News from October 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: A dozen Lubbock drug traffickers have been sentenced to a combined 106 years in federal prison, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to six months imprisonment followed by a two-year term of supervised release on his conviction of conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- FEMA announced that federal disaster assistance has been made available to the state of New York to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by the remnants of Tropical Storm Fred from Aug. 18-19, 2021.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: Democrats’ Plan for IRS Snooping & Slower Economic Growth.
By State Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX), Chairman Gregory Meeks (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific Steve Chabot (R-OH), and Chairman Ami Bera, M.D. (D-CA) have released the following statement ahead of Taiwan’s National Day on October 10.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Chair of the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Salud Carbajal (D-CA), and Chair of the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Donald M. Payne, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statements on the critical steps taken by the federal government following an oil spill off the coast of Southern California...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: ALBUQERQUE, N.M. - Ryan Cook, 45, of Albuquerque, was sentenced in federal court on Sep. 28 to one year and six months in prison for possession of an unregistered firearm. Cook pleaded guilty on Oct. 28, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: BOISE - Two men were sentenced to 24 months in federal prison for aggravated identity theft.
By State Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The top Republicans on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, and the U.S. Senate Banking Committee expressed serious concerns with the Administration’s recent suggestions it is considering circumventing the Senate’s constitutional treaty authority ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - A Davenport man was sentenced on Tuesday, October 5, 2021 by United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose to 108 months in prison for Felon in Possession of Ammunition. Lee was ordered to serve three years of supervised release to follow his prison term as well as pay $100 to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: NEW BERN, N.C. - A Henderson man was sentenced yesterday to 252 months in prison for carjacking and aiding and abetting, brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, and possession of stolen firearms. On March 10, 2020, Cedric Jamal Kearney, 26, pled guilty to the charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Michael Darling, age 42, of Gloversville, New York, pled guilty today to illegally possessing firearms as a felon and unlawful possession of six pipe bombs.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: MACON, Ga. - A former truck driver and Georgia resident has pleaded guilty to distribution of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A federal jury today found three men guilty of various narcotics and firearms offenses for their roles in a Trenton-based drug trafficking conspiracy, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A Fresno man was sentenced today to 55 years in prison for sexual exploitation of a minor and distribution of child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: STUDY: Democrats’ Tax Plan Ships U.S. Innovation and Jobs Overseas.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, sent a letter to the General Services Administration (GSA) detailing new concerns about former President Trump’s...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Four Disaster Recovery Centers will be closing next week, with one relocating. While these sites will be closing, face-to-face assistance is still available. Survivors can find their nearest DRC online at fema.gov/drc, or text DRC and their current ZIP Code to 43362. Standard message and data rates apply.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: Miami, Florida - Today, federal district judge Kenneth A. Marra sentenced Larry Ray Bon, 62, a former West Palm Beach resident who shot a firearm inside the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in West Palm Beach to a federal prison term of 198 months.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2021
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine-The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that Darcie N. McElwee has taken the oath of office to become the U.S. Attorney for the District of Maine. U.S. Attorney McElwee was nominated by President Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Aug. 10, 2021, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on October 5, 2021. President Biden signed her commission on October 8, 2021. She took the oath of office today from Chief U.S. District Judge Jon D. Levy.
