News from September 2021
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties held a hearing to examine the Biden Administration’s counterterrorism strategy. In her opening statement, Subcommittee Ranking Member Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) emphasized the need for Americans of all races, religions, and backgrounds...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: Plea Agreement Calls for Sentence Between 20-50 Years in Federal Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: WILMINGTON, N.C. - A Rich Square man was sentenced on August 5, 2021 to 63 months in prison for felon in possession of ammunition. On April 2, 2021, Rasean Bolden pled guilty to the charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: Texas oil-and-gas mogul Christopher A. Faulkner has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for bilking investors out of millions of dollars and concealing money from the IRS, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad Meacham.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Loves Park man has been charged with fraudulently obtaining more than $950,000 from three of his customers.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. -A Lexington, Ky., man, William S. Evans, III, 69, was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison Tuesday, by U.S. District Court Judge Karen K. Caldwell, for commodities fraud and wire fraud.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y.) sent a letter to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray requesting a briefing on the FBI’s three-week delay in aiding hundreds of...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: NEW BERN, N.C. - A Rocky Mount, NC woman was sentenced today to 16 months imprisonment and ordered to pay $59,268.00 in restitution for committing conspiracy to prepare and file false tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: Brunstein received pound quantities of meth and sold it in Mason City.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: A man who was shot in the ankle during a shootout at a liquor store in Waterloo, Iowa, was sentenced today to two years in federal prison.
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: Defendant obtained more than $8.7 million in undue federal grant funding.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet Chairman Hank Johnson (D-GA) issued the following joint statement on the Wall Street Journal's report that over 100 federal judges failed to recuse themselves from lawsuits involving companies in which they or their family held a financial interest...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN -U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced that Jeffrey Allen Kaiser, of Ludington, Michigan, was sentenced to 228 months’ imprisonment by U.S. District Judge Paul L. Maloney on Monday Sept. 27, 2021. Mr. Kaiser was also ordered to pay a $300 special assessment, and, when he is...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of West Alexander, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of filing false income tax returns, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Joshua W. McCallister, Acting Inspector in Charge of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Boston Division, Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, and Town of Groton...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ways and Means Committee members hosted a bipartisan meeting with Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala of Nigeria to discuss the U.S. commitment to WTO reforms and global dispute mechanisms to advance free and fair trade throughout the world.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: BAKER CITY, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced that it is seeking public nominations for positions on the John Day-Snake Resource Advisory Council. These citizen-based councils assist in the development of recommendations that address public land management issues.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Today, U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn Jr. ordered Malik Eli Davis, 41, of Charlotte, to serve 15 years in prison and three years of supervised release for drug and gun charges, announced William T. Stetzer, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 29, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Rep. James E. Clyburn, Chairman of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, delivered the following opening statement at today’s hybrid hearing examining the challenges faced by state and local public health officials and departments during the coronavirus pandemic...
