News from October 2021
By USDA Newswire | Oct 14, 2021
Release: Washington, D.C., Oct. 14, 2021 -- The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) today announced confirmation of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) in a coatimundi at a zoo in Illinois. This is the first coatimundi confirmed with the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2021
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A federal jury in Charlotte has convicted Michael Moore, 39, a Liberian national residing in the Philadelphia area, for his involvement in an online romance scam that targeted older adults, announced William T. Stetzer, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad Jr. presided over the two-day trial which ended late yesterday.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 14, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the city of Wynne, Arkansas, to construct a new industrial rail spur facility to support local manufacturers. This EDA grant, to be matched with $500,000 in local funds, is expected to create 200 jobs.
By State Newswire | Oct 14, 2021
Release: Today, the Department of State is announcing two rewards for information regarding Pakistani national and human smuggler Abid Ali Kahn. The first reward of up to $1 million is offered for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of Ali Khan, while a second $1 million reward is offered for...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2021
News Release: Identities of Deceased Persons Used to Claim Covid Stimulus Payments.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bronx, New York, man today admitted participating in a conspiracy to distribute heroin and fentanyl from a drug mill in the Bronx to locations in New Jersey, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By State Newswire | Oct 14, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 14, 2021
News Release: SUSANVILLE, Calif. - Volunteers are welcome to join staff from the Bureau of Land Management in projects to improve the Fort Sage Off Highway Vehicle Recreation Area near Doyle, Calif. on Sunday, Oct. 17, beginning at 11 a.m.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 14, 2021
News Release: ROSELLE, IL - For the sixth time in seven years, a federal workplace inspection has found a Roselle construction contractor putting workers at risk of serious injury or death by defying federal requirements to ensure the use of fall protection.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2021
News Release: Miami, Florida - Yesterday, Coltin Plummer, 29, of Jupiter, Florida, appeared in Fort Pierce federal court and was sentenced to 600 months in prison after being convicted of production and distribution of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Romanian national was sentenced on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2021 in federal court in Boston in connection with an ATM skimming scheme operating throughout Massachusetts and other states including Connecticut, New Hampshire, New York and South Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (NY-10), Chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet Hank Johnson (GA-04), and Representative Mondaire Jones (NY-17) released the following statement after the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States released its initial draft materials today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2021
News Release: Miami, Florida - A Texas man was sentenced in federal district court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida yesterday for knowingly and willfully making a materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statement and representation to Special Agents of the United States Fish & Wildlife Service during a criminal investigation of international trafficking of primates into the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 14, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M, - Beginning Oct. 18, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) plans to implement four prescribed fire projects this fall and winter. The exact timing will largely depend upon weather conditions. Details on each specific project follow:.
By State Newswire | Oct 14, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, led a bipartisan letter to Secretary ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2021
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Marcello Sozio, the former operator of a hyperbaric oxygen chamber business based in Great Neck, New York and Chicago, Illinois, was sentenced by United States District Judge Denis R. Hurley to 36 months’ imprisonment for wire fraud in connection with...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2021
News Release: FERGUS FALLS, Minn. - A Ponsford man was sentenced today to 100 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for violently assaulting a man on the White Earth Indian Reservation.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 14, 2021
News Release: BLOOMINGDALE, IL - A Bloomingdale nursing facility failed to protect employees and temporary staff from possible coronavirus hazards a year after an employee died of the disease.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that defendant TOMMIE MANGO, of New Orleans, Louisiana, pled guilty on Oct. 13, 2021 before U.S. District Court Judge Lance M. Africk to carjacking and brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 14, 2021
News Release: NEW YORK -- You applied to FEMA for disaster assistance after Hurricane Ida swept across New York, and you received a letter. You’re not sure what it says, but you think it’s not good.
