News from November 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - James Flannel, 37, of St. Louis, Missouri, appeared before United States District Court Judge E. Richard Webber on today’s date. Flannel was sentenced to life in prison for discharging a firearm in furtherance of a carjacking that resulted in the death of Boris Iouioukine, a Laclede Cab Company driver on June 25, 2018. Flannel previously pleaded guilty on Aug. 2, 2019.
By Emily Bevard | Nov 18, 2021
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken issued a statement this week blasting Nicaragua’s handling of its latest “undemocratic election,” stating President Daniel Ortega’s victory denied citizens their right to vote.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY - Nov. 18, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina --- Acting United States Attorney M. Rhett DeHart announced today that Micfo, LLC, a tech company located in Charleston, and its chief executive officer (CEO), Amir Golestan, 38, of Charleston, have both pleaded guilty to twenty counts of wire fraud. Specifically, both defendants...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Matthew J. Duncan, of Weston, West Virginia, and Crystal Dawn Roth, of Walkersville, West Virginia, have admitted to firearms charges, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II announced.
By Bob Martin | Nov 18, 2021
Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp. is working to develop an infectious disease preparedness plan that will minimize health-related plant closures.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - The deadline is approaching for New Jersey homeowners and renters who had property damage or loss caused by remnants of Hurricane Ida from Sept. 1-3, 2021, to apply for federal disaster assistance. The deadline to apply is Monday, Dec. 6, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Dr. Moses de-Graft Johnson, 47, a dual citizen of the United States and Ghana, was sentenced to seven years in federal prison, for committing health care fraud, conspiracy to commit health care fraud, and aggravated identity theft. The sentence, following the defendant’s guilty plea on Dec. 18, 2020, was announced by Jason R. Coody, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By State Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
Release: MODERATOR: Good evening, gentlemen of the press. We have had the United States Secretary of State visiting. He has interfaced with our president and with the vice president. He is now here with our Minister for Foreign Affairs Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama, and they’re going to address the press.
By Emily Bevard | Nov 18, 2021
The Department of Transportation (DOT) has issued a fact sheet that details the projected effects of the recently signed bipartisan infrastructure deal, stating it will make transportation systems more equitable.
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 George Willis | Nov 18, 2021
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced more than $25 million in funding through grants and interagency agreements to 85 tribes in California.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - A Moss Point man pleaded guilty to being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Kurt Thielhorn of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: $481,262 Awarded to Three Law Enforcement Agencies in the Western District of Missouri.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: The National Park Service, El Malpais National Monument, is seeking information concerning an illegal timber harvest of alligator juniper trees within the Monument. The trees that have been harvested could be hundreds of years old.
By Karen Kidd | Nov 18, 2021
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is taking initial steps toward designating a new national marine sanctuary of the Central California coast.
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. In Connecticut, the City of Hartford will receive $1,875,000 to hire 15 officers.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Uriel Ivan Portillo, 35, of Bakersfield, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute fentanyl, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Wade R. Shannon and Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: Spokane, Washington - Senior United States District Judge Rosanna M. Peterson sentenced Maddesyn George, age 27, an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, to 78 months (six-and-a-half years) in federal custody for voluntary manslaughter and possession of methamphetamine...
By Emily Bevard | Nov 18, 2021
New guidance to mitigate security risks with the advancement of quantum computing have been released by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to help organizations protect their data systems.
