News from October 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2021
News Release: Miami, Florida - A 29-year-old man has pled guilty in federal district court in Miami to attempting to materially support terrorism, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2339A.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2021
News Release: BOISE - Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael M. Gonzalez, Jr., announced today that the office’s Financial Litigation Program collected more than $10.94 million in criminal restitution, fines, and assessments and in civil debts for the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2021. In some cases, the U.S. Attorney’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - A South Carolina man was indicted today for crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, which disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress that was in the process of ascertaining and counting the electoral votes related to the presidential election. A second man, from Texas, was indicted in the case on related charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2021
News Release: Tacoma, WA - A 63-year-old Port Townsend, Washington, man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to 102 months in prison and ten years of supervised release for raping a 6-year-old child while on a vacation in Canada. John Timothy Whicher pleaded guilty to engaging in illicit sexual conduct...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 25, 2021
News Release: CASPER, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management will offer 25-35 untrained wild horses and burros for adoption on November 5 at the Wheatland Off-Range Corral.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2021
News Release: ATLANTA - Curant, Inc., which owns pharmacies in Smyrna, Georgia and St. Petersburg, Florida, along with its owners and related entities, agreed to pay $4.6 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by, among other things, charging the government far higher prices than the “usual and customary" prices charged to other patients.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 25, 2021
News Release: Today, Monday, Oct. 25, Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park officially closed for the season to through travel. Many popular driving destinations for this time of year including Bear Lake Road, Moraine Park, Horseshoe Park and the section of Trail Ridge Road along the Kawuneeche Valley, are all open.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2021
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO- Khari Moore and Malik Lott were sentenced today to 87 months and 12 months and one day in prison for their respective roles in a scheme to obtain marijuana from a Redwood City drug dealer for distribution, announced Acting United States Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds and Bureau of Alcohol, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2021
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Detroit, Michigan man was sentenced today to 121 months in prison for a federal drug crime. Bandon William Jones, 42, previously pleaded guilty to distribution of heroin.
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 USDA Newswire | Oct 25, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 25, 2021 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced in-person trade missions will resume early next year. The first trade mission is to Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), February 16-21, 2022. The last USDA-sponsored trade mission was held in November 2019, prior to COVID-related...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2021
News Release: Operated snowmobile at Keystone during COVID-19 Closure.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2021
News Release: Prolific meth dealer also sold drugs on Tribal lands.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2021
News Release: DANVILLE, Va. - A Danville man was sentenced last week to 87 months in federal prison for distributing cocaine and methamphetamine.
By State Newswire | Oct 25, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul has released the following statement in response to recent reports that EcoHealth alliance was funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 25, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) introduced the Stop Sexual Assault and Harassment in Transportation Act, legislation to help protect passengers and personnel from sexual assault and harassment in different modes of transportation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2021
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Eugene Dajohn Marshall, 31, of Fresno, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd to two years and eight months in prison, for being a felon in possession of a firearm, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 25, 2021
News Release: NEW YORK - FEMA provides translation and interpretation services in order to reach out and communicate with disaster survivors who speak little or no English. FEMA also has staff and technology to support disaster recovery for those who are deaf, hard-of-hearing or have low vision.
By State Newswire | Oct 25, 2021
Release: The United States strongly condemns the actions of the Sudanese military forces. We firmly reject the dissolution of the civilian-led transitional government and its associated institutions and call for their immediate restoration. The arrest of Prime Minister Hamdok and other civilian leaders is unacceptable.
By State Newswire | Oct 25, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
