News from September 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Wenham man was arrested today in connection with a scheme to obtain fraudulent Paycheck Protection Program funds made available under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act by submitting false applications.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - United States District Court Judge Stephen R. Clark accepted a plea of guilty from Deaunta Miller on today’s date, for the crime of knowingly and intentionally possessing fentanyl with the intent to distribute. Judge Clark set sentencing for Jan. 12, 2022. At sentencing, Miller is subject to imprisonment of not more than 20 years, a fine of not more than $1,000,000, or both such imprisonment and fine.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM and the management and operations contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) have torn down a large industrial cooling tower built in 1952, part of more than 85,000 cubic feet of waste and scrap material removed from the site’s D Area complex.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Roberto Montes-Villalpando, 60, of Sanborn, NY, and Abraham Montes, 29, of North Tonawanda, NY, who were convicted of conspiring to harbor aliens for financial gain and causing serious bodily injury, were sentenced by U.S. District...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: A man who escaped from the Waterloo Residential Correctional Facility and later failed to appear in federal court pursuant to a subpoena pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation announces the selection of Levi Brekke, Ph.D. as the senior advisor for research and development. The newly established position provides executive oversight of all aspects of the research and development office and data management activities for Reclamation’s workforce of nearly 6,000 federal employees.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Bob Murray announced today that DALCO GABRIEL WHITEMAN, 53, of Riverton, Wyoming was found guilty on two counts of aggravated sexual abuse and four counts of abusive sexual contact following a five-day federal jury trial in front of District Court Chief Judge Scott W. Skavdahl in Casper, Wyoming.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), delivered the following remarks at a full committee hearing to review the administration of laws under the jurisdiction of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: DETROIT - Detroit City Councilman Andre Spivey, 47, of Detroit, pleaded guilty today to conspiring with a member of his staff to commit bribery by accepting over $35,000 in bribe payments in connection with the City Council’s oversight of towing in Detroit, Acting United States Attorney Saima S. Mohsin announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening statement, as prepared, during a Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law hearing on "Reviving Competition, Part 4: 21st Century Antitrust Reforms and the American Worker...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Two suburban Pittsburgh residents have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of conspiring to commit offenses against the United States, making false statements in matters relating to naturalization or citizenship, and unlawfully attempting to and procuring naturalization or citizenship, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A North Carolina man who ordered and illegally sold highly addictive opioids through the Dark Web has been sentenced to federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: GLENNALLEN, Alaska - The Bureau of Land Management is announcing the availability of an environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact for a proposed amendment to the East Alaska Resource Management Plan of 2007. The environmental assessment analyzes the environmental impacts of potentially making lands near Thompson Pass in the vicinity of Valdez, Alaska, available for exchange. .
By John Sammon | Sep 28, 2021
Vicksburg National Military Park in Mississippi, the site of a decisive Civil War battle that determined the outcome of the war, will begin selling digital (cashless) entrance passes beginning on Oct. 3.
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 Interior Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - On Wednesday, Sept. 29, the National Park Service will close 17th Street between Constitution Avenue NW and Independence Avenue SW from 4 a.m. until approximately 4 p.m. to perform a test installation of the 17th Street levee. Motorists, pedestrians and cyclists should plan alternative...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: Leader of Scheme Also Charged with Fraudulently Obtaining COVID-19 Unemployment Benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following statement, as prepared, on the House floor in support of H.R. 1693, the EQUAL Act...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau released the total number of 2020 Census paid temporary workers that earned any pay Sept. 12 - Sept. 18, 2021. The data tables include national totals for all 50 states and the District of Columbia by Census Bureau regional geography. A weekly number of paid temporary workers for Puerto Rico is also available. The weekly release will occur 10 days after the end of the weekly period.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 28, 2021
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A Bangladeshi national was sentenced Tuesday to more than three years in federal prison for his role in a human smuggling conspiracy to smuggle noncitizens from Mexico into the United States.
