News from November 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Louisville, Kentucky, was sentenced in federal court today for one count of conspiracy to solicit and receive unlawful kickbacks, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Thomas Gavin, 78, of Pottstown, PA, was sentenced to one day in prison, three years of supervised release with the first year to be served on home confinement, a $25,000 fine and was ordered to pay $23,385 in restitution by United States District Court Judge Mark A. Kearney for selling an antique rifle dating back to the American Revolution that he had stolen from a local museum.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that MIKAL BLACK, age 23, of Ironton, Louisiana, pleaded guilty on Nov. 23, 2021 to a single count of being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of the Federal Gun Control Act, Title 18 United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: For Kidnapping. HAMMOND- Patricia Carrington, 48, of Gary, Indiana, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Philip P. Simon after pleading guilty to kidnapping, announced United States Attorney Clifford D. Johnson. Carrington was sentenced to 210 months in prison followed by 3 years of supervised...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Brooklyn man who is a previously convicted felon was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for possessing a machinegun, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- The Department of Justice today announced more than $139 million in grant funding through the department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) COPS Hiring Program (CHP). The awards provide direct funding to 183 law enforcement agencies across the...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Brian Blackston, age 32, of Baltimore, yesterday to 70 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine in the Monument Street area of East Baltimore.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: CARSON CITY, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management Stillwater Field Office has approved the Dixie Meadows Geothermal Development Project. The project is in Churchill and Pershing Counties, approximately 43 miles northeast of Fallon, Nevada on BLM-administered land.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - Ronald Speiser, 81, and Jean Speiser, 81, of Freeburg, Illinois, will spend.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a White River, South Dakota, man convicted of Enticement of a Minor Using the Internet was sentenced on Nov. 19, 2021, by Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By Christina Heath | Nov 23, 2021
The Department of Energy has upgraded the energy efficiency of one million American homes through the Home Performance with ENERGY STAR program.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Jan Sharp announced that Timothy E. Caruso, 45, was sentenced today by Chief United States District Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. after being found guilty by a jury on July 15, 2021 of charges of distributing of child pornography and accessing with intent to view child pornography.
By State Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Gregory Meeks (D-NY) and Ranking Member Michael McCaul (R-TX) sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken regarding the Houthi breach of the U.S. Embassy in Sana’a, Yemen, and the harassment and detainment of U.S. Embassy locally employed Yemeni staff.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: NEW YORK - Keith Kruskall, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Office of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY), Thomas Fattorusso, and Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service - Criminal...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Boulder man admitted to firearms crimes today after being accused of illegally possessing firearms and aiding a straw purchase at his wife’s Helena pawn shop, U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA: A Telfair County man faces up to life in federal prison after a jury convicted him on 36 counts related to a conspiracy to possess and distribute methamphetamine and cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A former Columbus man was sentenced today in federal court to six months in prison, a $50,000 fine and one year of supervised release for criminally interfering with the right to fair housing. His charges stemmed from antisemitic threats the defendant made to his neighbors.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today released new data tables from the 2020 Service Annual Survey (SAS). The SAS table package provides statistics on revenue, payroll, sources of revenue, expenses, exports, inventory, revenue from electronic sources and other selected industry-specific data for service industries.
By George Willis | Nov 23, 2021
Three awards from the COVID-19 Private Sector Engagement and Partnership Fund were recently given to recognize and support programs that address economic recovery and assist the public to overcome the negative impacts of the pandemic.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: PENSACOLA, Fla. - FEMA has approved two hazard mitigation grants totaling more than $3.3 million to strengthen the resiliency of critical facilities in Bay and Jackson counties following Hurricane Michael.
