News from October 2021
By Interior Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site (NHS) is increasing public access to the visitor center and park programming beginning Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021. Visitors can expect.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) announced today that the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee will hold a fully remote legislative hearing on Thursday, Oct. 14, at 12 p.m. (EDT). The hearing is entitled, “Investing in American Jobs: Legislation to Strengthen Manufacturing and Competitiveness."
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: Memphis, TN - Deeric Walton, 25, has been sentenced to 57 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph C. Murphy Jr., announced the sentenced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - David Lee White, 56, of Chandler, Arizona, pleaded guilty on Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021, to two counts of distribution of heroin, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Massachusetts man who became the first person in the country charged with fraudulently seeking forgivable pandemic relief small business loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, and who faked suicide...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On October 6, 2021, a Federal Grand Jury in Knoxville returned a multi-count Indictment against two individuals charging violations of federal offenses prohibiting public officials from taking cash payments in exchange for official acts.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
Release: Dolores Huerta “To the young people: this is your future, this is your planet”
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: HONOLULU - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging Courtney Gene Jeter, 61, Janet Pauline Nelson, 62, and David Abraham Monalim, 46, with conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute (1) 50 grams or more of methamphetamine; (2) 400 grams or more of a mixture or substance...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Tameshwar Ammar, a former medical doctor in Roslyn, New York, was sentenced by United States District Judge Denis R. Hurley to five years’ imprisonment for conspiring to illegally distribute oxycodone. In June 2020, Ammar relinquished his license to practice medicine. In July 2020, Ammar pleaded guilty to the charge. As part of his sentence, Ammar agreed to forfeit $245,700 in criminal proceeds.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: MENTOR, OHIO-James A. Garfield National Historic Site will begin its winter hours of operation on Monday, Nov. 1, 2021. The Site’s winter hours will be Friday-Saturday-Sunday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. The Site’s buildings will be closed to the public Monday-Thursday; the grounds will be open daily, including on days the buildings are closed.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Ever Flores, a member of the Sailors Locos Salvatruchas Westside (Sailors) clique of La Mara Salvatrucha, also known as the MS-13, a transnational criminal organization, pleaded guilty to racketeering charges relating to his participation in the murder of Dewann Stacks and a conspiracy to distribute cocaine and marijuana. The proceeding was held before United States Circuit Judge Joseph F. Bianco.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: 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 DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Hudson County, New Jersey, man will make his initial appearance today on charges that he defrauded victims by promising to invest their money in a ticket purchase and resale business, when in fact he diverted their investments for his own personal use and benefit and to pay back prior investors, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Sisseton, South Dakota, man convicted of Robbery and Aiding and Abetting was sentenced on October 4, 2021 by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: 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 DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 36-year-old Corpus Christi gang member with a lengthy criminal history has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of firearms and drug trafficking offenses, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Wahpeton, North Dakota, man convicted of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon was sentenced on October 4, 2021 by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced that Jonathan Donnell, 33, of Elyria, Ohio, was sentenced today by Judge John R. Adams to thirteen and a half years imprisonment after Donnell was found guilty by a jury of interference with commerce by robbery and using or carrying, and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and collaborators have devised and tested a new, highly sensitive method of detecting and counting defects in transistors - a matter of urgent concern to the semiconductor industry as it develops new materials for next-generation devices. These defects limit transistor and circuit performance and can affect product reliability.
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.
