News from October 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2021
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A federal grand jury in Kansas City returned an indictment charging a Kansas City, Kansas man with one count of bank robbery and one count of use of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2021
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A Beaumont man has pleaded guilty to hurricane-related fraud in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei today.
By State Newswire | Oct 25, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2021
News Release: MEMPHIS - A federal grand jury in Nashville, Tennessee, returned an indictment Friday charging Tennessee State Senator Brian Kelsey and a Nashville social club owner with violating campaign finance laws as part of an alleged scheme to benefit Kelsey’s 2016 campaign for U.S. Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2021
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A federal indictment unsealed in U.S. District Court in Providence on Friday charges three individuals with allegedly participating in a so called “Grandparent Scam" to defraud at least eleven elderly Rhode Island residents in nine communities of thousands of dollars, announced Acting United States Attorney Richard B. Myrus.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - A newly filed federal indictment adds additional carjacking and firearm charges against a Chicago man accused of murdering a rideshare driver during a carjacking earlier this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2021
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Derrick Adams, of New Martinsville, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 77 months of incarceration for a heroin charge, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II announced.

By State Newswire | Oct 25, 2021
Release: Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry will travel to London, United Kingdom on Oct. 26, 2021 to continue ongoing discussions with counterparts from the People’s Republic of China on efforts to address the climate crisis ahead of the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which will be held October 31 to November 12 in Glasgow, United Kingdom.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2021
News Release: Had Three Previous Convictions for Federal Fraud Offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2021
News Release: Tennessee State Senator and Nashville Social Club Owner Indicted for Alleged Campaign Finance Scheme.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2021
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Missouri, man who downloaded thousands of images and videos of child pornography was sentenced in federal court today.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2021
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri, man pleaded guilty in federal court today to illegally possessing a firearm following a shooting on the street of a residential neighborhood.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2021
News Release: Former Air War College Professor Pleads Guilty to Making False Statements About Relationship with Government Official in China.

By State Newswire | Oct 25, 2021
Release: The text of the following statement was released by the Troika: Governments of the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and Norway.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 25, 2021
News Release: Carson City, Nev. - Kim Dow has been named the new Field Manager for the Carson City District’s Sierra Front Field Office.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2021
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Suzanne Adiyeh, of Morgantown, West Virginia, has admitted to a drug charge, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2021
News Release: TYIESE WARREN, also known as “Loose Screw," 21, of Bridgeport, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooly in Bridgeport to a racketeering offense stemming from a murder and other violent crimes he committed as a member of a Bridgeport gang.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 25, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, released a new staff report entitled, Border Patrol Agents in Secret Facebook Group Faced Few Consequences for Misconduct, showing that most Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents who committed misconduct on the “I’m 10-15" secret Facebook page had their discipline significantly reduced and continue to work with migrants.
By State Newswire | Oct 25, 2021
Release: The State Department is partnering with the Community Sponsorship Hub (CSH), a project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisers, Inc., to support the launch of the Sponsor Circle Program for Afghans. This program will create new opportunities for individuals and community groups across the country to directly...

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2021
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Rhode Island announces today that it is partnering with the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division as it launches the department’s new Combatting Redlining Initiative.