News from December 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the conviction yesterday in Manhattan federal court of ABEL MONTILLA for his participation in a cocaine trafficking scheme between 2018 and 2021. The jury convicted MONTILLA following a one-week trial before U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel. Sentencing of MONTILLA is scheduled for March 22, 2023.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Defendant was Armed With Knife and Joined in Chase of Officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today a proposed consent decree with 85 potentially responsible parties, requiring them to pay a total of $150 million to support the cleanup work and resolve their liability for discharging hazardous substances into the Lower Passaic River, which is part of the Diamond Alkali Superfund Site.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: A criminal complaint was unsealed yesterday in federal court in Brooklyn charging Mohammad David Hashimi, 35, of Potomac Falls, Virginia; Abdullah At Taqi, 23, of East Elmhurst, Queens, New York; Khalilullah Yousuf, 34, of Ontario, Canada; and Seema Rahman, 25, of Edison, New Jersey, with conspiring...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that KAMAL AL JAWHARI, age 28, a native of Lebanon, was found guilty as charged on Dec. 20, 2022, after a two-day jury trial before Chief United States District Judge Nannette Jolivette Brown.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Ungerer & Company, a flavor and fragrance business operating in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, has agreed to pay $230,000 and improve its compliance measures to resolve allegations it failed to make required notifications to the Drug Enforcement...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON D.C. - The Bureau of Land Management is extending the public comment period to Jan. 23, 2023 for the proposed rule to update regulations for the construction and operation of broadband infrastructure on public lands. A notice of the public comment period extension will be published in the Federal Register in early January 2023.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Three Rogersville, Mo., and Springfield, Mo., men have been sentenced in federal court for their roles in a scheme to transport tens of thousands of stolen catalytic converters across state lines as part of a multi-million-dollar business.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that last Thursday, Serhat Gumrukcu, 39, of Los Angeles, California and Berk Eratay, 36, of Las Vegas, Nevada, were charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with a murder-for-hire conspiracy and the January...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: LAS VEGAS - A U.S. citizen who previously resided in Ukraine was sentenced to 42 months in prison and five years of supervised release for conspiracy to commit bank fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: A Claremore man found to be downloading, distributing and viewing child pornography by law enforcement was sentenced in federal court, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior United States District Judge John Antoon II has sentenced David O. Isagba to 14 years in federal prison for mail fraud and conspiring to defraud the United States with respect to tax claims. This sentence was imposed consecutively to Isagba’s 2022 conviction for possession of child pornography from the Eastern District of New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Tara Lynn Crawford, of Wardensville, West Virginia, has admitted to a firearms charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today issued the following statement on bipartisan House passage of the Don Young Recognition Act (S. 5066 ; Murkowski) and expected bipartisan House passage of five other Natural Resources tribal bills under suspension of the rules. Having already passed the Senate, all six bills will soon advance to President Biden’s desk to be signed into law.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive Michael Pratt Captured in Spain.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: WAYCROSS, GA: An Atkinson County man has been sentenced to more than 10 years in federal prison after admitting to charges involving methamphetamine trafficking and illegal gun possession.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Justice Statistics is announcing the release of statistical tables on Jail Inmates in 2021 and Prisoners in 2021. Of note, the two incarcerated populations diverged in 2021, with the number of persons held in local jails increasing by 16% from 2020, while the number of persons in prison decreased 1%. Both populations decreased from 2019 to 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: St. Croix, VI - United States Attorney Delia L. Smith announced today that Shannon John, 37, of Tortola, British Virgin Islands, pleaded guilty before Magistrate Judge Emile A. Henderson, III, to Conspiracy to Possess with intent to Distribute Cocaine while onboard a Vessel Subject to the Jurisdiction of the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: The Ohio River Valley in 1803 was a place where people had been re-starting for over a century.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: A Pennsylvania man was sentenced today to five years in prison for conspiring to participate in the affairs of a racketeering enterprise, including making extortionate extensions of credit and conducting an illegal gambling business, all while serving as the underboss of the Philadelphia mafia family.
