News from August 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2022
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - A Jackson man was sentenced to serve one year and one day in prison followed by three years of supervised release and ordered to pay over $402,000 in restitution to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for perpetrating a wire fraud scheme to steal federal funds, announced U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Jeffrey Breen with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2022
News Release: “Our Office mourns the passing of Andrew J. Maloney, who nobly served as the 33rd United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York with a passion for doing justice, a toughness honed as a boxer at West Point and Army Ranger, and supreme confidence in his prosecutors that resulted in amazing...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2022
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - A Pelham, Alabama woman was sentenced today to 12 months and one day in prison followed by 5 years of supervised release and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $621,411.51 for bank fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Jermicha Fomby of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2022
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Marvin Antonio Lantigua, age 31, of New York City, pled guilty today to possessing with intent to distribute a kilogram of fentanyl, announced United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman, Frank A. Tarentino III, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), New York Division, and Syracuse Police Chief Joseph Cecile.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2022
News Release: Ocala, Florida - United States District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. has sentenced Timothy Ivory (44, Ocala) to seven years and six months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Ivory had pleaded guilty on February 9, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2022
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. -Sage Jones, 30, of Sacaton, Arizona, was sentenced Aug. 15, 2022, by United States District Judge Dominic W. Lanza to 188 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release. Mr. Jones is a recognized member of the Gila River Indian Community. On March 24, 2021, Jones shot the victim multiple times, resulting in the victim’s death. Jones previously pleaded guilty on May 13, 2022, to Second Degree Murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2022
News Release: ST. LOUIS - Two former employees of the small St. Louis County city of Flordell Hills were accused in a grand jury indictment Wednesday of stealing a total of $663,000 over six years, well over the city’s typical annual budget.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 17, 2022
There is one release scheduled to be published on Aug. 18.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2022
News Release: Defendant in ‘Grandparent Scam’ Network Sentenced for RICO Conspiracy Targeting Elderly Americans.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2022
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal jury convicted Mary Francis Biggs, age 65, of Lexington Park, Maryland, late on Aug. 15, 2022, for conspiracy to commit theft of government property and for theft of government property in connection with a scheme to fraudulently obtain additional military disability...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 17, 2022
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau will hold a briefing for the National Urban League plaintiffs in the case of NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE, et. al., v. GINA RAIMONDO et. al. The Census Bureau agreed in a Joint Stipulation in settling this lawsuit to brief plaintiffs to allow an opportunity for questions and answers regarding the status of census processing, data quality metrics, and assessment of released data quality metrics.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 12 months in prison for obstructing justice while on pre-trial release, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2022
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A Beaumont man has been sentenced to federal prison for violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 17, 2022
News Release: PHOENIX - A 30-year-old worker succumbed to injuries after an incident at the Rawhide Western Town and Steakhouse at the Gila River Indian Community near Chandler. A federal investigation determined the fatality could have been prevented if the employer had implemented required safety measures.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 17, 2022
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Aug. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2022
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Oleksandra “Sasha" Johnson (619) 546-9769.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2022
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Timothy L. Mulvey, 35, of Grand Island, NY, who was convicted of aggravated bank robbery, was sentenced to serve 77 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. In addition, Mulvey’s parents, Cheryl, 68, and Lawrence, 69, both of Grand Island, who were convicted of accessory after the fact, were sentenced to time served for their roles in Timothy Mulvey’s bank robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2022
News Release: HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - A federal indictment has been unsealed after a convicted felon was arrested on Aug. 15, 2022, for illegal possession of eighteen firearms, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Mickey French.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 17, 2022
Central Valley Project Habitat & Facility Improvements grant opened on Aug. 17.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 17, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $45 million to create, accelerate, and test technology that will protect our electric grid from cyber-attacks to seamlessly help deploy clean and cheap energy to Americans. Cyber threats to American energy systems can shut down critical...
