News from February 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Robert Dygert, 35, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, 40 grams or more of fentanyl, was sentenced to serve 174 months years in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - This week, House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) led a letter signed by members of the House Committee on Natural Resources to Department of the Interior (DOI) Secretary Deb Haaland urging DOI to consider the impacts of current international crises...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: NEW BERN, N.C. - A Raleigh man was sentenced today to 132 months in prison for eleven counts of mail fraud, eleven counts of wire fraud, and two counts of aggravated identity theft. On March 10, 2021, Furman Alexander Ford, 52, was convicted of the charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that WILLIAM VAZQUEZ-BAEZ, a former member of the Puerto Rico Police Department (“PRPD"), was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman to 30 years in prison. VAZQUEZ-BAEZ previously pled guilty...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On Feb. 3, 2022, Michelle Clabough, 45, of Knoxville, was sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 44 months by the Honorable R. Leon Jordan, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Knoxville.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jesse Tillison, age 33, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury on drug trafficking and firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Salvadoran national residing in Lynn was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Boston for illegally reentering the United States after deportation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Matthew Moss, 36, of Bucks County, Pennsylvania was charged yesterday by a federal grand jury with methamphetamine trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - The United States Attorney’s Office announced today that $884,755 recovered from forfeited assets of Scott J. Wolas will be distributed to his victims. The United States Attorney’s Office expressly sought permission to have the forfeited assets directly applied to victim restitution, which was granted by the Department of Justice.
By State Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ahead of tomorrows opening ceremony to the Beijing Olympics, the China Task Force has launched a new webpage highlighting the many human rights abuses committed by the CCP. The page is filled with information detailing the CCP’s genocide, issues related to the safety of U.S. Olympians, and bipartisan efforts in Congress to confront their malign behavior.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Stephen J. Robeson, 58, of Oxford, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to one day in custody with credit for time served for being a felon in possession of a firearm. He was also ordered to spend two years on supervised release. Robeson pleaded guilty to this charge on Oct. 19, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Jan Sharp announced that David James Burke, 32, of Funk, Nebraska, was sentenced today to 92 months in prison by Senior United States District Judge Joseph F. Bataillon for possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine. There is no parole in the federal system. Upon his release from prison, he will serve four years of supervised release. He will also forfeit $6,480.00 in United States currency.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: Rammed Vehicles While Attempting to Flee from Law Enforcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: Department Strategy Supports National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking.
By State Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
Democracy Commission Small Grants Program grant opened on Feb. 3.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, stressed the need to hold China accountable for its rampant theft of U.S. taxpayer-funded research and intellectual property at a hearing to consider the nominations...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Chesapeake man pleaded guilty today in connection with the sale of a firearm to a prohibited person.
By State Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
DRL FY21 Strengthening Disability Inclusive Governance in Georgia grant opened on Feb. 3.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Agriculture Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture Chair Jim Costa delivered the following statement at today's hearing titled “Sustainability in the Livestock Sector: Environmental Gain and Economic Viability".
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: Join us as Obed Wild & Scenic River, Tennessee Citizens for Wilderness Planning, and Cumberland Trail State Park hosts the annual Cumberland Trail Volunteer Day on Saturday, February 12. Please meet at Rock Creek Campground, located off Catoosa Road in Morgan County, at 10:00 AM (ET).
