News from October 2021
By Press Release | Oct 19, 2021
The Department of the Interior today announced it would hold five listening sessions and invite public comment on barriers that underserved communities and individuals may face in participating in recreation opportunities on Interior-managed public lands and waters.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: A man who possessed with intent to distribute methamphetamine pled guilty Oct. 12, 2021, in federal court in Sioux City.
By State Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
Release: The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America and the United Mexican States on the occasion of Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry’s visit to Palenque, Mexico.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: HARRISBURG, Pa. - Barely a month has passed since Hurricane Ida traveled a northeasterly course from the Gulf Coast through several states leaving a damaged Pennsylvania landscape in her wake. A major federal disaster was declared for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by President Biden on Sept. 10, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: SAN DIEGO - The Drug Enforcement Administration will host its 21st National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, October 23 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This event offers free and anonymous disposal of unneeded medications at more than 4,000 local drop-off locations nationwide.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA: A South Georgia man holding himself out as a pastor, mortician, restaurateur, and tax preparer has been indicted on COVID-19 recovery assistance fraud by a federal grand jury in the Southern District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: NEW ALBANY - An Indianapolis man was sentenced to 30 years in prison for his role in the murder and robbery of Scott D. Maxie, a gun store owner near North Vernon, Indiana.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: LAS VEGAS - The Bureau of Land Management Pahrump Field Office announces the two-year segregation of the application area for the Rough Hat Nye County Solar Project from appropriation under the public land laws to facilitate consideration of renewable energy resources development.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Connie Wu (619) 546-8592 and Cindy Cipriani (619) 546-9608.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: MURFREESBORO, Tenn. - A two-day undercover operation aimed at addressing human trafficking in middle Tennessee, resulted in the arrest of 12 individuals accused of seeking illicit sex from minors.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: BENTON, Ill. - A Jefferson County, Missouri, man is facing at least 15 years in prison after a.
By State Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
Release: Today in Washington, D.C., U.S. Special Representative for the DPRK Sung Kim participated in a trilateral meeting with Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director General for Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau Funakoshi Takehiro and ROK Special Representative for Korean Peninsula Peace and Security...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Francis Tucker, of Moundsville, West Virginia, has admitted to a fraud charge, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - One resident of Tarentum, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal firearm laws, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: Tampa, Florida - A federal jury has found Clifford Edward Albritton, III (44, Lakeland) guilty of conspiracy to possess 400 grams or more of fentanyl with the intent to distribute it and possession of 40 grams or more of fentanyl with the intent to distribute it. Albritton faces a minimum mandatory sentence of 10 years, and up to life, in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for Jan. 14, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury today charged U.S. Representative Jeff Fortenberry, who represents Nebraska’s 1st Congressional District, with concealing information and making false statements to federal authorities who were investigating illegal contributions made by a foreign national to the congressman’s 2016 re-election campaign.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: BILLINGS - A jury today convicted a Lodge Grass man of sexually abusing two children in the 1990s on the Northern Cheyenne and the Crow Indian reservations, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of New Castle pleaded guilty in federal court to violating federal narcotics laws, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: HOUSTON - The Drug Enforcement Administration will host its 21st National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, October 23 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This event offers free and anonymous disposal of unneeded medications at more than 4,000 local drop-off locations nationwide.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 19, 2021
News Release: On May 19 and May 20, DOE’s Office of Electricity (OE) hosted a Transmission Innovation Symposium focused on Modernizing the U.S. Power Grid.
