News from August 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: A man who presented false identification documentation and who was in possession of false documents was sentenced today to over four months in federal prison.
By Press Release | Aug 12, 2022
Evidence from the Xinjiang Police Files implicated four high-ranking Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members in the extermination of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other Turkic minorities in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A U.S. Army soldier stationed at Fort Stewart awaits sentencing after admitting she led a “prolific fraud scheme" in which she and others illegally raked in millions of dollars from COVID-19 relief programs and federal student loan forgiveness.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA -- A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 15 years of imprisonment and 10 years of supervised release on his conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - On Wednesday, July 20, 2022, United States District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo sentenced JOSH TAPP, age 35, a resident of New Orleans, to 130 months in the Bureau of Prisons for conspiring to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute a quantity of heroin, in violation...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Jake Blankenheim, 48, of Cross Plains, Wisconsin was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 7 years in federal prison, followed by 12 years of supervised release, for distributing child pornography. He pleaded guilty to this charge on April 15, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - On Wednesday, July 27, 2022, a federal jury convicted a Meridian, Mississippi man on two counts of Attempted Witness Tampering.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: CINCINNATI - A Cincinnati man was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 100 months in prison and 84 months of supervised release for conspiring to sex traffic minors.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - The former mayor of Richardson, Texas, and a land developer whom she married after the federal investigation began, have been sentenced for their public corruption convictions in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: “Every single person deserves to live their life fully and authentically as who they are. But, if your authentic self is a bigot that wants to harm, humiliate and terrorize people, you are not welcome here. There is no hierarchy as to who is entitled to a full and authentic life. We all are. In Boston...
By State Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
Release: Under Secretary Jose W. Fernandez signed a cooperative arrangement (CA) with Secretary General Luis Almagro of the Organization of American States (OAS) on July 20, 2022, to increase transparency and accountability in government procurement of medical products. This agreement aims to curb corruption...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for his role in a conspiracy that converted large amounts of liquid methamphetamine into crystal methamphetamine at a rented house near George Melcher Elementary School in Kansas City, Mo.
By State Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome. It’s a pleasure to me and enlightening to hear from some leaders in civil society, from independent journalism here, gender equality advocates, to hear about their work, to hear about some of the challenges they face but also some of the opportunities, and as well how the work that the United States is doing and can do even more of to support their efforts.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Christopher Eugene Capers, 34, of Huntington, was sentenced today to seven years and eight months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession with intent to distribute cocaine base, also known as “crack.".
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: A Lorain man was sentenced to 105 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Pamela A. Barker on July 28, 2022, for his role in a drug trafficking organization responsible for distributing cocaine and heroin in the Lorain County area.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - A federal grand jury returned indictments on Tuesday against alleged large-scale dealers of fentanyl, cocaine and methamphetamine operating in Ohio County, according to United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston gang associate was sentenced today for cocaine and firearm offenses in connection with his role in a cocaine trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: A woman who robbed four stores and attempted to steal a woman’s purse at another was sentenced Friday in federal court, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: DANVILLE, Va. - Piedmont Infusion Services and its owner, Jacob Patterson, have agreed to pay $310,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act and the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act by submitting false bills to Medicare and Medicaid.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Defendant Imported Live Chinese Giant Salamanders and Other Reptiles.
