News from October 2021
By DOL Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), Republican Leader of the Oversight and Reform Ranking Committee James Comer (R-Ky.), and Republican Leader of Small Business Committee Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-Mo.) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Martin ...

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A former McKinney man has been charged with federal violations related to his alleged participation in a scheme to file fraudulent loan applications seeking millions of dollars in forgivable Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei today.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: HONOLULU - Three defendants were arrested this week in Hawaii on conspiracy to defraud the IRS and other fraud charges. Marciaminajuanequita Dumlao, Elvah Miranda, and Daniel Miranda were arrested and made their initial appearances before U.S. Magistrate Judge Wes Reber Porter of the U.S. District Court...
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: DOVER, DEL. - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), today hosted Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the EPW Committee, for a field hearing in Dover to examine the unique challenges that small, disadvantaged, and ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- Acting United States Attorney M. Rhett DeHart, announced today that Kevin Shacqile Roney, a/k/a “Kevo," a/k/a “Valentine Roney," 26, of Columbia, was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.

By Homeland Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has awarded myLanguage of San Jose, CA, $199,592 in Phase 1 funding to adapt and customize its language translation platform to support the U.S. Coast Guard.

By USDA Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Espirit Trading Inc. satisfied a reparation order in the amount of $26,990 issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) involving unpaid produce transactions.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Receipt of Child Pornography and Possession of Child Pornography.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Tampa Special Agent Carlos Carrasquillo was recently honored for his work in federal law enforcement at the 2021 Viva Tampa Bay Hispanic Heritage Awards Ceremony.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: A man who previously was convicted of a federal drug trafficking offense was sentenced to more than 12 years in federal prison.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: Sentencings. Federal District Court Alan B. Johnson sentenced LUIS SALGUERO-NOLASCO, 33, of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota on Oct. 15, 2021 for illegal re-entry of previously deported alien into the Unites States. He received 12 months and one day of imprisonment and ordered to pay a $100.00 special assessment.

By Commerce Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: NFIB Small Business Optimism & JOLTS Report: Small Biz Businesses Struggling to Fill Jobs and Keep up with Bidenflation.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) joined Congressman Fred Keller (R-PA) sent a letter to Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona raising concerns about delays, in some cases over a year, in applications submitted by institutions of higher education ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Jan Sharp announced that Morgan L. Perkhiser, 37, formerly of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced on Oct. 15, 2021, in federal court for wire fraud. Chief United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. sentenced Perkhiser to 21 months’ imprisonment. There is no parole...

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - A Davenport man, Cedric Cornelius Shivers, was sentenced on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021, by United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey to 70 months in prison for Felon in Possession of Firearm. Shivers was ordered to serve three years of supervised release to follow his prison term and pay $100.00 to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Howard Poole, 43, of Pittsburg, was sentenced on Thursday to 42 months in federal prison for possession of fentanyl and methamphetamine with intent to distribute, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.

By DOE Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
Release: Regional Initiatives Are Helping States Leverage the Environmental and Economic Benefits of CCUS, Delivering Good-Paying Local Jobs
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MICHAEL C. MONROE, 48, of Norwalk, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to six months of imprisonment, six months of home confinement, three years of supervised release, and 90 hours of community service, for tax evasion.

By USDA Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
Release: Private exporters reported sales of: * 396,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2021/2022 marketing year. * 326,750 metric tons of soybeans received during the reporting period for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2021/2022 marketing year. * 132,000 metric...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Sudbury man was arrested today on child pornography charges.