News published on Federal Newswire in November 2021

News from November 2021


BLM Christmas trees available in New Mexico

News Release: SANTA FE, N.M. - Beginning Nov. 22, Bureau of Land Management offices will begin personal Christmas tree permit sales for harvest of piñon and juniper. Permits are available through Dec. 23 and cost $5 per tree. Permits and maps may be obtained over the counter at your local BLM Office or online at forestproducts.blm.gov.


Previously Deported Alien Sentenced To Time Served For Illegal Re-Entry

News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Nov. 17, 2021, Hector Bienvenido Amador-Medina, age 34, was sentenced to time-served of two months and seven days followed by one year of supervised release, by United States District Court Judge Jennifer P. Wilson for illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien.


The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Nov. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: Jackson, Miss. - A Canton man was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison for drug trafficking, announced U.S. Attorney Darren LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Brad Byerley of the Drug Enforcement Administration.


News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that Tracie Sonnier, 51, of Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, has been sentenced by United States District Judge Michael J. Juneau to 24 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, on wire fraud charges. Sonnier was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $335,015.67.


Release: MR IPAYE: (In progress) the U.S. Secretary of State Mr. Antony Blinken, Honorable Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama, Honorable Minister of State, Industry, Trade and Investment, Ambassador Mariam Katagum, Your Excellency the U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, Ambassador Mary Beth Leonard, distinguished...


The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Nov. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Nov. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Commerce Department published an eight page notice on Nov. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Justice Department announces $139 million for law enforcement hiring to advance community policing

News Release: ATLANTA - 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. Funding totaling $827,258 was awarded in the Northern District of Georgia.


APHIS Authorizes Importation of Fresh Mango Fruit from Colombia into the United States

Release: Washington -The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is authorizing importation of fresh mango fruit from Colombia into the United States. This commodity will be imported using safeguarding measures across the production continuum that growers, packers, ...


The US Federal Reserve System published a two page notice on Nov. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Au Gres Resident Sentenced to 28 Years in Federal Prison  on Production of Child Pornography Charges

News Release: BAY CITY - An Au Gres resident was sentenced yesterday to 28 years in federal prison on charges of using a minor to produce visual depictions of sexually explicit conduct and ordered to pay $54,500 in restitution to the victims and $5,100 in special assessment, announced Acting United States Attorney Saima Mohsin.


News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan has sentenced Sean Corey McKenzie (31, Jacksonville) to more than 22 years and 6 months in federal prison for attempted production of child sex abuse images. McKenzie was also ordered to serve a 20-year term of supervised release and to register as a sex offender.


Former Margate Police Officer Sentenced To More Than 18 Years For Attempting To Entice A 14-Year-Old Child To Engage In Sexual Activity And For Soliciting Production Of Child Sex Abuse Images

News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard has sentenced Andrew Christian Hammock (48, Boca Raton) to 18 years and 8 months in federal prison for attempting to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity and for attempting to produce visual depictions of a minor engaged in sexually...


Madison County Man Sentenced for Sex Offender Registration Violation

News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Gregory Malecki, age 49, of Bridgeport, New York, was sentenced yesterday to time served (6 months) and 25 years of supervised release for failing to register an email address with the New York State Sex Offender Registry, as required by law.


The US Federal Reserve System published a one page notice on Nov. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


E&C Republicans: 'President Biden and the EPA are proposing more regulations that could raise energy prices even more for families'

Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Republican Leader David B. McKinley (R-WV), and Energy Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Upton (R-MI) released the following statement after the Biden-Harris administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released proposed methane standard


The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Nov. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Wyden statement on HHS overturning Trump-era waivers allowing for taxpayer-funded discrimination in child welfare and reestablishing nondiscrimination policies across the agency

News Release: Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement on the decision of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to reestablish its commitment to furthering nondiscrimination policies across the agency and to rescind Trump-granted state waivers allowing federally-funded child welfare agencies to deny vulnerable children access to the qualified, welcoming and safe families they deserve...