News from August 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2022
News Release: From Aug. 23 to 25, a delegation of U.S. Attorneys, their criminal division chiefs, and Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force chiefs (OCDETF) from eight border districts traveled to Mexico City to participate in a series of briefings and meetings on security cooperation matters, including efforts ...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 29, 2022
News Release: COLORADO SPRINGS, CO - A worker performing maintenance inside a cement mixer at a Colorado Springs concrete manufacturing company narrowly escaped fatal injuries when a co-worker turned the machine on. A U.S. Department of Labor investigation determined the company’s failure to comply with federal workplace safety standards nearly cost the worker their life.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2022
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Johnna Dee Courtney, of Buckhannon, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 120 months of incarceration for methamphetamine and counterfeit charges, U.S. Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2022
News Release: ALPINE - A Mexican national was sentenced last week to 108 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2022
News Release: ROME, Ga. - Stacy Keith Wisener, a repeat sex offender, has been sentenced to three decades in federal prison for sexually abusing an 11-year-old girl and producing child pornography depicting the abuse. Wisener also received a concurrent term of imprisonment for possessing mail he had stolen from the U.S. Postal Service processing facility where he worked.
By State Newswire | Aug 29, 2022
The US State Department published a two page notice on Aug. 29, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2022
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Martin Perez-Amaro, age 33, a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced to 8 months’ imprisonment by United States District Judge Robert D. Mariani for illegally reentering the United States after being previously deported.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 29, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on Aug. 29, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2022
News Release: A federal grand jury in Miami returned an indictment today charging a Venezuelan national for laundering the proceeds of substantially inflated procurement contracts obtained by making bribe payments to senior officials at Petropiar, a joint venture between Venezuela’s state-owned and state-controlled energy company and an American oil company.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 29, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Aug. 29, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State Newswire | Aug 29, 2022
The US State Department published a one page notice on Aug. 29, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 29, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a four page notice on Aug. 29, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former Redondo Beach resident pleaded guilty today to a federal criminal charge for targeting girls on the internet and enticing them to engage in masochistic abuse for his sexual gratification.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A San Fernando Valley man was sentenced today to 240 months in federal prison for distributing the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl that resulted in the overdose deaths of two people in July 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2022
News Release: The United States, through the Department of Justice and FBI, forfeited approximately $23 million traceable to the corruption and money laundering of former Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha and his co-conspirators. This money will be returned to the Nigerian people through an agreement between the Governments ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2022
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - James Richard Cutright, of Philippi, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 36 months of incarceration for a firearms charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2022
News Release: CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.- A Staunton, Virginia man, who attempted to run over law enforcement officers serving arrest warrants, was sentenced last week to 57 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2022
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Jermaine Lee Walker, 45, of Quincy, Florida, was sentenced to 262 months in federal prison after he pled guilty to possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. The prison term will be followed by 5 years of supervised release. Jason R. Coody, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced the sentence.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 29, 2022
News Release: Bayfield, WI - Join us in congratulating David J. Cooper, Apostle Islands National Lakeshore Archeologist and Cultural Resource Manager, in being awarded the John L. Cotter Award for Excellence in NPS Archeology for Professional Achievement.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that FABIO VARGAS-GONZALEZ, 47, of Wethersfield, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 48 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for a fentanyl trafficking offense.
