News from November 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - An Allegheny County resident has been sentenced in federal court to 40 months in prison to be followed by 104 months of supervised release on his conviction of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Oregon awardees include four tribes, one tribal commission, and a university.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - An Eden Prairie man has been arrested and charged for fraudulently applying for more than $2.1 million in COVID-19 relief funds, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Charles J. Kovats.
By Ariana Chiarenza | Nov 17, 2021
A new report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics found that Americans between the ages of 25 and 54 are less likely to look for work due to COVID-19.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Thank you and good morning. Thank you to ONDCP and to all the federal partners with whom we have been working on this important issue. This is a critical moment in our country.
By Glenn Minnis | Nov 17, 2021
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has slapped fines on a pair of commercials ships found to have run afoul of the agency’s inspection and monitoring rules and the need to report violations.
By State Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: Today in Karura Forest in Nairobi, Kenya, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Christine Service of The Walt Disney Company, and Dr. Paula Kahumbu of WildlifeDirect, jointly announced an exciting new partnership with the launch of National Geographic Kids Africa, an educational entertainment television series and community outreach initiative designed to inspire youth, families, and communities to protect and conserve the world around them.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - On Nov. 12 a federal jury in Las Cruces convicted two defendants of carjacking resulting in death following a nearly two-week trial.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Bloomberg: Democrats Prioritize Wealthy Over Working Families with SALT Giveaway.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Today, Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee Republican Leader Burgess Owens (R-UT) delivered the following statement, as prepared for delivery, at a joint subcommittee hearing on examining the implementation of COVID-19 education funds...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - The former mayor of Crestwood, Ill., pleaded guilty today to a federal corruption charge and admitted improperly soliciting and receiving benefits from a representative of a red-light camera company that provided services to the southwest suburb.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: GAINESVILLE, Ga. - Jesse James Smallwood, Delveccho Waller, Jr., Bruce Thompson, Judah Coleman Bailey, and Dashun Martin have been sentenced to prison for conspiring to commit arson of a City of Gainesville Police Department patrol vehicle.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, James Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge, ATF Boston Field Division, and New Haven Police Chief Renee Dominguez announced that a federal grand jury in Bridgeport returned an indictment today charging SHAVARIUS SMITH, 21, of New Haven, with firearm and drug offenses.
By State Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: The text of the following statement was released by the Government of the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that Joseph Stanley Harjo, age 40, of Muskogee, Oklahoma was found guilty by a federal jury of Aggravated Sexual Abuse in Indian Country, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1151, 1153, 2241(c) and 2246(2)(D).
By Press Release | Nov 17, 2021
Secretary Buttigieg calls rising traffic deaths a crisis and calls for cooperation among all levels of government, industry, and advocacy to change course
By Solange DeLisle | Nov 17, 2021
Billions of dollars are headed to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that President Joe Biden signed into law Monday, according to the department.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Stan Johnson, age 23, of the Bronx, New York, was arraigned today on an indictment charging him with unlawfully breaching a perimeter fence, entering an unoccupied aircraft, and entering the terminal at the Albany International Airport on May 24, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Miami, Florida - Today, 58-year-old Miami-Dade County resident Willie Curry was sentenced to six months in federal prison by Senior United States District Judge James Lawrence King after having pled guilty to wire fraud in connection with Curry's fraudulent application to the U.S. Small Business Administration...
By Glenn Minnis | Nov 17, 2021
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is weighing the enactment of a rule supporters say could drastically reduce methane and other harmful air pollution from both new and existing sources in the oil and natural gas industry.
