News from December 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene E. Honeywell has sentenced Steven Brickner to 12 months and a day for filing a false U.S. Individual Income Tax Return for tax year 2017. The Court also imposed a $7,500 fine. Brickner had pleaded guilty on Feb. 11, 2022.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
News Release: States to have additional time to meet requirements WASHINGTON – Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced its intent to extend the REAL ID full enforcement date by 24 months, from May 3, 2023 to May 7, 2025. Under the new regulations published to execute this change, states will now ...
By State Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
Release: Special Envoy for Afghan Women, Girls, and Human Rights Rina Amiri will travel to Indonesia, Switzerland, and Turkey December 5-16. Special Envoy Amiri will participate in the International Conference for Afghan Women’s Education co-hosted by the Governments of Indonesia and Qatar to support Afghan women ...
By State Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
News Release: Members of the Quad and Troika (Norway, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States) welcome the agreement of an initial political framework. This is an essential first step toward establishing a civilian-led government and defining constitutional ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a jury in Hartford federal court has found JOHN TRASACCO, 50, of West Haven, guilty of conspiracy and fraud offenses. The trial before U.S. District Judge Omar A. Williams began on November 21 and the jury returned the guilty verdicts this afternoon.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Jorge Torres, 23, of Hartford, Connecticut, was sentenced to 27 months of imprisonment today in United States District Court by United States District Judge William K. Sessions III. Torres previously pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute fentanyl. Judge Sessions also ordered that Torres serve three years of supervised release after he serves his term of imprisonment.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
The US Homeland Security Department published a two page notice on Dec. 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Johnathon Earl Hamrick, 33, of Parkersburg, was sentenced today to seven years in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a nine page rule on Dec. 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Qaya Mikel Gordon, 20, of Lapwai, Idaho was sentenced to six years in federal prison for assault with a dangerous weapon, U.S. Attorney Josh Hurwit announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Courtney Michelle McComas, 34, of Huntington, pleaded guilty today to distribution of a quantity of fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
News Release: Chase Winkle, a former officer with the Muncie Police Department, in Muncie, Indiana, pleaded guilty today to eleven civil rights and obstruction charges. Specifically, Winkle pleaded guilty to five federal civil rights offenses for assaulting arrestees, and to six obstruction offenses for writing false reports to cover up the assaults.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
News Release: A federal grand jury in the Southern District of Mississippi returned an indictment that was unsealed yesterday charging two former Mississippi Department of Corrections officials with deprivation of rights under color of law.
By State Newswire Report | Dec 6, 2022
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said crimes against religious freedom still occur daily around the world and those nations may face sanctions.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
The US Environmental Protection Agency published a one page proposed rule on Dec. 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Francis Cardinell, 76, of Penfield, NY, was charged by criminal complaint with obstruction of justice and lying under oath. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.
By State Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
News Release: Hi there. Good afternoon. Great of you all to be here on a Friday afternoon, and I can even remember what it’s like to be a student on a Friday afternoon. So thank you all.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Dec. 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - YOLANI ASUCENA ENORADO-LEIVA, age 24, a resident of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, and LETICIA NICACIA DOS SANTOS, aka “La China,", age 18, who is a Brazillian national, pled guilty on Nov. 29, 2022, before U.S. District Judge Greg G. Guidry to participating in a conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
News Release: The Justice Department announced that a Mississippi man pleaded guilty in federal court to a hate crime for burning a cross in his front yard with the intent to intimidate a Black family.
