News from October 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Jan Sharp announced that Shane Robert Smith, 51, formerly of Bruning, Nebraska, was sentenced today in Lincoln, Nebraska, by United States District Judge John M. Gerrard for receipt of child pornography. Smith was sentenced to 28 years in prison and 15 years of supervised release with special conditions. There is no parole in the federal system. Smith was additionally ordered to pay $3,000 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced federal grand juries sitting in Muskogee recently completed two separate August and two separate September sessions and returned forty-six felony indictments, including four superseding indictments.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
Release: Washington - Low-income North Carolina residents in three counties (Buncombe, Haywood and Transylvania) recovering from Tropical Storm Fred could be eligible for a helping hand from the USDA’s Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (D-SNAP), announced today by the U.S Department of Agriculture.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: Church Creek, MD - The National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom program hosted its “International Underground Railroad Month Closing Ceremony." At this event, the Network to Freedom Program announced the winners of its Network to Freedom Awards, the winner of the first Network to Freedom Photo Contest, and highlighted its newest listings accepted in its 42nd Round of Applications.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
Release: NEWMAN, Ga. - Jay Diamond, who has a criminal history with over 30 misdemeanor and traffic convictions, has been sentenced on two counts of false impersonation of a federal Air Marshal.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: Two McIntosh County men indicted as part of a major drug trafficking operation have been sentenced to federal prison for charges including armed robbery.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: HONOLULU - Pearl Harbor National Memorial, Navy Region Hawaii, and Pacific Historic Parks have announced the theme for this year’s National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day Commemoration: Valor, Sacrifice, and Peace. This year marks the 80th commemoration of the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and the subsequent entry of the United States into World War II.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man convicted of Simple Assault of a Minor was sentenced on Sept. 21, 2021, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: Rafael Rondon and Maryann Mooney-Rondon also Face January 6, 2021 Capitol Breach Charges.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: Our national security depends on our ability to secure critical energy infrastructure from cyber threats and attacks. Cyber-attacks to operational technology (OT) networks in the energy sector can lead to damaged equipment and disrupt the flow of the energy people depend on every day.
By State Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), ranking member and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement in reaction to the suspension of Judge Tarek Bitar’s investigation into the 2020 Beirut port blast in the wake of calls for his dismissal:
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri, man has been convicted by a federal trial jury of possessing methamphetamine to distribute.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Grace F. Napolitano (D-CA) announced that the subcommittee will hold a hearing titled, “Emerging Contaminants, Forever Chemicals, ...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) gave the following statement after news reports surfaced that the Education Department plans to overhaul the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis Holmes announced that a Fort Thompson, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury was sentenced on Sept. 27, 2021, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Rodolfo Cardenas-Lara, 44, a Mexican national unlawfully residing in Bakersfield who has been removed from the United States on five occasions, was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for unlawfully distributing methamphetamine, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: Washington - As part of its commitment to ensuring fair and competitive markets for the livestock, meat and poultry industries, on Sept. 21, 2021, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reached a consent decision with MCCS Livestock Inc., doing business as Leflore County Livestock Auction (LeFlore), Wister, Okla., for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal firearm laws, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: HARRISBURG, PA -The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner (CRNP) Kate Cordisco, has agreed to pay the United States $21,000 to resolve civil liability for alleged violations of the False Claims Act.
