News from November 2021
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) issued the following statement after President Biden signed the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act into law...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans (“Archdiocese of New Orleans") has agreed to pay more than $1 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly submitting false claims for payment to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for the repair...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: Gateway Arch National Park features the Tram Ride to the Top, the Arch Museum, the documentary film Monument to the Dream, The Arch Store and The Arch Café. Visitors to the Arch must enter the monument at the new glass west entrance, which faces the Old Courthouse. The Arch legs are exits only. Entrance to the Visitor Center and the Arch Museum is free. All visitors must pass through an airport-style security checkpoint to get to the lower level of the Arch facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, KY - A federal grand jury in Bowling Green returned two indictments on Nov. 10, 2021, charging a Utica, Kentucky man and a Georgetown, Indiana man with federal child exploitation offenses. The charges were announced by Michael A. Bennett, Acting United States Attorney, Western District of Kentucky, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, and United States Secret Service Special Agent in Charge Robert Holman of the Louisville Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Colombian national, recently residing in Revere, was convicted by a federal jury today in connection with attempting to purchase 20 kilograms of cocaine from undercover agents.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: RESNO, Calif. - Antonio Valencia-Hernandez, 65, and Jose Reyes-Pineda, 48, natives and citizens of Mexico, were sentenced today to 12 years and three months and one and a half years in prison, respectively, for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and heroin, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Following his return from the recently concluded United Nations climate conference in Scotland, Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today called for increased funding and administrative support for human health risk analyses and environmental impact assessments across federal agencies.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Santa Clarita Valley man was sentenced today to 51 months in federal prison for scheming to fraudulently obtain approximately $1.8 million in COVID-19 relief guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) through the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program and the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: Note Now Available for Measuring Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in a Census.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Workforce Protections Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Keller (R-PA) recently sent a letter to the Chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Lina Khan, expressing concern over the FTC’s revival of a decades ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: DURANGO, Colo. - The Bureau of Reclamation invites members of the press and public to a virtual meeting for negotiations with the Public Service Company of New Mexico for a carriage contract of non-project water through San Juan Lateral features of the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project, located near...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A Pascoag man arrested twice on child pornography charges faces between five and twenty years in federal prison when he is sentenced in February 2022, having pleaded guilty today to charges of distribution and possession of child pornography, announced Acting United States Attorney Richard B. Myrus.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: ANCHORAGE - A Kotzebue man was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason to seven years in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for cyberstalking two individuals who were carrying out their professional responsibilities to protect a child from abuse or neglect.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: HARRISBURG -Acting U.S. Attorney Bruce D. Brandler announced that the Department of Justice’s Office of Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) has awarded over $236,000 of the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant to the City of Scranton, City of Wilkes-Barre, City of York, and Dauphin County.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) announced that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will initiate a 20-year withdrawal of federal lands near Chaco Canyon National Historical Park, which will bar new oil and gas leases within this perimeter.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that JONATHAN orPilla SINLAO, age 36, a resident of San Jose, California, was charged on Nov. 12, 2021 in an eight-count indictment arising out of a scheme to make numerous unauthorized credit card purchases at Home Depot stores.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - After deliberating for more than three hours on Friday, Nov. 12, 2021, a federal jury of nine women and three men found Kevin Watson guilty of one count of possession with intent to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl and 100 grams or more of heroin, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By Emily Bevard | Nov 14, 2021
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo applauded the passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which will fund key commerce initiatives.
By Glenn Minnis | Nov 14, 2021
The U.S. State Department has announced the launch of First Movers Coalition, a newly created platform that makes it easier for companies to harness their purchasing power and supply chains as they seek to create markets aimed at innovative, clean energy technologies that many perceive as critical to gaining control in the ongoing climate crisis.
By Glenn Minnis | Nov 14, 2021
Longer semi-trucks could soon be coming to state roads in North Dakota after the state Department of Transportation recently launched a pilot program to look into the possibility.
