News from February 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA -- A former resident of North Versailles, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2022
News Release: James Theodore Highhouse, 49, a former chaplain with the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) pleaded guilty today in federal court in the Northern District of California to five felonies for sexually abusing a female inmate and subsequently lying to federal agents during their investigation into his misconduct.

By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2022
There were 67 press releases published by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce in July 2021.

By John Suayan | Feb 25, 2022
A former member of a Guatemalan paramilitary group who was deported from the U.S. has been found guilty and sentenced to prison for crimes against humanity by a court in his native country.

By Press release submission | Feb 25, 2022
A Camden County, New Jersey, woman was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars of consumer electronics before reselling the stolen goods in connection with a delivery fraud scheme, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announce.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2022
OVW Fiscal Year 2022 Grants to Prevent and Respond to Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, Stalking, and Sex Trafficking Against Children and Youth Program Solicitation grant opened on Feb. 25.

By Press release submission | Feb 25, 2022
A Franklin, Tennessee man was sentenced today to three years in prison and a $35,000 fine for conspiring to commit honest services mail fraud by paying bribes to secure medical services contracts for the Norfolk City Jail.

By DOL Newswire | Feb 25, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor invites interested parties to submit nominations for individuals to serve on the federal Workforce Information Advisory Council and announces the procedures for those nominations.

By Press release submission | Feb 25, 2022
Leonard C Boyle, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ALEJANDRO CASTILLO, 42, a citizen of Belize last residing in Los Angeles, California, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking crystal methamphetamine to Connecticut.

By Press release submission | Feb 25, 2022
U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that BETTY ARRINGTON a/k/a “Betty Callie Arrington,” a/k/a “Betty Francis C Miller,” a/k/a “Betty Miller” (“ARRINGTON”), age 72, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, pled guilty on February 23, 2022 in federal court before U.S. District Judge Lance M. Africk to Theft of Government Funds, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 641.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Dennis Holmes announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance and Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2022
News Release: Seven Other Members of the Conspiracy Also Have Been Sentenced.

By Press release submission | Feb 25, 2022
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on February 24, 2022, Scott Eric Snyder, age 50, of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, was indicted on charges of production of child pornography.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2022
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2022
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal grand today indicted a convicted felon on drug and gun charges, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Mickey French.

By DOL Newswire | Feb 25, 2022
News Release: Date of action: Feb. 22, 2022

By Press release submission | Feb 25, 2022
An Essex County, New Jersey, man today admitted scheming with at least one U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employee and others to steal credit cards from the mail and use the stolen cards for hundreds of thousands of dollars of retail and online purchases, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Vikas Khanna announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - Six individuals from Maine and Massachusetts were arrested yesterday in connection with their roles in an alleged fentanyl trafficking organization with activity that spanned across Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine.

By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a two page rule on Feb. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2022
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA- Nearly one year after the House’s passage of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARP), Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) highlighted the Committee’s contributions to the package to better the lives of our nation’s seniors and people with disabilities.