News from November 2021
By Zachary Richter | Nov 22, 2021
USDA talks about several new initiatives to serve the Indian Country.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, and Committee Member Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sent letters to five New York City District Attorneys requesting...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that EVERTO JAVIER URBINA-BALLADARES a/k/a “JOHAN MANUEL ALBIZU-ORTIZ, age 46, a native of Nicaragua, was charged on Nov. 19, 2021 in a one-count indictment with illegally using a social security number in order to obtain employment, in violation of Title 42, United States Code, Section 408(a)(7)(B).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis has sentenced Nicholas Stephen Woodyard (30, St. Augustine) to 10 years and 8 months in federal prison for distributing child sexual abuse materials, to be followed by a life term of supervised release. The court also ordered Woodyard to pay...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - An Iowa City man, Lashaun Calvin Lacy, age 44, was sentenced on Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021, by United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey to three months in federal prison for providing false declarations before a grand jury. Lacy was ordered to serve one year of supervised release to follow his prison term as well as pay $100 to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: POCATELLO - An Idaho Falls man pled guilty to felon in possession of a firearm.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: Thanksgiving is a time for gratitude and togetherness…and pie; but I’d like to focus on the first two.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Kenneth Blakeney, 29, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced to nine years in prison and three years of supervised release by United States District Court Judge Gene E. K. Pratter for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: Washington - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program released 11 topics for the new Small Business innovation Research (SBIR) 22.1 Pre-solicitation. During this period, small businesses can review topics and ask clarifying technical questions regarding the topic requirements.
By Zachary Richter | Nov 22, 2021
U.S. Department of Labor opens online dialogue with stakeholders to expand access among underrepresented communities to Registered Apprenticeships.
By State Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
Release: The United States is committed to using its full set of counterterrorism tools to counter the threat posed by the Islamic State’s Khorasan Province, commonly referred to as ISIS-K, as part of our relentless efforts to ensure Afghanistan cannot again become a platform for international terrorism.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: Involved in conspiracy that distributed over 10 pounds of meth in the Ida County area.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Caesar DiCrecchio, 60, of Voorhees, NJ, was sentenced to ten years and one month in prison, three years of supervised release and ordered to pay more than $8 million in restitution by United States District Court Judge Cynthia M. Rufe for defrauding the Philadelphia Wholesale Produce Market of over $7.8 million.
By State Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, participated in a moderated discussion with U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) at the Halifax International Security Forum over the weekend where he focused on competition with China.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden man was sentenced today to 63 months in prison for conspiring to distribute heroin and cocaine in the Camden area, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: ATLANTA - PruittHealth, Inc. and affiliated entities (“Pruitt") have agreed to pay $4.2 million to resolve allegations that they submitted claims for home health services that were not covered by the Medicare and Medicaid programs, and that they failed to refund overpayments that they had received from Medicare and Medicaid in a timely manner.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: A felon who possessed a firearm pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced today her determination, at the request of several Northeastern states, that a fishery disaster occurred for the 2019 Atlantic herring fishery.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - Karin Hoppmann, Acting United States (U.S.) Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announced the unsealing of a 2019 indictment charging Piero Antonio Lubo-Barros, a/k/a “Nostradamus," (41, Colombia, South America) with conspiracy to distribute large amounts of cocaine knowing and intending it to be imported into the United States. If convicted on all counts, Piero Antonio Lubo-Barros faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison.
By State Newswire | Nov 22, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul released the following statement after the International Olympics Committee (IOC) promoted its participation in a video call with People’s Republic of China tennis player Peng Shuai, who has disappeared following sexual...
