News from November 2021
By Press Release | Nov 18, 2021
On Oct. 4, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in partnership with the Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), released a roadmap to help organizations protect their data and systems and to reduce risks related to the advancement of quantum computing technology.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Loves Park woman was charged with fraudulently obtaining more than $1 million from her employer, according to a criminal information filed today by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Rockford.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that INIGO PHILBRICK, an art dealer specializing in post-war and contemporary fine art with galleries in London, United Kingdom, and Miami, Florida, pled guilty today before United States District Judge...
By State Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: HOUSTON - A federal whistleblower investigation led the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration to order a Houston mobile crane rental company to pay a former employee nearly $24,000 in back wages, interest and damages after firing the worker in June 2020 for refusing to drive in excess of federal limits and reported fatigue.
By Press Release | Nov 18, 2021
On Nov. 5, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas released the following statement on the nomination of Kenneth L. Wainstein to serve as Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis at the Department of Homeland Security
By Andy Nghiem | Nov 18, 2021
The U.S. Department of Justice recently announced that Mark Steven Domingo, 28, of San Fernando Valley, California has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for aiding terrorists and attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction at a political rally.
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...
By Press Release | Nov 18, 2021
Rep. John Katko (R-NY), ranking member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, joined Fox Business’ Evening Edit, to discuss the growing national security implications of the supply chain crisis and react to President Biden’s comments accusing Americans of “not understanding the challenges facing supply chains.”
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the guilty plea of GEORGE BRIDI, a citizen of the United Kingdom, for his role in the Sparks Group, an international piracy group that illegally distributed movies and television shows on the Internet. BRIDI pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman.
By David Beasley | Nov 18, 2021
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded $243 million to help the specialty crop industry, including growers of fruits, vegetables, tree nuts and nursery crops.
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. Representative Michael McCaul (R-Texas), ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement ahead of Sunday’s sham elections in Venezuela:
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Erik Hooks, the nominee to be Deputy Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, if confirmed, committed to working with U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, to improve the Building Resilient...
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 the District of Utah, three municipalities were awarded funding totaling $813,436.00.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pennsylvania man was sentenced today in the Western District of Pennsylvania to five years’ probation, including 180 days of home detention and 225 hours of community service, for trafficking in endangered and invasive fish in violation of the Lacey Act.
By State Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul and U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement ahead of Sunday’s sham elections in Venezuela...
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that noncitizens can now change their check-in appointments directly through the ICE Appointment Scheduler. Previously, noncitizens had to change their appointments via phone or in person.
By Press Release | Nov 18, 2021
On Oct. 28, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement regarding H.R. 5376, the Build Back Better Act which includes $1.5 billion in investments at the Department of Homeland Security that address three pressing national security challenges.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: Two Aryan Circle Gang Leaders Convicted on Racketeering Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment today against Gary Stephen Maynard, 47, of San Jose, charging him with arson to federal property and setting timber afire, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
