News from September 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: The Defendant Brought a Loaded Firearm Inside a Hospital.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that the Berks County Coalition to End Homelessness (“BCEH") will pay $121,655 to resolve False Claims Act allegations that the public-private partnership organization illegally double-billed the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD") for renovations performed on a property located in Reading, Pennsylvania.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: Op-Ed: Damage to Small Businesses from Dems’ Tax Hikes Will Be Severe and Long-Lasting.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: OAKLAND - Ray J. Garcia has been charged in a criminal complaint with sexual abuse of a ward, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds; Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of the Inspector General (OIG) Los Angeles Field Office Special Agent in Charge Zachary Shroyer; and FBI Special Agent in Charge Craig D. Fair.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: DETROIT - Viktor Gjonaj, 44, a Troy based commercial real estate broker and investor was sentenced today to 53 months in prison after having pleaded guilty to devising and executing a scheme to obtain money by means of false material promises and representations from victim-investors, Acting U.S. Attorney Saima S. Mohsin announced.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Agriculture Committee Chairman David Scott of Georgia issued the following statement applauding the USDA’s announcement on a $3 billion investment in production agriculture resiliency and addressing immediate animal health concerns...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Sept. 28, 2021, James J. Peperno, Jr., age 57, of Old Forge, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury with various bribery, money laundering, and perjury offenses.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: SPRINGDALE, UT - The Human History Museum Shuttle Stop Comfort Station is a new restroom facility that is to be constructed at the south end of the Human History Museum parking lot. Construction of the comfort station is scheduled to begin on Monday, October 4, 2021, with an anticipated completion by the end of March 2022.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: ADVISORY: Republican Meeting: “Weaponization of the IRS: A Sordid History and the Need for Taxpayer Protections".
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: Topline: Ways & Means Democrats’ Reconciliation Bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A Houston man has pleaded guilty to drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: A Rockland man was sentenced today in federal court for making a hoax distress call, Acting U.S. Attorney Donald E. Clark announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: The owner of a Russian energy company has been sentenced to federal prison for his role in a scheme to evade United States national security laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening statement, as prepared, during the markup of H.R. 2891, the Preserve Access to Affordable Generics and Biosimilars Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: Law enforcement agencies in the Waterloo, Iowa, area continue to make communities safer by partnering to reduce gun related crimes and violence. The United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Iowa announced charges and arrests involving nineteen individuals charged with federal gun crimes within the last week.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: DAYTON - Arland Mills, 43, of Trenton, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 60 months in prison for hiring a man to illegally purchase firearms for him.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, convened a hearing with disaster preparedness and response experts to hear how worsening natural disasters, including flooding, severe storms, and wildfires, continue to harm lives...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Agriculture Subcommittee Chair Abigail Spanberger delivered the following statement at today's hearing “The 2021 Wildland Fire Year: Responding to and Mitigating Threats to Communities".
By State Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
Release: The United States and the Government of Qatar have taken coordinated actions against a major Hizballah financial network based in the Gulf. Ali Reda Hassan al-Banai, Ali Reda al-Qassabi Lari, and Abd al-Muayyid al-Banai, are being designated as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) pursuant...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - Lawrence Antonio Jackson, 30, of Sacaton, Arizona, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Diane J. Humetewa to 5 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Jackson also received an additional year in prison because he committed this offense while on federal supervised release for Possession of a Dangerous Weapon in a Federal Courthouse. Jackson previously pleaded guilty to Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine.
