News from December 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, and Raul Bujanda, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Albuquerque Field Office, announced that Juan Rodriguez was charged by criminal complaint with sex trafficking of children. Rodriguez, 38, of Roswell, New Mexico, will remain in custody pending trial, which has not been scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man has been sentenced to nearly eight years in federal prison for using a machine gun to rob a law enforcement officer during an undercover firearms transaction.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
Decarbonization of Water Resource Recovery Facilities (D-WRRF) grant opened on Dec. 16.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor and the IRS today renewed a memorandum of understanding and added a streamlined process for joint referrals and closer coordination to stop businesses from misclassifying workers and denying them their full wages, benefits and protections under the law.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that TATIANA BENJAMIN and HEAVEN WEST pled guilty to defrauding New York City’s COVID-19 Hotel Room Isolation Program. BENJAMIN pled guilty yesterday to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, while WEST pled guilty...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: CONCORD - Jabreel A. Amir, 41, of Waterbury, Connecticut, pleaded guilty in federal court to drug trafficking charges, United States Attorney Jane E. Young announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Kishaun Brooks, 21, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to four years in federal prison for possessing a handgun as a felon. This prison term will be followed by three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that a federal jury has found Patrick Dines (74, St. Petersburg) guilty of endeavoring to obstruct a proceeding pending before the United States Coast Guard (USCG). Dines faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison. His sentencing hearing has not yet been set. Dines had been indicted on March 1, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - An Ava, Mo., man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for producing child pornography after photos of the child victim’s sexual assault were discovered in his former residence while it was being torn down.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A former employee of a Mount Holly, New Jersey, medical practice was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for selling fraudulent prescriptions for controlled substances, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By State Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman met with Foreign Minister of Angola Tete Antonio yesterday in Washington, D.C. on the margins of the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit. Deputy Secretary Sherman reiterated the importance the United States places ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Justin Paul Thompson, of Fairmont, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 24 months of incarceration for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS- A Mounds View man has been sentenced to 24 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release and ordered to pay $6,058,980 in restitution for failing to pay payroll taxes for several years, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Alan Clark Tolliver, of Hagerstown, Maryland, was sentenced today to 74 months of incarceration for a drug charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
F24AS00004 Fisheries Resource Monitoring Program (2024-2027) grant opened on Dec. 16.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: Yesterday, Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo met with Macky Sall, President of the Republic of Senegal and Chairperson of the African Union. During their meeting, the Secretary and President discussed strengthening commercial ties including through ongoing collaboration on the Partnership for Global ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: Seattle - The owner of a wholesale fish processor, Native American Fisheries, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to three years of probation for violating the Lacey Act by taking more than 7,000 pounds of illegally caught Columbia River salmon and selling it commercially. Scott Kinley...
By State Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
Academy of Women Entrepreneurs Program in Consular District Hyderabad grant opened on Dec. 16.
By State Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
Advancing Diversity and Inclusion grant opened on Dec. 16.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: DALLAS, TEXAS (Dec. 15, 2022) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that the Louisiana based company, Limitless Vistas Inc (LVI) will receive $500,000 in grants funded through President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for environmental job training programs. The grants through ...
