News published on Federal Newswire in November 2021

News from November 2021


Risch Introduces Amendments on Ukraine, CFIUS, State Authorization to NDAA

News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, yesterday introduced amendments to the FY 2022 National Defense Authorization Act that would provide Ukraine with material support in the face of Russian aggression, counter malign Chinese influence in U.S. universities, and authorize the State Department for the first time since 2003.


The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Nov. 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


St. Thomas Man Who Forged Checks in His Father’s Name Sentenced to 21 Months in Federal Prison for $303,000 Bank Fraud

News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert for the District of the Virgin Islands announced today that Lenroy Ravalier, Jr. was sentenced by the Honorable Robert A. Molloy to serve 21 months in federal prison followed by 3 years of supervised release and ordered to pay restitution of $169,000, representing his ill-gotten gains from his commission of bank fraud.


The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Nov. 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on Nov. 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


First-Degree Murder Suspect Apprehended by U.S. Marshals in Memphis

News Release: Memphis, TN - U.S. Marshal Tyreece Miller announces the capture of Ozar Odell Faulkner on charges of First-Degree Murder that occurred in Memphis. Faulkner is a suspect from a homicide that took place at a carwash off North Hollywood Street on Aug. 3, 2021.


News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - Zachary Mitchem, 36, formerly of Beckley, was sentenced to four years in federal prison for possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine and heroin.


News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Today, the United States Attorney’s Office, District of Arizona, announced the unsealing of two indictments charging high-ranking members of the Sinaloa Cartel with international drug trafficking. On Nov. 13, 2019 and Feb. 19, 2020, a federal grand jury in Tucson returned superseding indictments against cartel members Aureliano Guzman-Loera of Sinaloa, Mexico, and brothers Ruperto, Jose, and Heriberto Salgueiro-Nevarez of Guadalupe Y Calvo, Mexico.


News Release: MIAMI - The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), along with its law enforcement partners, has removed close to 745,000 pounds of unneeded prescriptions from medicine cabinets across the country as part of DEA’s ongoing commitment to turn the tide against the U.S. opioid epidemic. Following last month’s 21st National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, the program has removed more than 15.2 million pounds of medication from circulation since its inception.


The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Nov. 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Nov. 2, 2021, Dashea Simmons, age 25, of Pittston, Pennsylvania, was charged by a federal grand jury with making false statements in connection with the purchase of a firearm from a federally licensed firearms dealer.


Neal Statement on October 2021 Jobs Report

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement on the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) October 2021 jobs report...


News Release: Traveled for sex abuse of minor; possessed images of child rape and abuse.


The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Nov. 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: With great regret and after much deliberation, Tumacácori National Historical Park is cancelling the 2021 Fiesta de Tumacácori for only the second time in its fifty-year history. “It was a very difficult decision to make - even more difficult than the first-ever cancellation, last year during the height...


News Release: A DFW nightclub magnate and two of his managers have been convicted of operating an empire of clubs in which drugs were sold openly, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham.


The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Nov. 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Nov. 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Elizabethton Man Sentenced To 210 Months' Imprisonment For Distribution Of Child Pornography

News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On November 4, 2021, James Ellison Catoe, 48, currently of Elizabethton, was sentenced by the Honorable Clifton L. Corker, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Greeneville to 210 months in prison, followed by lifetime supervised release. Catoe will be required to register with the state sex offender registry and comply with special sex offender conditions during his supervised release.


The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Nov. 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.