News from December 2022
By Interior Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
News Release: Buckeye, Ariz. - During a visit to the Sonoran Solar Energy Project today – a project on public lands expected to power 91,000 homes – Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management Laura Daniel-Davis announced new efforts to support solar energy development on public lands across the West and help meet the Biden-Harris administration’s ambitious renewable energy and conservation goals.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
The US Interior Department 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: ATLANTA - Former Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency counselor Karen C. Lyke (formerly known as Karen C. Gregory) has been sentenced to five years in prison for forging educational records and creating fake students with non-existent disabilities and illnesses in an elaborate, multi-year scheme to steal more than $1.3 million.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
The US Agriculture Department published a one page notice on Dec. 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Press release submission | Dec 6, 2022
Ranjith Keerikkattil, 34, of Catonsville, Maryland, who left the United States after he was found guilty of stalking a junior co-worker, and was finally re-arrested four years later, has been sentenced to an 11-month prison term.
By Press release submission | Dec 6, 2022
U.S. Attorney David C. Weiss announced that Michael Younger, 45, a New Castle County man, was sentenced yesterday to 94 months in prison for distributing fentanyl.
By Press release submission | Dec 6, 2022
A Union County, New Jersey, man admitted participating in a conspiracy to commit multiple armed robberies from August 2018 to February 2019, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.
By Press release submission | Dec 6, 2022
Frankie David Vargas II of Miami has been sentenced to 27 years in prison and three years of supervised release by U.S. District Judge Darrin P. Gayles for a two-day crime spree that involved carjacking, robbery, and a firearm.
By Press release submission | Dec 6, 2022
A San Antonio man was sentenced Wednesday to 44 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for wire fraud.
By Press release submission | Dec 6, 2022
United States Attorney Delia L. Smith announced today that Ramon Torres-Pichardo, 28, of the Dominican Republic, was sentence to eight months of imprisonment by Judge Wilma A. Lewis on his conviction on Material False Statement. His sentence will be followed by two years of supervised release and a special assessment of $100 on the charge of Material False Statement.
By Press release submission | Dec 6, 2022
A Portland woman was sentenced to federal prison today for violating the terms of her post-prison supervised release by submitting two fraudulent applications for loans intended to help small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Press release submission | Dec 6, 2022
Van Lee Harrell, 35, of Huntington, pleaded guilty today to possession with intent to distribute cocaine base, also known as “crack.”
By Press release submission | Dec 6, 2022
United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown announced that the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Louisiana and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) are seeking to identify potential victims of an online child exploitation scheme which originated in Northeast Louisiana in 2021.
By Press release submission | Dec 6, 2022
A Minneapolis man has been sentenced to 120 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for making threats against Hennepin County employees and illegally possessing a firearm as a felon, announced United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger.
By Press release submission | Dec 6, 2022
Some defendants illegally possessed firearms while distributing heroin, methamphetamine, and fentanyl pills
By Press release submission | Dec 6, 2022
Charges were unsealed today against eight individuals for conspiring to defraud the Georgia Department of Labor of tens of millions of dollars in federal funds intended for unemployment benefits.
By Press release submission | Dec 6, 2022
Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that OLAJUWON HARRINGTON, also known as “OJ Harrington,” 30, of Waterbury, was arrested today on a federal criminal complaint charging him with fraud and identity theft offenses related to his alleged theft of pandemic unemployment benefits.
By Press release submission | Dec 6, 2022
United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that RENE CLEMENT (“CLEMENT”), age 75, of Houma, Louisiana, was charged with failing to account for and pay federal income taxes and Federal Insurance Contributions Act (“FICA”) taxes, in violation of Title 26, United States Code, Section 7202.
By Press release submission | Dec 6, 2022
A Douglas County couple known for distributing drugs was sentenced to federal prison today after they were linked to the overdose death of man to whom they had sold drugs to for more than a year.
By Press release submission | Dec 6, 2022
A Nashville, Tenn., man, Marlon Jermaine Johnson, 39, was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years in federal prison, by U.S. District Judge Claria Horn Boom, for possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine, possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, and possession of a firearm as a convicted felon.
