News from October 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Cut Bank man convicted of strangling and assaulting a woman on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation was sentenced on Wednesday to 42 months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said today.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: Jewel Cave National Monument will offer final cave tours this season on Saturday, October 9th. The monument had success in leading both Historic Lantern Tours and modified Discovery Tours over the summer months. The Historic Lantern Tours finished for the season back in mid-September to make way for...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, led a hearing urging her colleagues to support the nominations of Lisa Gomez to serve as Assistant Secretary for the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: FORT SMITH, Ark. - A Marshalltown IA, women and a Greenville MS, man were sentenced to 20 years combined in prison followed by five years each of supervised release on one count of Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine. The Honorable Judge P.K Holmes, III presided over the sentencing hearings in the United States District Court in Fort smith.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, President Joe Bidenannounced he will be unilaterally expanding the boundaries of Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: COLUMBUS, OH - An explosion and fire that killed a press operator and hospitalized eight other employees of Yenkin-Majestic Paint Corp. could have been prevented had the employer not altered a kettle reactor vessel improperly and then returned the vessel to service after it failed following the alterations, a federal workplace safety inspection has found.
By State Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.- House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul released the following statement in response to Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak’s comments linking the certification of the Russian malign influence Nord Stream 2 pipeline project to Russia’s role in the European...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - On October 7, 2002, Robert L. Bolden, Sr., and two other men attempted to rob the Bank of America located in the Halls Ferry Circle in St. Louis City. Bolden, armed with a revolver, contacted Nathan Ley, 25, the security guard stationed outside one of the bank entrances. Ley refused to surrender...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: A Claremore man who possessed over a thousand images of child pornography was sentenced today in federal court, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The owners of separate and unrelated businesses pleaded guilty in federal court in Providence to charges they failed to report substantial amounts of income to the Internal Revenue Service and failed to pay taxes on the income, announced Acting United States Attorney Richard B. Myrus.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Agriculture Committee Chairman David Scott of Georgia issued the following statement applauding the announcement of Rod Snyder as EPA Agriculture Advisor...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Bob Murray announced today that SAMANTHA R DEHRING, age 25 of Carol Stream, Illinois, pleaded guilty to willfully remaining, approaching, and photographing wildlife within 100 yards. The other count, feeding, touching, teasing, frightening, or intentionally disturbing wildlife...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: Dr. Frank Parasmo was a Leading Prescriber of Oxycodone in New York State.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A former south Texas police officer man will spend the next 10 years behind bars for possessing child pornography, following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis Holmes announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of a Firearm and Ammunition by a Prohibited Person was sentenced on October 4, 2021, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - A federal jury deliberated for just under 90 minutes before returning a guilty verdict against Joseph Allen Wilcher, 40, of the 1800 block of Western Drive SW in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on October 6, 2021, for one count of attempted enticement of a minor and one count of traveling with the...
By State Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
Release: The climate crisis poses a serious threat to the Department of State’s mission of advancing the interests, health, safety, and economic prosperity of the American people. With thousands of personnel spread out over 270 posts in 190 countries, the Department understands the urgency of frequent extreme weather events and other climate impacts taking place around the world and is committed to enhancing resilience in our workforce, facilities, and operations.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Richard Allen Clark, 55, of Lenoir, N.C., was sentenced to 48 months in prison today for embezzling more than $1 million from his former employer, announced William T. Stetzer, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. In addition to the prison term imposed, U.S. District Judge Kenneth D. Bell also ordered Clark to serve three years of supervised release, and to pay $980,000 as restitution to his victims and $194,750 to the IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that AISHA THOMPSON (“THOMPSON"), age 43, of New Orleans, Louisiana, entered a plea of guilty on October 6, 2021 to Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371, arising out of staged automobile accidents with tractor-trailers occurring in New Orleans.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. - A federal jury in Central Islip returned a guilty verdict this afternoon against Frank Parasmo, a medical doctor with an office in Deer Park, on 31 counts of unlawfully distributing oxycodone, a highly addictive prescription painkiller, and one count of unlawfully distributing hydrocodone, ...
