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News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago resident has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison for setting fire to the Boost Mobile Store located at 809 E. 79th Street in 2019.

West Tennessee Man Sentenced to 14 Years for Methamphetamine Possession

News Release: Jackson, TN - Jonathan Wayne Green, 41, of Holladay, Tennessee, has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for possession of over 50 grams of actual methamphetamine with the intent to distribute. United States Attorney Kevin G. Ritz announced the sentence today.

Money Launderer For $5 Million Vehicle Sale Scam Extradited From Spain

News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ION VIOREL IONITOIU, a Romanian national who resided in Spain, was extradited to the United States on bank fraud and money laundering offenses arising from a scheme to launder money derived from an online vehicle sale scam that took in at least $5 million from defrauded consumers.

BVI MAN PLEADS GUILTY TRANSPORTING ILLEGAL ALIEN

News Release: St. Thomas, VI - United States Attorney Delia L. Smith announced that Samuel Davies, of Tortola, BVI, pleaded guilty before United States Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller to bringing an alien to the United States for private financial gain.

USDOJ-OJP-OVC offers new grant application process starting Feb. 27

OVC FY 2023 Expanding Access to Sexual Assault Forensic Examinations grant opened on Feb. 27.

House Judiciary Republicans Expose the Biden Border Crisis in Yuma, Arizona

News Release: YUMA, AZ - House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) led a delegation of 14 Committee members to Yuma, Arizona for a field hearing on the Biden Border Crisis. During the two-day CODEL, members met with border patrol agents, toured the Yuma Regional Medical Center, and visited the Yuma Community Food Bank to discuss the impact of illegal immigration on community resources.

First Congressional Hearing at the Border Turns Up the Heat on the Biden Adminstration

News Release: YUMA, Ariz. - The city council chamber was packed with local residents and sheriffs across the state on Thursday to listen to the House Judiciary Committee hearing about the ongoing crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border, marking the first of such a hearing to take place with the new GOP majority.

USDOJ-OJP-OJJDP grant application closes on April 17

OJJDP FY 2023 National Mentoring Programs grant opened on Feb. 27.

Chairman Jordan and Ranking Members Grassley and Graham Seek Information on Supreme Court Commission

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-IA), and Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Lindsey Graham (R-SC) sent letters to former co-Chairs of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States seeking information on the Commission’s work, deliberations, and true purpose.

USDOJ-OJP-NIJ grant application closes on May 16

NIJ FY23 Tribal-Researcher Capacity-Building Grants grant opened on Feb. 27.

USDOJ-OJP-NIJ offers new grant application process starting Feb. 27

NIJ FY23 National Study Examining Interpersonal Violence Experienced By Young Adults grant opened on Feb. 27.

House and Senate Republicans are requesting details on a commission that was tasked with exploring reforms to the Supreme Court.

News Release: What’s happening: House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and former Senate Judiciary chairs Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) sent letters on Friday to Robert Bauer and Cristina Rodríguez - the two former co-chairs of the Supreme Court reform commission that released its final report in December 2021 - requesting documents and communications.

Chairman Jim Jordan Delivers Opening Statement on the Biden Border Crisis: Part II

News Release: YUMA, AZ - House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) delivers his opening statement during today's field hearing, "The Biden Border Crisis: Part II."

Justice Department publishes 12 notices in week ending Feb. 18

There were 12 notices published by the Justice Department in week ending Feb. 18, according to the Federal Register.

FBI Efforts Since the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

News Release: FBI Efforts Since the Russian Invasion of Ukraine.

At Arizona border, Judiciary Committee to hear from officials about massive migrant surge, strain on hospitals

News Release: FIRST ON FOX: The House Judiciary Committee is holding an in-person hearing at the southern border in Yuma, Arizona on Thursday -- and will hear of the massive migrant surge seen under the Biden administration and of the strain it has placed on authorities on hospitals in the area.

District Man Sentenced to 56 Months in Prison For Shooting Hospital Police

News Release: WASHINGTON - Lynville Porter, 40, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced to 57 months in prison for shooting a Special Police Officer on the campus of Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington DC, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves and Chief Robert J. Contee III, of the Metropolitan Police Department.

“PUBLICATION OF COMMITTEE RULES” published by the Congressional Record in the House section on Feb. 21