News from October 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Robert Henderson, Jr., 59, of Tucson, Arizona, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Jennifer G. Zipps to 10 years in prison. Henderson previously pleaded guilty to Distribution of Child Pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: PHOENIX - The Deputy Secretary of the Interior proposes to withdraw 2,598 acres of public lands within the Bill Williams River National Wildlife Refuge (Refuge), subject to valid existing rights. This withdrawal, which would replace the expiring withdrawal at the Refuge, would continue to protect the...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: DENTON, Texas - Revised preliminary Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) are available for review by residents and business owners in portions of the City of Houma and unincorporated areas of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: The park visitor center hours and days of operation will change for the winter. From October 10 to 30, the visitor center will be open Tuesday to Saturday from 10 am to 3 pm.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: DETROIT - U.S. Medical Management, LLC (“USMM") and VPA, P.C. (“VPA"), providers of home-based healthcare services, have agreed to pay the United States $8.5 million to resolve allegations that USMM and VPA submitted to the Medicare program claims for payment for laboratory and diagnostic testing services...
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is ready for the influx of general aviation flights to Las Vegas for the National Business Aviation Association’s convention in mid-October. The agency is working closely with federal, state and local agencies, airport officials and the aviation community to plan for safe, secure and efficient operations at Las Vegas-area airports.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that WILLIAM TISDOL, 22, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 18 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for a firearm offense.
By State Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
Release: FOREIGN SECRETARY EBRARD: (Via interpreter) Thank you. We are here today wrapping up a process that has gone on for several months and that allows us to first affirm that we are leaving the Merida Initiative behind, and that starting today, we start with the Bicentennial Agreement. Why bicentennial?...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Clint Johnson today announced the results of the October 2021 Federal Grand Jury A.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Jane B. Smith, 65, of Hudson, pleaded guilty in federal court on Thursday to attempted wire fraud and making false statements, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By State Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Representatives Gregory W. Meeks and Michael McCaul, Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, along with Representatives Ami Bera and Steve Chabot, Chairman and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, Central Asia, and Nonproliferation, issued the following statement ahead of Taiwan’s National Day on October 10.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former Orange County resident has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for his role in a scheme to defraud the government of Afghanistan out of more than $110 million in funds provided by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to construct an electrical grid in Afghanistan.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: *. The parkwide fire danger has been reduced to LOW due to autumn precipitation. . *. There are currently no active fires in the park. *. There are no fire restrictions currently in place. *. Campfires are only permitted within fire rings in campgrounds and at some backcountry campsites. *. All...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A gang member and leader in a major methamphetamine trafficking operation and a codefendant each have been sentenced to more than 20 years in federal prison for spreading drugs into coastal and south Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Ellison C. Travis announced that U.S. Chief Judge Shelly D. Dick sentenced Corey Roshel Powell, age 43, of Delhi, Louisiana, to 29 months in federal prison following his conviction for a scheme to defraud the USDA’s summer food service program. The Court further sentenced Powell to serve three years of supervised release following his term of imprisonment.
By State Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: Decades before the wildfires of 2020 darkened Northern California’s skies, Blue Lake Rancheria's (BLR's) elders and tribal leaders saw smoke in the distance.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: HARRISBURG, Pa. - The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced today that Public Assistance (PA) has been made available to Bucks, Chester and Montgomery counties in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Federal aid has been granted to augment state and local recovery efforts in the areas struck by Hurricane Ida. Additional counties may be designated at a later date.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: A Dallas man has been charged with unlawful possession of more than 20 firearms, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad Meacham.
