News from November 2021
By State Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
Release: On behalf of the United States of America, I extend my heartfelt best wishes to the people of Lebanon on their Independence Day.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: A man who distributed methamphetamine while illegally possessing firearms was sentenced Nov. 18, 2021, in federal court in Sioux City.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A new online portal for submitting applications to the U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Voluntary Protection Programs is now available. The new portal modernizes the application process for companies that qualify for VPP and makes it easier for candidates to start, continue and get assistance with submitting their applications.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Lakewood man was arrested on a federal criminal complaint filed today alleging he threatened to bomb Small Business Administration (SBA) offices and then, the following year, assault SBA employees in response to his inability to obtain COVID-19 emergency business loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - Dustin Boone, 37, of St. Louis, Missouri appeared before United States District Court Judge E. Richard Webber on today’s date. Boone was sentenced to twelve months and one day in prison for aiding and abetting the deprivation of civil rights under color of law of undercover police officer Luther Hall during the 2017 Jason Stockley protests. Boone was found guilty in June after a nine-day trial.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Republican Leader Richard Burr (R-NC), Rep. Rick Allen (R-GA), and Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) sent a letter to National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Chairman ...
By John Suayan | Nov 22, 2021
The head of the U.S. Dept. of the Interior’s Office of Wildland Fire said in his report that 2021 yielded another record-setting wildfire season, acknowledging the existence of a new normal.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A former Richmond attorney was sentenced today to 44 months in prison and ordered to pay a $10,000 fine for obstructing an official proceeding in connection with his attempts to thwart an investigation into his own fraudulent conduct as a bankruptcy trustee.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: A Mason City man who distributed large quantities of methamphetamine around the Mason City area was sentenced Nov. 19, 2021 to 10 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: For Possession With Intent To Distribute Methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: Damian Williams, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DOV MALNIK, an Israeli securities trader and finance professional, was sentenced to 30 months in prison for his role in an international insider trading scheme. MALNIK was extradited from Switzerland and pled...
By Art Benavidez | Nov 22, 2021
Over 400,000 miles of gas-based pipelines will be added to the country due to new federal regulations.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: Conspirators Distributed 150 kilograms of Cocaine, 8.5 kilograms of Fentanyl, and 50 kilograms of Marijuana; Law Enforcement Seized 15 Firearms from Conspirators, including Six from Pitts, and more than $1.5 Million Cash in Drug Proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Jose Moreno, 26, of Hanford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd to three years and one month in prison for illegally distributing a machine gun, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A Providence man who previously served nearly twenty years in federal prison for trafficking cocaine has been sentenced to ten years in prison for possessing 500 grams or more of cocaine with the intent to distribute, announced Acting United States Attorney Richard B. Myrus.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: A man who was arrested after a Mannford police officer discovered methamphetamine, fentanyl, and firearms in his vehicle was sentenced in federal court Monday, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI -United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced today that Michael Kelly, 30, a resident of Las Vegas, NV, was sentenced to 21 months imprisonment followed by a three-year term of supervised release for assisting in trafficking firearms in interstate commerce.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Jan Sharp announced that Blake D. Colson, 29, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced on Nov. 19, 2021 by United States District Judge Brian C. Buescher to twelve months’ imprisonment for wire fraud. After Colson’s release from prison, he will begin a two-year term of supervised release. Judge Buescher ordered Colson to pay $15,349.58 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Lance Green, age 43, of Bronx, New York, was sentenced on Nov. 19, 2021 to 235 months’ imprisonment followed by three years supervised release by United States District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani, for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Burlington County, New Jersey, man today admitted his role in a GoFundMe scheme that collected money from donors on the internet, purportedly to benefit a homeless man, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
