News from February 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: OAKLAND - A federal grand jury in Oakland, Calif., returned an indictment today charging a California businessman with failing to pay over employment taxes to the IRS.
By State Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul released the following statement on President Biden’s confirmation that ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi was confirmed dead after a United States special operations mission in Northwest Syria.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Dwayne Smallwood was sentenced to 28 months in prison for conspiring to distribute, and distributing, fentanyl and heroin in Butler, Pennsylvania, between 2017 and 2020, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that James A. Pane, 50, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of threatening by mail to injure or intimidate and unlawfully damage and destroy property by means of an explosive, was sentenced to serve 24 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Ron Johnson (R-WI), Ranking Member of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, introduced legislation to prohibit the Administrator of the Transportation...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Dennis Dean Garcia, Jr., 34, of Grants, New Mexico, was arraigned in federal court on Feb. 2 on one count each of possession with intent to distribute 50 grams and more of methamphetamine and attempt to provide contraband in prison. Garcia was indicted by a federal grand jury on January 25.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) released a Request for Information (RFI) encouraging chemical and biological defense companies to bring their innovative technologies for test and evaluation in the Chemical and Biological Advanced Capability Testbed (CBT) in the New York City subway system. The deadline for submitting applications to the RFI is 5:00 p.m. EST on Feb. 24, 2022.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: Lewis and Clark National Historical Park invites everyone to participate in the 25th annual Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) February 18 through 21. In this citizen science opportunity, anyone in the world can count birds at any location on one or more days of the count and enter their sightings at birdcount.org.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a White River, South Dakota, man convicted of Third Degree Burglary was sentenced on Feb. 2, 2022, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By State Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement regarding the administration’s counterterrorism operation in Syria where an ISIS leader was eliminated...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Tyreese Marsh, of Detroit, Michigan, was sentenced today to 120 months of incarceration for his role in a methamphetamine distribution operation in Marion County, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Monroeville, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Today, Ways and Means Committee Racial Equity Initiative Co-Chairs, Reps. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), Steven Horsford (D-NV), and Terri Sewell (D-AL), released the following statement applauding the Administration for Children and Families’ (ACF) National Call to Action on racial equity...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: Department Strategy Supports National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking.
By State Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
Release: The United States is designating World Human Care, an Indonesia-based organization that has provided financial support to Majelis Mujahidin Indonesia (MMI), an Indonesia-based terrorist group. World Human Care provides financial support for MMI activities in Syria under the pretense of providing humanitarian...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Virginia Hernandez Covington today sentenced Loyd Tomlinson II (58, Ellenton) to six years and six months in federal prison for defrauding a federally insured financial institution out of more than $20 million. As part of his sentence, the Court also entered a money judgment in the amount of $240,000, the proceeds of the wire fraud. Tomlinson had pleaded guilty on Sept. 28, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO - A suburban Chicago man has been charged in federal court with fraudulently obtaining unemployment benefits in the names of hundreds of individuals whose information was used without their knowledge.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: Big South Fork National River & Recreation Area is once again partnering with Knoxville Track Club to hold the annual Oscar Blevins Trail Run event during the annual Spring Planting & Music Festival on Saturday, April 30, 2022.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: Cincinnati - Today, the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) awarded North Wind Portage, Inc. (NWP), of Idaho Falls, Idaho, the Moab Remedial Action Contract (Moab RAC) for completion of EM’s environmental remediation in Moab, Utah. DOE determined that NWP’s proposal provides the best value to the Government.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Erie, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty and was sentenced in federal court to 120 months in jail on his conviction of violating federal drug laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
