News from November 2021
By Solange DeLisle | Nov 4, 2021
Trail rides, mustangs, and demonstrations featuring skills used on western ranches will be on display at the Empire Ranch Foundation's Cowboy Festival in Sonoita, Arizona.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2021
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Dillion Scott Schaffner, a/k/a “Trigger," age 28, formerly of Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Oct. 29, 2021, to 120 months’ imprisonment by United States District Court Judge Christopher...
By State Newswire | Nov 4, 2021
Release: At the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), the United States announced the launch of the First Movers Coalition, a new platform for companies to harness their purchasing power and supply chains to create early markets for innovative clean energy technologies that are key for tackling...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2021
News Release: Wilfredo Fuentes Will Serve 96 Months in Federal Prison for Distributing Heroin, Fentanyl, and Cocaine.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 4, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, the House of Representatives passed eight bills that the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure approved on a bipartisan basis earlier this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2021
News Release: Florence, South Carolina --- Acting United States Attorney M. Rhett Dehart announced today that a joint team of federal, state, and local law enforcement officers arrested eight individuals who have all been charged, along with one other defendant, in federal court for their involvement in drug trafficking and firearms offenses in Florence.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2021
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Diann Carol Clark, of Morgantown, West Virginia, has admitted to a payroll tax fraud charge, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2021
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan has sentenced Daniel Summers (69, St. Augustine) to 21 months in federal prison for mail fraud. As part of his sentence, the court also ordered Summers to pay $486,874.11 in restitution and, separately, entered a forfeiture money judgment against him in the amount of $739,910, the proceeds of the fraud scheme.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Legislation authored by U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) that would help save taxpayer dollars by directing the General Services Administration (GSA) to install the most life-cycle cost-effective and energy-efficient lighting in public buildings has advanced in the Senate. The legislation was approved by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, where Peters serves as Chair.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2021
News Release: MARSHALL, Texas - A Jefferson man has pleaded guilty to federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas Ganjei today.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 4, 2021
News Release: Whiskeytown, CA - Whiskeytown National Recreation Area is offering a series of ranger-led interpretive hikes this month. These hikes are open to the public and dogs on leash are allowed and encouraged. The ranger-led hikes enable visitors to explore the park's diverse trail system with a park ranger...
By Solange DeLisle | Nov 4, 2021
More bison are roaming the Wolakota Buffalo Range after the animals were relocated to South Dakota's Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation from nearby national parks.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Jan Sharp announced that on November 4, 2021, after a four-day trial, a federal jury convicted Jesse Cody, 33, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, of Sex Trafficking multiple Omaha victims by force, fraud, or coercion, as well as coercing one of the victims, who was then in foster...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2021
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - An Indian national residing in Seattle, WA, has pleaded guilty to federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2021
News Release: MARSHALL, Texas - A Jefferson man has pleaded guilty to federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas Ganjei today.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 4, 2021
Release: Private exporters reported sales of 100,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to Egypt during the 2021/2022 marketing year.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), released an investigative report titled, “Europe’s Energy Crisis: A Warning to America." The report examines how Europe’s energy crisis serves as a dire warning to the United States if Democrats enact President Biden’s budget blowout.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2021
News Release: POCATELLO - A federal jury sitting in Pocatello convicted an Idaho Falls man of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, attempted possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, and deported alien found in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Fayette County man, Stuart Dotson, pleaded guilty today to aiding and abetting the destruction of an energy facility.
By State Newswire | Nov 4, 2021
Release: Introduction. Thank you, Kelley and Andrea, for the introduction. Our new Assistant Secretary, Jessica Lewis, intended to be here today, but this morning got called away. So let me say “thank you" the Defense Trade Advisory Group for bearing with us. The Bureau of Political-Military Affairs has long...
