News from October 2021
By DOL Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: CUSSETA, AL - A 64-year-old employee suffered an arm amputation, federal workplace safety investigators found, as a result of a Cusseta auto parts manufacturer and supplier’s willful failure to follow required safety standards.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar today sentenced Charvez Deonte Brooks, age 32, of Gwynn Oak, Maryland, to 124 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to commit a commercial robbery in connection with the robbery of a gas station owner. Brooks was convicted of that charge on Aug. 20, 2020, after a five-day trial. Brooks has been detained since his arrest.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Two Springfield, Illinois, residents - Heather Horrighs, 42, and Theodis Parnell, 50 - were arrested on Oct. 14, 2021, for allegedly robbing the Alliance Community Bank on Sept. 13, 2021.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), in partnership with iHeartMedia Boston, today announced it has completed an important emergency radio broadcast facility modernization project at iHeartMedia’s WBZ NewsRadio 1030 in Boston to improve critical alert and warning capabilities when disasters threaten public safety.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: Kansas City, MO - United States Marshal Mark S. James announced today the results of Operation Triple Beam, conducted in Kansas City during the summer of 2021.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: Wind Cave National Park, S.D. - Planning is underway to burn 676 acres of land surrounding the park’s developed area this fall and 669 acres adjacent to the Elk Mountain Campground next spring. The fall burn could occur as early as the week of October 18.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: Some 900 pills seized from his home; same pills linked to overdose death.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former Newark city official and officer of the Newark Community Economic Development Corp. (NCEDC), along with two Newark business owners, were indicted today by a federal grand jury in connection with a conspiracy for the official to obtain corrupt payments intended to influence and reward him for assisting the business owners with the acquisition and redevelopment of various Newark-owned properties, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: Reagor Dykes Auto Group owner Bart Reagor was convicted today of lying to a bank about his company's prospects, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad Meacham.
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 US DOT Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: DOVER, Del. - U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today joined U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the EPW Committee, for a field hearing in Dover, Delaware to examine the unique challenges that small, disadvantaged, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Steven Martin, 39, of Bakersfield, pleaded guilty today to burglarizing a post office, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Gaithersburg, Maryland, husband and wife pleaded guilty on September 30 and today, respectively, to engaging in a kickback scheme in which they unlawfully received money related to a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) grant program and to conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) by not paying income taxes on the kickbacks they received.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) released the following statement...
By State Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
Release: The United States, through the Department of State’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM), is providing more than $20 million in additional assistance to help meet urgent humanitarian needs for the nearly 700,000 asylum seekers, refugees, and vulnerable migrants in Central America and Mexico. This additional funding brings the total U.S. humanitarian assistance for Central America and Mexico to more than $331 million for Fiscal Year 2021.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), Committee on Education and Labor Ranking Member Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), and Committee on Small Business Ranking Member Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-Mo.) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Martin...
By State Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: Molly Phee, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister Counselor, was sworn in as the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs on Sept. 30, 2021. She most recently served as the Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation. She was U.S. Ambassador...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT -The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Ronald Rogers, age 31, an inmate at the United States Penitentiary Allenwood (USP Allenwood) was indicted by the federal grand jury for possessing a weapon in prison and threatening to assault and murder a law enforcement officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: A felon who escaped from a Waterloo halfway house following a federal gun conviction and was later found with a stolen firearm was sentenced on Oct. 14, 2021, to more than five years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2021
News Release: Six Individuals in Hawaii Charged with Conspiring to Defraud the IRS and Other Fraud Offenses.
