News from October 2021
By Interior Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: LAS VEGAS - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Pahrump Field Office announces the two-year segregation of the application area for the Copper Rays Solar Project from appropriation under the public land laws in order to allow for the orderly administration of the public lands to facilitate consideration of development of renewable energy resources.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: Individual Pleads Guilty to Murder in Indian Country.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Oct. 19, 2021, Michael Muse, age 43, of Brooklyn, New York, was indicted for armed bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 18 months’ imprisonment and 2 years’ supervised release on her conviction of narcotics trafficking, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) confirmed that the health care policies in the House Democrats’ reckless $4.3 trillion tax and spending reconciliation bill will push Americans off the health plans they have and like and onto government-controlled coverage, at a steep expense to American taxpayers.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: Democrats Seek Tax Handouts for Rich Despite Claiming Otherwise.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: Ricardo Cruciani Sexually Abused Numerous Female Patients as a Pain Management Doctor Employed at Various Times By Prominent Medical Institutions in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: An Ypsilanti man was sentenced today to life in prison after having been convicted by a federal jury on charges of distribution and conspiracy to distribute and to possess with the intent to distribute controlled substances, heroin and fentanyl, resulting in the overdose death of one victim and the serious bodily injury to a second victim, announced Acting United States Attorney Saima Mohsin.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The Drug Enforcement Administration will host its 21st National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, October 23 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This event offers free and anonymous disposal of unneeded medications at more than 4,000 local drop-off locations nationwide.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.--U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, delivered the following remarks at a hearing entitled, “Health Insurance Coverage in America: Current and Future Role of Federal Programs.".
By DOL Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and House Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY) sent a letter to Government Accountability Office (GAO) Comptroller General Gene Dodaro requesting information on whether provisions in the nation’s primary elementary and secondary education law supporting parent engagement are being implemented.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former California lawyer has agreed to plead guilty to a fraud charge, admitting he lied to clients about winning cases and deceiving them with bogus documents, some with the forged signatures of judges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane Evans announced that STEPHEN DANIEL DEFIORE age 36, a resident of Brandon, Florida, was sentenced on Oct. 19, 2021 to three (3) months probation, with one year of home confinement by United States District Judge Jay C. Zainey after previously pleading guilty to a...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Richard Garland Jones, 24, of Reading, PA, was sentenced to five years in prison, five years of supervised release by United States District Court Judge Joseph F. Leeson, Jr., for committing an armed bank robbery in April 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: Urbana, Ill. - A Chicago, Ill., man, Hector Castaneda, 59, of the 2400 block of South Springfield Avenue, has been sentenced to twelve years in federal prison for his role in a 1997 drug conspiracy involving almost twenty kilograms of heroin.
By State Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Thank you very much, and let me just first start by apologizing to colleagues because I think I’m responsible for making us a little bit late today. Thank you for your patience, but especially thank you all for being here, and (inaudible), thank you so much for all of the work on very short notice that you put into bringing us all together today, both in this room and virtually. I’m so glad to see so many colleagues here today from across our region.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: Guaynabo, Puerto Rico - The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) assigned a little over $5 million for permanent works in three iconic recreational facilities at the Municipality of the Capital City: Parque Central, Hiram Bithorn Stadium and Luis Muñoz Marín Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On Oct. 19, 2021, United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose sentenced Abraham Christopher Smith, age 39, formerly of Pleasant Hill, to 288 months in prison for Enticement of a Minor announced Acting United States Attorney Richard D. Westphal. Smith pleaded guilty to the...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis has sentenced Lavern Lee Renninger (62, Zephyrhills) to 10 years in federal prison for attempted online enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity. Renninger was also ordered to serve a 20-year term of supervised release and to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Jonathan Ray Sindledecker, 40, of Parkersburg, was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for prohibited possession of a firearm by a felon and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Sindledecker previously pleaded guilty to those two felony offenses on July 28, 2021.
