News from February 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2022
News Release: California Man Sentenced to Life in Prison for Creating Child Sexual Abuse Material of A Number of Young Children and Engaging in a Child Exploitation Enterprise.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2022
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A Pawtucket woman who, while working as office secretary to a local auto body business, devised a scheme to fraudulently obtain the proceeds of nearly 200 checks provided to customers by their insurance companies to pay for vehicle repairs, has been sentenced to two years in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 18, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Feb. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2022
News Release: A federal court in the Northern District of Illinois has permanently enjoined a Chicago, Illinois, tax return preparer from preparing returns for others and from owning, operating or franchising any tax return preparation business in the future.
By State Newswire | Feb 18, 2022
Projects to Understand, Prevent, and Address Rising Gender-Based Violence in Eastern Europe and the Caucuses and the Nexus with Violent Extremism grant opened on Feb. 18.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 18, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a three page notice on Feb. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2022
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Brihany Baker, 25, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced to one year and one day in prison, and two years of supervised release United States District Court Chief Judge Juan R. Sánchez for illegally purchasing three semi-automatic firearms for her romantic partner.
By Press release submission | Feb 18, 2022
Snow, ice and bitter cold conditions did not deter crews performing important infrastructure upgrades on the Hanford Site this winter.
By Press release submission | Feb 18, 2022
EM and its new Idaho Cleanup Project contractor are tackling a full slate of work at DOE’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site this year, including treating and shipping waste out of state, starting radiological operations at the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit (IWTU) and planning for significant construction and demolition projects.
By Press release submission | Feb 18, 2022
EM crews at Oak Ridge recently devised innovative approaches to enable deactivation and demolition of the final portion of the former Radioisotope Development Laboratory.
By Press release submission | Feb 18, 2022
EM is set to deactivate and demolish the prototype for a reactor plant used for the first nuclear-powered submarine, a major step toward advancing environmental cleanup at the DOE's Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site.
By Press release submission | Feb 18, 2022
EM and its cleanup contractor at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) have redesigned an office building to support cleanup activities as they prepare to begin the teardown of the former Main Plant Process Building, an EM 2022 priority.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 18, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Feb. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 18, 2022
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Feb. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 18, 2022
News Release: Salt Flat, Texas -- Guadalupe Mountains National Park drew a record 243,000 recreational visits during 2021. These numbers reflect a 28% increase since the last pre-pandemic year of 2019 (189,000), and an 8% increase over 2017’s post-NPS centennial surge year (225,000). In a similar twelve month period, over one million vehicles drove through the park on U.S. Highway 62/180.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2022
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - A Guatemalan national pleaded guilty to the federal felony offense of unlawful return of an alien after deportation or removal, announced U.S. Attorney Darren LaMarca, Chief Patrol Agent Jason E. Schneider of the U.S. Border Patrol’s New Orleans Sector, and Special Agent in Charge David Denton of Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2022
News Release: EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - Demarko Hines, 50, of Cahokia Heights, Illinois, was sentenced today to five years in federal prison for distributing crystal methamphetamine. Hines will also serve a four-year term of supervised release following his release from federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2022
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - On Feb. 17, 2022, a federal Grand Jury returned a seven-count Bill of Indictment against Alejo Ocasio Venerio, 31, of Puerto Rico, and Franklyn Grullon Jorge, 44, a citizen of the Dominican Republic, charging them both with transporting illegal aliens on their vessel, United States Attorney Gretchen Shappert announced.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 18, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Feb. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2022
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel sentenced Jovar Demetrius Jefferson, age 30, of Lanham, Maryland to six years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance.
