News from November 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Felon in Possession of a Firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that Aaron Isaiah Johnson, age 33, of Haskell, Oklahoma was found guilty by a federal jury of two counts of Robbery in Indian Country, in violation of Title 18 United States Code, Sections 2111...
By State Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
Release: The President today revoked an Executive Order, thereby terminating the Burundi sanctions program and related visa restrictions. As a result, the sanctions and visa restrictions imposed on the eleven individuals designated under this program have been lifted. This decision reflects the changed circumstances in Burundi and President Ndayishimiye’s pursuit of reforms across multiple sectors over the past year.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: BAY CITY - A Manalapan, New Jersey resident pleaded guilty yesterday to interstate travel with intent to engage in a sexual act with a minor, announced Acting United States Attorney Saima Mohsin.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A Woonsocket man previously convicted in Rhode Island state court on child molestation and child pornography charges, and later found to be in possession of images and videos of child pornography while serving a term of state probation, was sentenced today to more than nineteen years in federal prison on charges of access with intent to view child pornography and possession of child pornography, announced Acting United States Attorney Richard B. Myrus.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, woman convicted of Concealing Person from Arrest was sentenced on Nov. 17, 2021, by U.S. District Judge Lawrence L. Piersol.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that CHASITY DOTEY a/k/a “CHASITY PINES", age 27, of Slidell, Louisiana, was sentenced to two (2) years of probation after she pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to alter U.S. Postal Money Orders before United States District Court Judge Mary Ann Vial Lemmon today.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: JILA researchers have tricked nature by tuning a dense quantum gas of atoms to make a congested “Fermi sea," thus keeping atoms in a high-energy state, or excited, for about 10% longer than usual by delaying their normal return to the lowest-energy state. The technique might be used to improve quantum communication networks and atomic clocks.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice today announced more than $139 million in grant funding through the Department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) COPS Hiring Program (CHP). The awards provide direct funding to 183 law enforcement agencies across the nation, allowing those agencies to hire 1,066 additional full-time law enforcement professionals. Five communities in Rhode Island were awarded funding totaling $750,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas -A Texas man and a Missouri man were convicted at trial of Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations charges stemming from their membership in the white supremacy prison gang, the Aryan Circle, between 2010 and 2021, announced U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: Four Executives Plead Guilty to Fraud Scheme that Caused Over $4.5 Million in Losses to the Small Business Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: $559,030 Awarded to Law Enforcement Agencies in the Eastern District of Michigan.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment today against Jose Antonio Nunez De Jesus, 27, of Portland, Oregon, charging him with conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute fentanyl and possession of fentanyl with the intent to distribute, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By State Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
Release: Today, Political Directors (PDs) of the E3 (France, Germany, UK) and the U.S. Special Envoy for Iran held consultations with the Gulf Cooperation Council, its Member States, Egypt, and Jordan in Riyadh.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today awarded $8.5 million to help commercialize promising advanced nuclear technologies. The funding supports five industry-led projects across the country and leverages the latest modeling and simulation tools developed by DOE, in addition to siting analysis and other research activities that will inform the future deployment of advanced reactors on islands or for the potential use in maritime applications.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today introduced the Fairness for Federal Contractors Act of 2021 (H.R. 6016) to ban President Biden from requiring the employees of federal contractors to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
By State Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, took to the Senate floor tonight to object to moving the FY 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) without his amendment that would sanction the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, Putin’s premier energy weapon against Ukraine and Europe.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has begun issuing approximately $270 million in payments to contract producers of eligible livestock and poultry who applied for Pandemic Assistance. Earlier this year, USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) identified gaps in assistance including in the...
By State Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), a senior member of the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees, announced additional members of the bipartisan congressional delegation that ...
