News from November 2021

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Union County, Jersey, man was sentenced today to 17 months in prison for offering bribes to a U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employee to steal check books and credit cards from the mail, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.

By USDA Newswire | Nov 2, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and John Boozman (R-Ark.), Ranking Member, today announced that the Committee will hold a business meeting to vote on the nomination of Rostin Behnam to be Chair and Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2021
News Release: OMAHA, Neb. -- Investigators with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Omaha Division reached thousands of individuals with messages of drug prevention and safety during annual Red Ribbon Week celebrations that began October 23. In addition to in-person presentations, 15 landmarks across the five-state...

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2021
News Release: Used Multiple Checks Intentionally Drawn on Closed Accounts in Effort to Thwart IRS.

By DOE Newswire | Nov 2, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today on the bicameral agreement to lower prescription drug prices for Americans in the Build Back Better Act...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 2, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today announced the Census Data Equity Initiative for Underserved Communities. This includes the release of the Data for Equity webpage, press kit, director’s blog and more highlighting datasets and tools available to help federal agencies and other entities identify and equitably distribute resources to underserved communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2021
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-In August and October 2021, coordinated law enforcement operations targeting two Portland-area transnational drug trafficking cells led to the arrests of the cells’ leaders and more than a dozen associates, and the seizure of approximately 200,000 counterfeit oxycodone pills suspected...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 2, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Republican Leader David B. McKinley (R-WV), and Energy Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Upton (R-MI) released the following statement after the Biden-Harris administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released proposed methane standards.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2021
News Release: A Grand Blanc, Michigan man was sentenced to 48 months in prison after having pleaded guilty to supervising a complex fraud and kickback scheme involving UAW members and medically unnecessary compounded pain creams, scar creams, pain patches and/or vitamins, announced Acting United States Attorney Saima Mohsin.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2021
News Release: San Fernando Valley Man Who Plotted Bombing of Long Beach Rally Sentenced to 25 Years in Federal Prison.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 2, 2021
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Nov. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2021
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Jane Grace Dawson, of New Martinsville, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 30 months of incarceration for a drug charge, United States Attorney William J Ihlenfeld, II announced.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 2, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) announced today that the Health Subcommittee will hold a markup on Thursday, November 4, at 10:30 a.m. (EDT) in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - During the week of Oct. 18, the U.S. Marshal for the District of Columbia conducted an unannounced inspection of the District of Columbia Department of Corrections (DC DOC) facilities that house several hundred detainees who are facing charges in the U.S. District Courts for the...

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that a federal jury convicted Joshua A. Schohn, 31, of Akron, NY, of two counts of production of child pornography and two counts of possession of child pornography. The charges carry a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in prison, a combined maximum sentence of 100 years, and a $250,000 fine.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 2, 2021
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Nov. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 2, 2021
The US Transportation Department published a one page proposed rule on Nov. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 2, 2021
The US Transportation Department published a three page notice on Nov. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Lead, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for receipt of Child Pornography and Possession of Child Pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 2, 2021
The US Commerce Department published a one page rule on Nov. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.