News from October 2021
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 29, 2021
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - In the weeks and months after disaster strikes, the path to recovery can pose many uncertainties and cause stress and anxiety. FEMA approved more than $116 thousand in grant funding to the state of Tennessee for crisis counseling services to help residents struggling with the aftermath of the August storms and flooding in Middle Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that defendant KIRK THOMPSON, of New Orleans, Louisiana, pled guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Lance M. Africk to possession with the intent to distribute fentanyl, possession with the intent to distribute cocaine, and possessing firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 29, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) announced the committee will hold a hearing titled, “The Evolving Cybersecurity Landscape: Industry Perspectives on Securing the Nation’s Infrastructure." During this first hearing in a two-part...
By Press Release | Oct 29, 2021
As part of the Biden-Harris administration’s goal of deploying 30 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind energy by 2030, the Department of the Interior today announced three major milestones to advance commercial offshore wind energy development.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2021
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Fredericka DeCoteau, 63, Cloquet, Minnesota, and Edith Schmuck, 77, Rice Lake, Wisconsin, were sentenced today in federal court in Madison, Wisconsin for theft of federal program funds.
By State Newswire | Oct 29, 2021
Release: On June 9th, 2021, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta presided over a public ceremony, sponsored by the United States, Japan, and Kenya, to destroy 5,144 excess small arms and light weapons (SA/LW) formerly held by the National Police. President Kenyatta praised the symbolic moment to “retire from circulation...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Hingham man who was previously convicted of money laundering was sentenced on Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021 in connection with a business email compromise (BEC) scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2021
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Rebecca F. Bragg, 37, was sentenced to one month in federal prison for fraud in connection with major disaster or emergency benefits. Bragg will also serve a three year term of supervised release, seven months of which will be served on home confinement. She also paid $4,900 in restitution to FEMA.
By State Newswire | Oct 29, 2021
Release: On behalf of the United States of America, I congratulate the people of Turkey as you celebrate the 98th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Turkey.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2021
News Release: GAINESVILLE, Ga. - Almarud Duarte, David Garcia, Kevin Tello, and Eduardo Penaloza-Pacheco have been indicted for allegedly conspiring to sell methamphetamine by the kilogram. When law enforcement searched their residences, they seized approximately 200 kilograms of methamphetamine, the bulk of it coming from Garcia’s residence in Duluth.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2021
News Release: DEL RIO - An Eagle Pass man was arrested yesterday by the FBI in San Antonio on criminal charges related to his alleged role in a bribery scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2021
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JAMAL ADAMSON, a/k/a “J-Rock," pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court for his participation in crimes with the Cash Money Boys gang, including the June 2010 murder of David Moore in East Harlem. United States District Judge Gregory H. Woods accepted the defendant’s guilty plea.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 29, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) announced that it has experienced strong interest in its American Rescue Plan Build Back Better Regional Challenge, receiving 529 applications from regions across all 50 states and five territories.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2021
News Release: Miami, Florida - In a 15-count superseding indictment, a South Florida grand jury charged alleged members of a gang called “Onsight" with racketeering, armed robbery, conspiracy, murder, and other crimes following a rash of violence that plagued Broward County from 2015 to 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2021
News Release: No Charges to Be Filed Against Metropolitan Police Department Officers.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2021
News Release: Defendants Steered Their Company’s Work To Outside Software Company, Then Laundered Nearly $17 Million In Kickbacks Through A Shell Company.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2021
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Jacob Leonard, age 31, of Canton, New York, was sentenced yesterday to serve 25 years in federal prison for sexually exploiting a child and distributing and possessing child pornography, announced United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman; Janeen DiGuiseppi, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); and New York State Police (NYSP) Superintendent Kevin P. Bruen.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 29, 2021
News Release: YUMA, Ariz. - Fire personnel from the Bureau of Land Management’s Colorado River District will conduct prescribed burning at Mittry Lake Wildlife Area, about 12 miles north of Yuma and near Walter’s Camp, about 26 miles south of Blythe, California, along the California side of the lower Colorado River in Imperial County, between November and March, as weather and fuel conditions allow.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - A Rwanda native, most recently residing in Buffalo, New York, has been denaturalized by consent and departed from the United States under an order of removal following the filing of a complaint citing his suspected involvement in the Rwandan genocide in 1994.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 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.
