News from October 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2021
News Release: Philadelphia, PA - Members of the U.S. Marshal’s Fugitive Task Force have arrested Christine Dunkowski, 47, and Albert Dunkowski, 54, both who were wanted for Flight to Avoid Prosecution and Default in Required Appearance. On October 6th, 2021, the Dunkowski’s skipped out of their Bucks County trial...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Seekonk man pleaded guilty on Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021 in federal court in Boston to charges of child pornography.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 21, 2021
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Homeowners and renters in Dickson, Hickman, Houston and Humphreys counties with uninsured damage or losses from the Aug. 21 severe storms and flooding have until Oct. 25, 2021 to apply to FEMA for federal disaster assistance and to the U.S. Small Business Administration for low-interest disaster loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2021
News Release: Scheme targeted members of the Congolese community of Greater Boston.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 21, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released its first Strategic Framework for Addressing Climate Change to govern the Department’s efforts to combat the climate crisis. DHS is at the forefront of national initiatives to address the impacts of climate change, including by leading efforts to build resilience in communities across our country.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 21, 2021
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By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2021
News Release: Wednesday, the Department of Justice served a complaint filed against a Montana man to recover a $9.9 million penalty imposed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for nearly 5,000 unlawful and malicious “spoofed” robocalls.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2021
News Release: The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and the United States Attorney’s Office for Utah announced a settlement agreement with Davis School District in Utah to address race discrimination in the district’s schools, including serious and widespread racial harassment of Black and Asian-American students. The department opened its investigation in July 2019 under Title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2021
News Release: A federal grand jury in the Southern District of Florida returned an indictment on Oct. 7, which was unsealed today, charging three Colombian nationals and two Venezuelan nationals for their alleged roles in laundering the proceeds of contracts to provide food and medicine to Venezuela that were obtained through bribes.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2021
News Release: Deputy Assistant Attorney General Arun G. Rao of the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Division’s Consumer Protection Branch, together with colleagues from the Consumer Protection Branch and the FBI, met this week with Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officials in New Delhi to further strengthen law enforcement cooperation. They discussed means for combating emerging crime trends, including fighting rising telemarketing fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2021
News Release: A federal judge in Little Rock, Arkansas, sentenced Eric Scott Kindley, 53, a former private prisoner transport officer, to life plus five years in prison for sexually assaulting two different women in his custody during two different transports in 2014 and 2017, and for knowingly possessing a firearm in furtherance of the 2017 sexual assault.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2021
News Release: A North Carolina man was sentenced yesterday to 33 months in prison for assisting in the preparation of a false tax return and for filing a false personal income tax return. According to court documents, Nicholas Laws, of Durham, was an office manager and a return preparer in the Winston-Salem branch ...
By State Newswire | Oct 21, 2021
News Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres today to discuss topics of global importance, including Afghanistan. They also discussed their shared concern over the worsening conflict in northern Ethiopia, including ...
By State Newswire | Oct 21, 2021
News Release: Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Molly Phee will travel to Paris, France October 22 and 23. She recently traveled to Ghana and Burkina Faso, her first visit to Africa in her current role. The Assistant Secretary and an interagency group will draw from her recent trip to discuss current and future cooperation with French counterparts.
By State Newswire | Oct 21, 2021
News Release: The United States remains seriously concerned at the continued erosion of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including political participation, in Hong Kong. We note in particular the increase in politically-motivated prosecutions, including through the National Security Law, targeting Hong Kong’s ...
By State Newswire | Oct 21, 2021
News Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Buenos días a todos. Wonderful to be here with all of you, with both of these remarkable teams, the teams behind the teams, because we know where the real work gets done. We’re grateful to all of you. And Marta Lucia, thank you so much for hosting us. I had the chance to welcome you to the State Department a few months ago, so I’m very grateful to be here in Bogota, to the Palacio San Carlos, and to be with all of you.
By State Newswire | Oct 21, 2021
News Release: Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry will travel to Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on October 24-25, 2021 to engage with government counterparts and private sector leaders on efforts to address the climate crisis. Secretary Kerry will participate in the Middle East Green Initiative Summit while in Riyadh.
By State Newswire | Oct 21, 2021
News Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Well, again, thank you. Thank you all. And it’s very wonderful to be here today. It’s always wonderful to be outside or almost outside. But let me just start by, Mr. Minister, thanking you for your partnership today and in the important months ahead. And Madame Mayor, to you as well.
By State Newswire | Oct 21, 2021
News Release: MR GALLO: Good morning, everyone. Buenos dias casi tardes. We are live from Bogotá, Colombia. We are here with Mr. Antony Blinken, the Secretary of State of the United States of America. My name is Luis Gallo. I’m a Colombian American journalist. It’s an honor to be here with all of y’all. Hello, Mr. Secretary. Welcome to Colombia today.
By State Newswire | Oct 21, 2021
News Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Hello, Mission Bogotá. It is great to see all of you, and so good to see folks here together. Again, to the band, it really does a sound a lot better than the last time I heard it. (Laughter.) Amazing. Thank you.
