News from August 2022
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C.--U.S. Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) issued the following statement on increased funding for the IRS included in the “Inflation Reduction Act," and his amendment to protect small businesses and middle-class taxpayers from increased audits.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
Fiscal Year 2022 Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) grant opened on Aug. 12.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA -- A resident of New Castle, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violating federal firearm laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that JAVONTE RICHARD, age 29, of New Orleans, was sentenced on July 21, 2022 to (1) year of probation for Theft of Mail by a Postal Service employee, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1709.
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 Brandon Norton, 32, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William Conley to 120 months in prison for distribution of 500 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing methamphetamine. Norton pleaded guilty to this charge on April 6, 2022.
By Press release submission | Aug 12, 2022
Man Sentenced to 21 Months in Prison for Stock Fraud Schemes
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Roberto Millan, 34, of Jamestown, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with production and attempted production of child pornography, and possession of child pornography. The charges carry a minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 30 years, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Alexander Ortiz and Jorge Perez Jr. Face Mandatory 20 Years in Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Nicholas Vassallo announced today that ANTHONY PIERCE UNOCIC, age 52, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, was sentenced for being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition on July 5, 2022, by United States District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson. Unocic was sentenced to 33 months’ imprisonment with three years of supervised release and was ordered to pay a $100 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a consent decree entered on July 15 by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia, Envigo RMS, a company that breeds and sells animals for research, has agreed to a permanent prohibition on engaging in any activity at its facility in Cumberland, Virginia, that requires...
By State Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: FOREIGN MINISTER BIRUTA: Secretary Blinken, members of the press, good morning. I would like to start by welcoming Secretary Blinken and his delegation to Kigali. And this visit is an opportunity to enhance bilateral cooperation between the U.S. and Rwanda and discuss matters of mutual interest.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Middlesex County, New Jersey, company has entered into a settlement agreement with the United States to resolve allegations that it made false statements to avoid paying customs duties, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.
By Press release submission | Aug 12, 2022
Previously convicted sex offender from Nevada sentenced to 14 years in prison after failing to update sex offender registration
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: BAY CITY - A Whittemore, Michigan, resident pleaded guilty today to two separate criminal cases related to the placement of explosive packages outside cellphone stores in Cheboygan, and Sault Ste Marie, Michigan, announced Eastern District of Michigan United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison and Western District of Michigan United States Attorney Mark Totten. Whittemore and Cheboygan are in the Eastern District and Sault Ste. Marie is in the Western District.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ABINGDON, Va.- A Georgia man, who was convicted in February 2022 for conspiring to traffic methamphetamine from Georgia into Southwest Virginia, was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison.
By State Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
Release: United States and Jamaican government officials and implementing partners International Organization for Migration, Warnath Group, and Winrock International, convened for the third bilateral dialogue of the United States-Jamaica Child Protection Compact (CPC) Partnership. Government officials shared accomplishments and discussed progress and challenges toward the activities and objectives of the CPC Partnership, a jointly developed plan signed by both governments in May 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA - A federal grand jury in Charleston returned a two-count indictment against Jeremy Allen Hughes, 39, of Goose Creek, for possessing a weapon after a misdemeanor domestic violence conviction and impersonating a federal law enforcement officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Defendant Confronted Officers, Disregarded Commands to Leave.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Ibrahim K. Boyd, age 32, of Albany, appeared today on an indictment alleging he engaged in fraudulent schemes to obtain government benefits and other funds intended to help out-of-work New Yorkers and struggling small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Steven Russell announced that Marco A. Vallecillo, 26, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced today in federal court in Omaha for possessing with intent to distribute marijuana and possessing a firearm during a drug trafficking crime. Chief United States District Judge Robert...
