News from October 2021
By State Newswire | Oct 30, 2021
Release: The United States is gravely concerned by the expansion of combat in northern Ethiopia. We reiterate our call for the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) to withdraw from the Amhara and Afar regions, including halting its advances in and around the cities of Dessie and Kombolcha. We urge the TPLF...
By State Newswire | Oct 30, 2021
Release: The United States is gravely concerned by the expansion of combat in northern Ethiopia. We reiterate our call for the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) to withdraw from the Amhara and Afar regions, including halting its advances in and around the cities of Dessie and Kombolcha. We urge the TPLF...
By State Newswire | Oct 30, 2021
Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2021
The Daily Digest section of the Congressional Record published “Senate” on Oct. 25.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 29, 2021
The Senate section of the Congressional Record published “NOMINATIONS” on Oct. 25.
By State Newswire | Oct 29, 2021
“TEXT OF AMENDMENTS“ was published in the Senate section on pages S7342-S7347 on Oct. 25
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 29, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas today issued a new memorandum announcing and explaining his decision to terminate the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) program.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 29, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON — Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that non-citizen travelers who are fully vaccinated for COVID-19 and have appropriate documentation will be permitted to enter the United States via land ports of entry (POE) and ferry terminals starting on November 8, 2021. This ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2021
News Release: U.S. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland today announced the restoration of a standalone Office for Access to Justice within the Justice Department dedicated to improving the federal government’s understanding of and capacity to address the most urgent legal needs of communities across America.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2021
News Release: The Department of Justice, together with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Thursday announced a civil enforcement action against defendants Xlear Inc. and Nathan Jones for alleged violations of the COVID-19 Consumer Protection Act and the FTC Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2021
News Release: A Chinese appliance manufacturer and two of its subsidiaries have agreed to resolve criminal charges for failing to notify the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) that millions of dehumidifiers they sold to U.S. consumers were defective and could catch fire. The resolutions are the first corporate criminal enforcement actions ever brought under the Consumer Product Safety Act (CPSA).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2021
News Release: The founder of a Russian bank was sentenced today for his felony conviction for filing a false tax return. As required under his plea agreement, prior to sentencing, Oleg Tinkov, aka Oleg Tinkoff, paid $508,936,184, more than double what he had sought to escape paying to the U.S. Treasury through a scheme ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2021
News Release: After more than seven years of extradition proceedings in the Netherlands, a Dutch woman brought by the FBI to the United States yesterday made her initial appearance today in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to face charges stemming from her alleged participation in a terrorist financing ring in support of the Somalia-based terrorist group al-Shabaab.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2021
News Release: A North Carolina tax return preparer was sentenced today to 20 months in prison for conspiring to defraud the IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2021
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a 23-count indictment this week charging seven Verbena, Alabama, residents with conspiracy to violate the Animal Welfare Act and to operate an illegal gambling business, among other violations, in connection with a large-scale cockfighting and fighting bird breeding operation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2021
News Release: Three police officers with the Shreveport Police Department were indicted today on federal civil rights charges.
By Tamara Browning | Oct 29, 2021
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service recently proposed rescissions under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973 regarding what constitutes a “habitat.”
By John Sammon | Oct 29, 2021
Tracy Stone-Manning, a resident of Montana, was recently confirmed as the director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), despite accusations from conservatives that she was an eco-extremist who advocated spiking trees in the 1980s.
By John Kelly | Oct 29, 2021
Approximately 31,445,040 people around the world registered for the Great ShakeOut Earthquake Drill that occurred Oct. 21.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2021
News Release: Fraudulently Replicated the Website of a Biotech Company That Has an Authorized COVID-19 Vaccine to Perpetrate the Scheme.
