News from October 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: Admitted She Received Over $813,000 Through False Billing.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: RALEIGH - Acting United States Attorney G. Norman Acker, III, announced that United States District Judge James C. Dever III civilly committed Oliver Lee White, 33, to the custody of the Attorney General as a sexually dangerous person under the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Richard G. Frohling has announced that on Sept. 30, 2021, Ahmad R. Johnson (age 42, of Milwaukee) was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for narcotics trafficking and using a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking crimes.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: NOAA and Kansas State University (K-State) Salina Aerospace and Technology Campus signed an agreement today to collaborate on a first-of-its kind program to prepare students to serve as officers and pilots with the NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps (NOAA Corps), one of the nation’s eight uniformed services.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: A drug trafficker who advertised narcotics on Instagram and Telegram was sentenced yesterday to more than 19 years in federal prison, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: For Distribution of Methamphetamine. FORT WAYNE - Eric W. Johnson, age 40, of Fort Wayne, Indiana was sentenced before U.S. District Court Judge Holly A. Brady upon his plea of guilty to distribution of methamphetamine, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Tina Nommay. Johnson was sentenced to 156 months...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) kicked off Cybersecurity Awareness Month today, following a proclamation by President Biden designating October as a time for the public and private sectors to work together to continue raising awareness about the importance of...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
There were 85 press releases published by the U.S. Congress Committee on Ways and Means in September 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: Pharmaceutical Companies Pay Over $400 Million to Resolve Alleged False Claims Act Liability for Price-Fixing of Generic Drugs.
By State Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul released the following statement in reaction to the Independent Commission’s report on allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse by World Health Organization (WHO) employees during the Ebola response in the Democratic...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: Big Hole National Battlefield Visitor Center to Reopen.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced loan interest rates for October 2021, which are effective Oct. 1, as well as marketing assistance loan rates for upland cotton in 2022. USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) loans provide important access to capital to help agricultural producers start or expand their farming operation, purchase equipment and storage structures or meet cash flow needs.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), introduced the Cape and Antler Preservation Enhancement (CAPE) Act. The CAPE Act provides discretion to the National Park Service (NPS) to donate the cape, hide, horn, and antlers obtained from non-native species during wildlife management activities to volunteers or others authorized by the park service.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced Rapid City, South Dakota man, has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Escape from Custody and Criminal Contempt.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that JOHNNY WOODEN, age 21, from Orleans Parish, pled guilty on Sept. 28, 2021 to a one-count indictment for possession of a firearm while under indictment, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(n). WOODEN was initially indicted by a Federal Grand Jury on August 7, 2020.
By State Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Representatives Gregory W. Meeks, Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Karen Bass, Chair of the Africa, Global Health, and Global Human Rights subcommittee, Tom Malinowski and Sara Jacobs issued the following statement regarding Mali’s scheduled elections and transition to a civilian-led government in early 2022...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: National Community Policing Week, Oct. 3-9.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: West Texas Gas Companies Agree to Pay $3 Million Civil Penalty in Federal Settlement Requiring $5 Million in Safety Improvements and Clean Air Act Compliance at Eight Natural Gas Processing Plants.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: Defendants Killed the Owner of Family Business While Trying to Collect a Debt.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2021
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. -Deangelo Foster, 24, of the 1300 block of Condit Street in Decatur, Illinois, was sentenced today to 84 months’ imprisonment for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
