News from October 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA- On Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2021, Bradley Shane McCorkle, age 51, formerly of Moline, Illinois, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey to 41 months in prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with a scheme to alter and rollback odometer mileage...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Lumberton man was sentenced today to 192 months in prison for possessing firearms as a convicted felon. On June 9, 2021, Michael Hucks pled guilty to the charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: DENVER - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces that a federal jury in Denver has found Zyaire Williams, age 21, guilty of possession of ammunition by a prohibited person. The jury announced its verdict on Oct. 14, 2021. Trial began in federal court on Oct. 12, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: The Acting United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Craig Cowles, 53, of Richmond, Vermont, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Burlington to five years of probation following his guilty plea to federal income tax evasion. Chief District Judge Geoffrey Crawford...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: LAS VEGAS -- The Bureau of Land Management published the Public Notice of Legal Land Description and Map Availability for the Nevada Test and Training Range in the Federal Register on [INSERT DATE]. This notice provides notification of the official legal land description for the public lands withdrawn and reserved for use by the Secretary of the Air Force for military purposes.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Charles W. Whitcher, age 41, of Port Leyden, New York, was sentenced On Oct. 13, 2021 in federal court to 51 months in prison after previously pleading guilty to distribution and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, possession of Pseudoephedrine with the intent to manufacture methamphetamine, and maintaining a drug-involved premises.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: Breon Peace was sworn in earlier today as United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York by United States Chief District Judge Margo K. Brodie. He was appointed by President Joseph R. Biden. As U.S. Attorney, Mr. Peace leads an office that is responsible for all federal criminal and civil...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: LAS VEGAS - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Las Vegas Field Office today announced it is seeking public comment on Clark County Real Property Management’s proposal to lease and subsequently convey approximately 10 acres of public land for a public park and related facilities. The parcel is located near the intersection of Patrick Lane and Tee Pee Lane in the southwestern part of the Las Vegas Valley.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JESSICA STUART, 38, of Fairfield, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 27 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for health care fraud and identity theft offenses.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: Beginning Monday, Oct. 18, National Park Service (NPS) fire managers will begin pile burning along the Hwy. 64 corridor on the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $20 million in funding to four projects working to accelerate the regional deployment of carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS). The projects, representing all four corners of the country, are referred to as DOE’s Regional...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - A Jackson man was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Darren LaMarca and Special Agent in Jermicha Fomby of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Parker, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on Oct. 14, 2021, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: Biden’s Global Tax Surrender: Higher Taxes & Fewer Jobs for Americans, Windfall for Foreign Competitors.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: RODANTHE, NC - A federal workplace safety investigation found that established procedures were ignored, causing a 42-year-old welder on the Bonner Bridge in Rodanthe to fall more than 50 feet to his death when the structure collapsed on April 14.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar today sentenced MS-13 leader Jorge Guerra-Castillo, a/k/a “Pelon", age 40, of Silver Spring, Maryland, to 45 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for his role in a racketeering conspiracy, including three violent murders and two attempted murders, leaving one of the victims without the use of his hand, which was nearly severed during the murder attempt.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO-The National Park Service (NPS) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) are seeking public feedback on a combined draft Air Tour Management Plan (ATMP) that is being proposed for Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Muir Woods National Monument, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, and Point Reyes National Seashore.
By State Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: Ervin Massinga is a Foreign Service Minister Counselor and is the State Department’s Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of African Affairs. Between 2020 and 2021, he served as the Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, and between...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. B A Camden County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 180 months in prison for conspiring to distribute heroin and cocaine in the city of Camden, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: Montgomery, Ala. - Today, Acting United States Attorney Sandra J. Stewart and IRS-Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge James E. Dorsey announced that two Montgomery women, operating separate tax preparation businesses, have pleaded guilty to aiding and assisting in the preparation of false...
