a lifetime term of supervised release. Moriarty was arrested on Aug. 23, 2021, and has been detained pending this final hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: The Department of Justice today announced that it will award 137 grants to 85 American Indian and Alaska Native communities, for a total of $73 million, to improve public safety and serve crime victims. The announcement was made during the White House Tribal Nations Summit taking place virtually today and tomorrow.
