News from November 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A Mexican national residing in Oregon City, Oregon pleaded guilty today for his leadership role in a conspiracy to traffic large quantities of methamphetamine, heroin and fentanyl from Mexico for resale in Oregon and Washington State.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management will conduct a controlled prescribed burn, as soon as next week, on up to 1,800 piles of tree branches and brush on roughly 75 acres in the ‘Inimim Forest, east of North Columbia in Nevada County. Timing of the pile burn will depend on weather conditions, air quality, resource availability and onsite observations.
By Bob Martin | Nov 23, 2021
TerraPower will build a Natrium reactor in Kemmerer Wyoming, which the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy believes will create thousands of construction jobs and hundreds more permanent jobs once completed.
By State Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Chairman Gregory Meeks (D-NY) 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 Commerce Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Biden administration announced it will release 50 million barrels of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) issued the following statement in response.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - Gary M. Restaino took office today as United States Attorney for the District of Arizona.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and its contractor UCOR are expanding partnerships with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Gabriel Rivera, 41, of Manchester, was sentenced on Monday to 90 months in federal prison for drug conspiracy and firearm charges, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: SOUTH BEND, Indiana - Alfred Cooke, Assistant Special Agent in Charge for U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration-Merrillville, Indiana, and U.S. Attorney Clifford D. Johnson of the Nothern District of Indiana announced that Andre Neal, 44, of Zion, Illinois, was sentenced to 60 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release by U.S. District Court Judge Damon R. Leichty after pleading guilty to interstate travel in aid of racketeering.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: BILLINGS - A Shepherd man who owns the Feedlot Steakhouse in Shepherd admitted to allegations today that he received approximately $75,000 in a COVID-19 relief loan from the Small Business Administration (SBA) for his business but used the funds to buy vintage automobiles as an investment, U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: Landlord and property manager sought illegal side payments from three Section 8 tenants.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: ANCHORAGE - An Anchorage man is charged by information on two counts of wildlife trafficking misdemeanors.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Owen Roth and Lawrence A. Casper (619) 546-7710.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: ANCHORAGE - A correctional officer at Goose Creek Correctional Center (GCCC) pleaded guilty to conspiracy and bribery charges for smuggling contraband into the prison in Wasilla, Alaska.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - As editors and judges from International Business Magazine searched the globe for the world’s best managers and leaders, one executive from the DOE complex stood out: Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) Chief Information Officer Jeff Krohn, who is being recognized as a Government Hero of the Year in an award program’s COVID-19 response category.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: For Distribution of Methamphetamine. FORT WAYNE - Richard Klaff, 48 years old, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Holly A. Brady after pleading guilty to distribution of 5 grams or more of methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Clifford D. Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. --- On Nov. 8, the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina entered a $9 million civil consent judgment for the United States against South Carolina chiropractor Daniel McCollum under the False Claims Act. On that same day, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics today released Federal Prisoner Statistics Collected under the First Step Act, 2021. This is the third report as required under the First Step Act of 2018 (FSA; P.L. 115-391). It includes data on federal prisoners provided to BJS by...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: Over the Course of the Monument Street Investigation, Law Enforcement Seized Kilo Quantities of Drugs, Loaded Guns, and More Than $535,781 in Drug Proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2021
News Release: U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced that Jeffrey Davenport, 52, of Toledo, was sentenced on Monday, Nov. 22, by Judge Jack Zouhary to 54 months in prison after Davenport pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession of an unregistered destructive device.
