News from February 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2022
News Release: St. Thomas, United States Virgin Islands - U.S. Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced that a St. Thomas man was arrested on Feb. 19, 2022, in St. Thomas, USVI on a criminal charge related to his alleged possession with intent to distribute cocaine.
By State Newswire | Feb 22, 2022
FY2022 U.S. Embassy Tokyo: Ambassador's Youth Council Japan Conference 2023 grant opened on Feb. 22.
By State Newswire | Feb 22, 2022
U.S. Embassy Tokyo: Promote Study abroad to the United States &- Graduate Schools grant opened on Feb. 22.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 22, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Feb. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2022
News Release: Following a two-week trial, three Georgia men were convicted today by a federal jury in the Southern District of Georgia for committing hate crimes and attempting to kidnap Ahmaud Arbery, a young Black man who was jogging on the public streets of a Brunswick neighborhood. Two of the men were also convicted of charges that they used firearms during that crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2022
News Release: NEW BERN, N.C. - Carlos Green, 34, of Craven County was sentenced today to 360 months in federal prison for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and distribution of 500 grams or more of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine, 280 grams or more of cocaine...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 22, 2022
Release: PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will be staffing a recruitment table at Plattsburgh International Airport for several days during February and March to provide information about what it is like to work as a TSA officer and to explain the hiring process. The table will be staffed in the first floor lobby near the mosaic.
By Andy Nghiem | Feb 22, 2022
The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Justice have partnered to launch an online tool for farmers and ranchers to report anticompetitive practices.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2022
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - Shannon Baker, 34, and Ryan Bell, 35, both from Florence, Ky., were sentenced Tuesday, to 150 months and 72 months, respectively, by U.S. District Judge David Bunning, after previously admitting to conspiring with others to distribute large amounts of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2022
News Release: Orlando, FL -United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Nikesh Ajay Patel (38, formerly from Orlando) has been arraigned on charges related to almost $20 million in fraud that he perpetrated while on federal pretrial release. Patel has been charged with one count of conspiracy to commit...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2022
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -The United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, W. Stephen Muldrow, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Joseph González, announced today the launch of a carjacking education and prevention campaign with the collaboration of the Puerto Rico Police Bureau’s Stolen Vehicles Section and the Puerto Rico Department of Justice.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 22, 2022
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Thursday, February 17th, U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm traveled to North Charleston and Orangeburg, South Carolina to highlight how the Department and the President’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law are supporting advancements in clean energy technology, strengthening ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2022
News Release: Ocala, FL - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Benjamin Townsel (23, Ocala) has pleaded guilty to three counts of possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and one count of possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number. He faces a maximum penalty of 35 years in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for May 20, 2022. Townsel had been indicted on July 21, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2022
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - A Jefferson Davis County felon was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Taylor B. McNeel to 77 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Kurt Thielhorn of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The sentence also included a fine of $2,000 and a term of three years of supervised release following his release from confinement.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 22, 2022
The US Environmental Protection Agency published a three page proposed rule on Feb. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Evans City, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of misappropriation by a fiduciary, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 22, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - As part of its role in combatting online financial fraud, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) today launches a five-day digital awareness campaign to remind the public about the dangers of online romance scams. The campaign is part of an...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2022
News Release: Defendant Took More Than $1.5M in County Funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2022
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell, III today sentenced Jorge Orencel, age 65, of Silver Spring, Maryland, to six months in federal prison, followed by one year of supervised release, for federal charges of attempting to smuggle goods out of the United States without the required export license. Judge Russell also ordered Orencel, who owned and operated Sumtech, an export business located in Fulton, Maryland, to pay a $5,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2022
News Release: Miami, Florida - Today, the former Executive Director of the Miss Florida Scholarship Program made her first appearance in federal court in Miami to face a seven-count indictment charging her with defrauding corporate and individual program donors, including the Children’s Miracle Network and the Everglades Foundation.
