News from November 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that TREA FRASER, 27, of New Haven, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Rogersville, Missouri, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for the sexual exploitation of three child victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A superseding indictment unsealed today charges the founder of a Philippines-based church and two top administrators of orchestrating a sex trafficking operation that coerced girls and young women to have sex with the church’s leader under threats of “eternal damnation.".
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
Release: NEW YORK - Before you agree to bring a family favorite food item to contribute to the Thanksgiving holiday table, it’s important to think about how you’re planning to transport it if you are flying to spend the holiday with family or friends. Most foods can be carried through a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoint, but there are some items that will need to be transported in checked baggage.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Nov. 18, 2021, Justin Claude Richardson, 29, currently of Erwin, TN was sentenced by the Honorable R. Leon Jordan, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Greeneville, to serve 160 months in federal prison. Upon release, Richardson will...
By Press Release | Nov 18, 2021
On Oct. 26, at a virtual event with Mayor Eric Garcetti, California Water Resources Control Board Chair Joaquin Esquivel, and other officials, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Assistant Administrator for Water Radhika Fox announced a $224 million Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) loan to the City of Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: BOISE - A federal jury sitting in Boise convicted a Mountain Home man on Nov. 16, 2021 for unlawful possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: Wenatchee, Washington Man Sentenced to Over 17 Years in Federal Prison for Production of Child Pornography Spokane - Today, Vanessa R. Waldref, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Jose A. Mendoza, age 32, of Wenatchee, Washington, was sentenced after pleading...
By Press Release | Nov 18, 2021
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal is a generational investment in America’s transportation network. It will allow the nation to modernize its infrastructure, making it safer and more resilient.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Vincent Williams, 40, of Charleston, was sentenced today to 10 years in federal prison for distribution of five grams or more of methamphetamine.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: (BILLINGS, Mont.) - It’s never too early to plan your next adventure. Stop by your local Bureau of Land Management office to pick up a free guide to BLM recreation sites in Montana.
By Press Release | Nov 18, 2021
As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) marks November as Native American Heritage Month, the agency is announcing over $25 million in funding through grants and interagency agreements to 85 tribes in California to invest in environmental programs and water infrastructure.
By Press Release | Nov 18, 2021
The U.S. Department of Transportation today released its October 2021 Air Travel Consumer Report (ATCR) on airline operational data compiled for the month of August 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: HOUSTON - Two ophthalmologists and their eye clinic must pay millions of dollars for fraudulently billing Medicare in relation to the evaluation and treatment of glaucoma, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - A local area woman pleaded guilty in federal court in connection with her role as the coordinator of a human smuggling operation in Avondale, Ariz., following a probe by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Nogales assisted by U.S. Border Patrol.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: Jackson, Miss.- A Philadelphia man was sentenced to 144 months in federal prison for distribution of methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, announced U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Jack P. Staton, Acting Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans.
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 Press Release | Nov 18, 2021
As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) marks November as Native American Heritage Month, the agency is announcing over $23 million in funding to 17 tribes in Arizona to invest in environmental protection programs and water infrastructure.
By Press Release | Nov 18, 2021
Today, House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet Chair Hank Johnson (D-GA) led a letter to Chief Justice John Roberts and Circuit Judge Charles Wilson urging an investigation into the conduct of two federal judges for their hiring of a law clerk with a history of nakedly racist and hateful conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2021
News Release: Peoria, Ill. -Benjamin J. Wilson, 42, previously of Peoria, Ill, was sentenced on Nov. 18, 2021, to 90 months’ imprisonment for possession of child pornography.
