News from November 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - A man has been sentenced to a year in federal prison for straw purchasing handguns in the Chicago suburbs.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 3, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Chairwoman of the Senate Rules Committee, applauded the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee for passing their...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2021
News Release: BROOKLYN, NY - Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Joanna De Alba was sentenced by United States District Judge Dora L. Irizarry to 96 months in prison for distributing, and possessing with intent to distribute, illegal drugs over the “dark web." De Alba distributed an array of illegal...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2021
News Release: HARRISONBURG, Va.- A federal jury convicted a Winchester, Virginia man yesterday for conspiring with others to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin as well as distributing heroin that resulted in serious bodily injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2021
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Antoine Paul Brown, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, has admitted to a firearms charge, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II announced.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 3, 2021
News Release: Today, Civil Rights and Human Services Subcommittee Republican Leader Russ Fulcher (R-ID) delivered the following remarks, as prepared for delivery, at a subcommittee hearing on modernizing the Community Services Block Grant (CSBG)...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2021
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - A Pelahatchie woman was arrested yesterday in a murder-for-hire plot, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Jermicha Fomby of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2021
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Jeremy Baney, age 50, formerly of Lycoming County and currently an inmate at SCI Smithfield, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Nov. 3, 2021, to 12 months’ imprisonment by United States District Court...
By State Newswire | Nov 3, 2021
News Release: Ambassador Kelly Keiderling is the South and Central Asian Affairs Bureau Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. She served as the U.S. Ambassador to Uruguay from 2016-2019, and as the Deputy Commandant/International Affairs Advisor and...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 3, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement on new data from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) on wealthy individuals who refuse to file taxes...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 3, 2021
News Release: BRUSSELS, BELGIUM, Nov. 3, 2021 -- European Union Commissioner for Agriculture Janusz Wojciechowski and United States Secretary of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today issued the following statement on a newly created transatlantic collaboration platform on agriculture designed to take on the global challenges of sustainability and climate change.
By State Newswire | Nov 3, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.- Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul delivered the following opening statement at a full committee hearing on Assessing Progress and Challenges in State Department Management, Operations, and Reforms.
By State Newswire | Nov 3, 2021
Release: On behalf of the government of the United States and the American people, I congratulate the people of Dominica on the 43rd anniversary of your independence.
By State Newswire | Nov 3, 2021
Release: Today at the UN Climate Change Conference, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Bonnie Jenkins announced the United States’ commitment of $25 million in support towards expanding access to clean nuclear energy. The announcement, also called a “Nuclear Futures Package," represents efforts from across the U.S. government, and includes ongoing programs and projects under development to.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2021
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A Denton County tax preparer has been sentenced to prison for federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Hot Springs, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on Oct. 25, 2021, by U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey L. Viken.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 3, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after securing the inclusion of historic paid family and medical leave provisions as part of the Build Back Better Act...
By State Newswire | Nov 3, 2021
Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Passaic County, New Jersey, man today admitted possessing a firearm and ammunition after previously having been convicted of a felony, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Two residents of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiring to defraud the United States, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
