News from September 2021
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Oversight Republicans sent a letter to Jake Sullivan, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, requesting two separate Member-level briefings on the Biden Administration’s reckless “over-the-horizon" ...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) Screening at Speed Program announced the award of two contracts totaling $2,880,741 for concept design and prototype design to Micro-X, Inc., of Federal Way, Washington, to develop a passenger self-screening...
By State Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today gave the following opening remarks at a full committee nomination hearing for the Honorable Jack A. Markell, nominee to be representative of the United States to the Organization for Economic ...
By Ariana Chiarenza | Sep 28, 2021
The settlement brought about the conclusion to nearly 40 years of negotiations between the tribe and the Montana Reserved Water Rights Compact Commission.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: Brideport, Conn. - Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, and New London Police Chief Brian Wright, today announced that a federal jury in Bridgeport has found Anthony...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Felicia Johnson, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, has admitted to a drug charge, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: Four Defendants Indicted for Laundering Target Gift Cards Purchased by Fraud Victims.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-The U.S. Transportation Department’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and NASA today announced the completion of research and testing on a software capability that calculates gate pushbacks at busy hub airports so that each plane can roll directly to the runway and to take off. The FAA plans to deploy this capability as part of a larger investment in surface management technology to 27 airports.
By David Beasley | Sep 28, 2021
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has determined in its initial 90-day review that petitions to add gray wolves in Idaho and Montana to the Endangered Species list "may be warranted" and will study the issue further.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 65 months in prison for distributing and conspiring with others to distribute more than 28 grams of cocaine base, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: Miami, Florida - Affordable Healthcare Solutions, LLC, d/b/a Affordable Healthcare Solutions 1, LLC has pled guilty and was sentenced in South Florida federal court to Receiving Adulterated Devices in Interstate Commerce and Delivery for Pay with Intent to Defraud or Mislead, in violation of 21 USC 331(c) and 333(a)(2).
By DOL Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: GREELEY, CO - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited JBS Foods Inc. - one of the nation's largest meat and pork suppliers - again, for exposing employees to safety hazards at its Greeley facilities, this time following the death of a worker who was installing a paddlewheel.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced DONALD PETER AUZINE (“AUZINE") and BONNIE JEAN LAWLESS DIAZ (“DIAZ") have each pled guilty in federal court relating to their roles in a health care fraud conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Lowell man was arrested today in connection with a scheme to allegedly defraud his clients out of their life savings.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA: A Texas man who distributed child pornography through an Internet messaging service has been sentenced to more than 10 years in federal prison.
By John Sammon | Sep 28, 2021
An annual release of the California condor into the wild was held virtually this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: SANTA FE, N.M. - As part of the Biden-Harris administration’s efforts to permit 25 gigawatts of renewable energy on public lands by 2025 and to achieve 100% carbon pollution-free energy by 2035, the Bureau of Land Management will hold a virtual competitive geothermal lease sale on Nov. 18, 2021. The agency will offer three parcels for leases totaling 3,987.36 acres in Hidalgo and Sierra counties in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: Ernest Shaw Sr. Convicted of Same Crime in 2007.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Timothy Nugent, 34, of Colebrook, was sentenced on Monday to 40 months in federal prison for possession of fentanyl with intent to distribute, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - United States District Judge Stephen R. Clark today sentenced Derek J. Petty to a term of 91 months in federal prison. Petty was convicted by a jury in April of one count of Conspiracy to Obtain a Controlled Substance by Fraud. The evidence presented at trial proved that Petty’s co-conspirator...
