News from October 2021
By Interior Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: (BUTTE, Mont.) - East Bank Campground, along the Big Hole River eight miles west of Wise River, has re-opened, while other surrounding areas remain closed due to the Alder Creek Fire.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: ATLANTA - Mark Melnick has pleaded guilty to a criminal information charging him with conspiracy to commit wire and securities fraud arising from a years-long scheme to manipulate the prices of short-term call options in large, publicly traded companies. Melnick is the second defendant to plead guilty for his participation in this scheme. In December 2020, Bart Ross also pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire and securities fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - The former president of an Ohio healthcare management company has been sentenced in federal court to 42 months imprisonment to be followed by three years of supervised release on his conviction of bank fraud, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: On Friday, Oct. 8, the Biden-Harris administration will issue proclamations restoring protections for three national monuments of historical, cultural, and natural significance - including the unique underwater ecosystem of the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today against Salvador Ortiz-Padilla, 24, of Fresno, charging him with possessing with intent to distribute fentanyl pills, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - An Anderson, Indiana man was sentenced yesterday to 108 months on each count (to run concurrently) in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release on one count of Robberies Involving Controlled Substances (Aiding and Abetting) and one count of Conspiracy and Possession...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Highmore, South Dakota, woman convicted of Sale or Transfer of Firearms to a Prohibited Person was sentenced on October 5, 2021, by Chief Judge Robert A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn - Juan Lopez Gallardo, 44, Jairo David Posadas, 22, Josedad Delacruz, 24, Serguin Castro-Carias, 20, all of Sevier County, Tennessee, and Nolvia Rosme Carillo-Rodriguez, 42, and Pablo Daniel Suarez, 32, both of Miami, Florida, were arrested on a complaint on Sept. 30, 2021 by agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI").
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that John T. Stuchkus, age 59, of Pittston, Pennsylvania was sentenced yesterday to 18 months’ imprisonment by U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani, for failing to pay federal income and payroll taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Today, JAMES LOVE, 52, of Oklahoma City, pleaded guilty to a single-count felony Information charging him with Tampering with a Monitoring Device and Method Required to be Maintained Under the Clean Air Act, announced Robert J. Troester, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Pierre, South Dakota, woman convicted of Involuntary Manslaughter was sentenced on October 4, 2021, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - A total of 340 persons in state and federal prisons and 355 persons in local jails died by suicide in 2019, the Bureau of Justice Statistics announced today. The number of suicides in local jails increased 5% from 2018 to 2019, while suicides in state and federal prisons were stable. Suicides accounted for 30% of deaths in local jails and 8% of deaths in state and federal prisons in 2019, based on the most recent mortality data from BJS.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman and Co-Chair of the Congressional Friends of Ireland Caucus Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement regarding the Irish Government’s decision to join the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) corporate tax agreement...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - A federal jury convicted a Morgan County man Tuesday for using Internet applications to seek images, videos, and live transmissions of the violent sexual abuse of Filipina children as young as five years old.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Committee leaders wrote to Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, Labor Secretary Martin J. Walsh, and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to request that their Departments work together to ensure that the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) requirements to provide individuals with coverage for the full range of contraceptives approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) continue to be protected and enforced.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
Release: Arizona Project Will Advance DOE’s Hydrogen Shot of $1 per 1 Kilogram of Clean Hydrogen in One Decade
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: Defendant Now May Face Life in Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - A suburban Chicago man has been sentenced to eight and a half years in federal prison for trafficking dozens of guns from Kentucky to Chicago.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Highmore, South Dakota, woman convicted of Sale or Transfer of Firearms to a Prohibited Person was sentenced on October 5, 2021, by Chief Judge Robert A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By State Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
Release: Deputy Secretary Sherman: Thank you, and good evening to everyone. I’m so glad that so many people could join us.
