News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 5, 2021
News Release: MONTE VISTA, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management San Luis Valley Field Office is now accepting reservations for the Zapata Falls and Penitente Canyon campgrounds to improve campers’ experiences at these sites. Reservations for each campground may be made online at Recreation.gov.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2021
News Release: CINCINNATI - The first Chinese intelligence agent ever to be extradited to the United States to stand trial was convicted today by a federal jury in Cincinnati.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2021
News Release: McMillan had a 2014 conviction for burglary, and was shoplifting at Target with a stolen gun.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2021
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A federal jury convicted an Edenton, North Carolina man yesterday on charges of conspiring with others to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine, possessing cocaine with the intent to distribute it, and distributing cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 5, 2021
News Release: BOISE, Idaho- The Bureau of Reclamation is closer to transferring title of some of its federal water facilities to the Greater Wenatchee Irrigation District, following a 90-day Congressional review that was completed on Nov. 3, 2021. The district is located in central Washington along the Columbia...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2021
News Release: Miami, Florida - A Lake Worth, Florida man who did not report his liquor store’s cash sales to the IRS was sentenced to 18 months in prison yesterday in federal district court in West Palm Beach for tax evasion.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2021
News Release: ABINGDON, Va. - A Jenkins, Kentucky man was sentenced yesterday to 147 months in prison for trafficking methamphetamine from Kentucky into Wise County, Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2021
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced that on Wednesday, Nov. 3, Judge J. Philip Calabrese sentenced Anthony D. Wilson, 35, of Warren, Ohio, to a three-year term of probation after Wilson pleaded guilty in June of 2021 to threatening an official with the Social Security Administration.
By State Newswire | Nov 5, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), ranking member and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, yesterday introduced their International Pandemic Preparedness and COVID-19 Response Act (S. 2297) as an amendment to the FY2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). This bipartisan legislation, passed out of committee on July 28, 2021, improves global health and pandemic preparedness and enhances COVID-19 response efforts.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2021
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Brian Brainard Wedgeworth (a/k/a “Dr. Brian Anderson," a/k/a “Dr. Anthony Watkins," a/k/a “Dr. Brian Adams," a/k/a “Dr. Edward Chen," a/k/a “Dr. Brian Chris," a/k/a “Dr. Chris Williamson," a/k/a “Dr. Brian Christopher Williamson," a/k/a “Dr. Brian Edmonds," a/k/a “Dr. Brian Ammerson,"...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2021
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington has sentenced Michael Nolan (48, Tampa) and Richard Epstein (29, Aurora, CO) for their roles in a conspiracy to defraud federal health benefit programs, Medicare and the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (“CHAMPVA").
By Interior Newswire | Nov 5, 2021
News Release: “Watch your fingers." “Here let me get this side." “Everyone get ready." It is an early autumn afternoon in New Mexico. Voices of Navajo and Zuni youth ring out over El Morro’s Headland Trail Honeymoon Cave section as they work together with NPS preservation staff on the rehabilitation of this historic...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2021
News Release: RALEIGH - G. Norman Acker III, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced today that on Oct. 20, 2021, a federal grand jury sitting in the Eastern District of North Carolina returned a sealed, twelve-count indictment charging 24 individuals with a scheme to...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Elliot Romancito, 27, of Taos, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Taos Pueblo, pleaded guilty in federal court on Nov. 3 to sexual abuse of a minor in Indian Country. Romancito was indicted on March 10, 2020.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 5, 2021
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) entered into a stipulation agreement with Ultrasort LLC and Kenneth Bode of Elgin, Neb., on Aug. 31, 2021, for violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act. Under the terms of the stipulation agreement, Ultrasort, LLC waived its rights to a hearing and paid a civil penalty of $875.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2021
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that THOMAS CRAFT, a licensed attorney, pled guilty in Manhattan federal court to securities fraud. CRAFT’s guilty plea results from his involvement in a fraudulent scheme in which he falsely represented...
By Ariana Chiarenza | Nov 5, 2021
The Department of Energy announced the launch of an Energy Storage for Social Equity Initiative on Nov. 3 designed to benefit underserved and frontline communities.
By Glenn Minnis | Nov 5, 2021
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo is breathing a sigh of relief over the Centers for Disease Control's (CDC) recent indications it plans to soon remove all COVID-19-related restrictions on the cruise industry.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2021
News Release: ST. THOMAS - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced on today that Kharim Moore of St. Thomas was sentenced today to three years’ probation, fined $1,000, and ordered to complete 100 hours of community service for possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 5, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement about Speaker Pelosi’s grand socialist agenda.
