News from October 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis Holmes announced that a Fort Thompson, South Dakota, man convicted of Robbery was sentenced on October 5, 2021, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By Timothy Stuckey | Oct 7, 2021
The oldest known human footprints in North America have recently been discovered at White Sands National Park in New Mexico, according to a press release from the U.S Geological Survey
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced that a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Jermell Toney, 35, of Toledo with one count of escape.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - Deandre Young, 42, of Saint Louis, pled guilty to one count of aiding and abetting co-defendant Lamondra Beckley’s possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and one count of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense on Oct. 7 in federal court in East St. Louis, Illinois.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: Pleistocene Palooza: Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument to Host Event for National Fossil Day.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal jury has convicted a ticket broker on fraud charges for scheming to sell thousands of discounted Chicago White Sox tickets without the team’s authorization.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: Kula, Maui - Haleakalā National Park has answered the call for distance learning curriculum for Kula Kaiapuni (Hawaiian Immersion Schools) in Hawai‘i. The National Park Service is recruiting two teachers and a digital media intern to create new distance learning programs in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian language) for fourth graders. This new opportunity is made possible by the National Park Foundation’s Open Outdoors for Kids Grant Program.
By Commerce 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 Timothy Stuckey | Oct 7, 2021
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) announced Sept. 23 its financial awards for the fiscal year 2021 Tribal Climate Resilience Program (TCRP), totaling $13.84 million for several American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) Tribal nations and organizations.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment yesterday charging three individuals with money laundering and aggravated identity theft as part of a business email compromise (BEC) scheme.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-WI) sent a letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona requesting an overdue report regarding limiting student loan borrowing.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: BOISE - A federal grand jury in Boise returned an indictment on Sept. 15, 2021, charging a Boise man with aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Columbus, Ohio man was sentenced to prison today after being convicted earlier this year of conspiracy to distribute heroin. Lewis Von Burks, Jr., 52, was sentenced to nine years in prison to be followed by four years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - A Hot Springs man was sentenced on October 5, 2021 to 92 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release on one count of being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm. The Honorable Chief Judge Susan O. Hickey presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Hot Springs.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - A federal grand jury in San Antonio returned an indictment yesterday charging three executives of iCore Global LLC (“iCore") with fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced that a federal jury has found Lawrence Dunbar, 28, of Cleveland, guilty of felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, possession with the intent to distribute carfentanil, possession with the intent to distribute cocaine and possession with the intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: Defendant trafficked fentanyl, heroin and cocaine throughout Southeastern Massachusetts.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced that a federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment charging four individuals with making a false statement during the purchase of firearms and possession of firearms by a person with prior misdemeanor domestic violence conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - An Eden Prairie man was sentenced today to 120 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for illegally possessing straw purchased firearms and possessing an unregistered firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) issued the following statement after the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas granted the Department of Justice’s request for a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of Texas’ law SB 8...
