News from October 2021
By DOL Newswire | Oct 6, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), released the following statement on the Senate confirming Lisa Brown to serve as General Counsel of the Department of Education, Gwen Graham to serve as Assistant Secretary...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2021
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Johny Bixby, 35, of Addison, Vermont, was charged by criminal complaint in United States District Court in Burlington, Vermont, with one count of obstruction of commerce by robbery and one count of using a firearm during...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 6, 2021
Release: On October 6, 2021, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced availability of credit guarantees for sales of U.S. agricultural commodities under the Commodity Credit Corporation’s (CCC) Export Credit Guarantee Program (GSM-102) for fiscal year 2022. Further details of the announcement may be found at.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2021
News Release: Greenbelt, Md., - Alicia Marie Walls, age 28, of Bowie, Maryland; and Andrew Joseph Trimmer, age 32, of Bowie, Maryland pleaded guilty on October 4, 2021, to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute controlled substances and, possession with intent to distribute controlled substances. Trimmer also pled guilty to assault on a federal officer.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 6, 2021
News Release: Salt Flat, Texas - By the end of the month, colorful fall foliage should adorn the mountain slopes and canyons of Guadalupe Mountains National Park. Colors traditionally peak around the last two weekends of October with good color development through the first week of November, but each year is unique, depending on weather and environmental factors.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Paterson, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 55 months in prison for distributing fentanyl, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2021
News Release: Virginia Man Sentenced to 20 Years for Production and Receipt of Child Sexual Abuse Material.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2021
News Release: BAY CITY - A Texas woman was sentenced today to six months in federal prison for introducing a misbranded drug into interstate commerce, announced Acting United States Attorney Saima Mohsin.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2021
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A former resident of Clinton County, PA pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2021
News Release: Defendant Ran a Business That Supplied Info to Attorneys.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 6, 2021
Release: Washington - U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) awarded nearly $53 million across eight grant programs to state and local agencies and partners to enhance the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). These grants, released throughout August and September 2021, will help ensure program operators and partners have the resources, support, and capacity to deliver SNAP benefits efficiently and effectively.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2021
News Release: MACON, Ga. - A federal jury convicted a Macon resident with a lengthy criminal history of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, heroin and Tramadol, as well as illegally possessing a firearm and possessing a gun in furtherance of drug trafficking this afternoon.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 6, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement in response to the Education Department’s unilateral changes to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2021
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - Two Lyon County men have each been sentenced to one year of probation and ordered to pay $1,138,772.06 in restitution for causing thousands of gallons of oil to spill into the Yellow Medicine River.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2021
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Austin Pratt, age 24, of Syracuse, was sentenced in federal court today to serve 20 years in prison for Sexual Exploitation of a Child and Distribution of Child Pornography, announced Acting United States Attorney Antionette T. Bacon, Janeen DiGuiseppi, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and New York State Police Superintendent Kevin Bruen.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2021
News Release: Lorenzo A. Pacheco, 31 of Mt. Morris and a Spanish Cobras gang member, was sentenced on October 6, 2021 to 63 months in federal prison following his conviction for being a felon in possession of a firearm, Acting U.S. Attorney Saima S. Mohsin announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2021
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 45-year-old Laredo resident has been ordered to federal prison for his role as a leader-organizer in a meth distribution conspiracy, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2021
News Release: STATESBORO, GA - Seven defendants are accused of participating in a major drug trafficking conspiracy in an indictment newly unsealed in U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2021
News Release: Concord, NH - The U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force is pleased to announce that this week’s slated “Fugitive of the Week" has surrendered to the Alton Police Department.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 6, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform and Rep. Ro Khanna, Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Environment led a letter to the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) and the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) requesting information related to the recent crude oil spill from the San Pedro Bay Pipeline, which is owned by Amplify Energy Corporation (Amplify Energy).
