News from October 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Midland, PA, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of access device fraud and identity theft, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: Allegedly failed to reveal multiple contacts with a Chinese National and business, including messages, meetings in foreign countries, and cash payments.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: The day use hours for park trails have changed due to shortening day length and continuing bear activity. Effective today, October 5, all park trails will be closed from 6 pm to 8 am.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with a November 2020 bank robbery.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Republican Leader of the Higher Education and Workforce Investment Subcommittee Greg Murphy, M.D. (R-NC) sent a letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona urging him to follow the law and work with Congress to reform the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: HONOLULU - In federal court today, District Judge Jill A. Otake sentenced Samuel K. Kapoi, 35, of Waianae, Hawaii, to 18 years’ imprisonment to be followed by five years of supervised release for leading a methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy on the islands of Oahu and Hawaii. Kapoi pled guilty on...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: Seattle -A former Seattle resident, who prior to his arrest resided in Tacoma, was sentenced today U.S. District Court in Seattle to two years in prison for setting fire to the outside of the Seattle Police East Precinct during the occupied protest known as ‘CHOP’, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Tessa...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader Morgan Griffith (R-VA) sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Loves Park investment advisor pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Iain D. Johnston to wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: BILLINGS - An Ashland man who admitted to assaulting a man, causing multiple head injuries while brandishing a rifle on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, was sentenced today to 48 months imprisonment to be followed by three years of supervised release, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), welcomed Mr. David Brown,
By State Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul along with 39 House Republicans introduced a Resolution of Inquiry (ROI) today on the Biden Administration’s Afghanistan withdrawal.
By State Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Representative Gregory W. Meeks. Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, provided the following opening and closing remarks during the October 5th, 2021 hearing titled "Afghanistan 2001-2021: Evaluating The Withdrawal And U.S. Policies - Part II.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Hans Gadson, 35, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced to sixteen years and four months in prison, and five years of supervised release by United States District Court Judge Michael M. Baylson for his role in the Original...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - Olive Street Pharmacy, LLC, and pharmacy technician Irina Shlafshteyn, agreed to pay $1,507,808.50 to resolve a civil complaint bringing claims under the False Claims Act and Controlled Substances Act related to the unlawful dispensing of controlled substances, including some that were submitted to Medicaid or Medicare for reimbursement.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 4, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released text of their bipartisan legislation that strengthens cybersecurity across the federal government, ensures attacks on federal networks...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 4, 2021
News Release: EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Mother Lode Field Office is issuing a temporary emergency closure of the Rocky Bar Road area about five miles west of Grizzly Flats in El Dorado County due to wildland fire hazards. The area was burned during the Caldor Fire and there are hazards to public health and safety.
By State Newswire | Oct 4, 2021
Release: On behalf of the United States of America, I am pleased to send congratulations to the people of the Kingdom of Lesotho as you commemorate your 55th Independence Day.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Pierre, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on October 4, 2021, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2021
News Release: Miami, Florida - A federal district judge in Miami has sentenced 27-year-old Hialeah resident Roberto Ortiz to 78 months’ imprisonment, followed by eight years of supervised release, for possessing approximately 1,700 images and 40 videos of child pornography.
