News from January 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - Two Everett men were sentenced today for their participation in a scheme to launder money that was fraudulently obtained from customer bank accounts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
News Release: BANGOR, Maine: A Wiscasset woman was sentenced today in federal court for making false statements during the purchase a firearm, U.S. Attorney Darcie N. McElwee announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Stephanie A. Gallagher today sentenced David William Jai Herder, age 41, of Ijamsville, Maryland, to seven years in federal prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, for distribution of child pornography. Judge Gallagher also ordered Herder to pay restitution totaling $45,000 to identified victims abused by others to produce the child pornography that Herder subsequently distributed, received, and/or possessed.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Subcommittee on the Environment Ranking Member Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) opened today’s joint forum with the Congressional Western Caucus on “Holding the Biden Administration Accountable for Skyrocketing Prices & Failing Energy Policies" by stating Congress must focus on the energy issues impacting Americans and emphasized the consequences of the Democrats’ unrealistic climate agenda.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Iglesias McEntyre, a/k/a “Max Pain," age 33, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Jan. 12, 2022, to five years’ imprisonment to be followed by three years of supervised release by United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion. He had previously pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that DEANDRE ROSE, age 29, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana was sentenced on Jan. 18, 2022 in the United States District Court. ROSE plead guilty to a one-count indictment charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
News Release: ALBUQERQUE, N.M. - Bennick Yazzie, 32, of Shiprock, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, pleaded guilty in federal court on Jan. 14 to sexual abuse of a minor. Yazzie will remain in custody pending sentencing, which has not been scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
News Release: CONCORD - Nicholas Jewett, 30, formerly of Woburn, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty on Tuesday in federal court to transportation of stolen property and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number, United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By State Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
Release: More information about Equatorial Guinea is available on the Equatorial Guinea page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for methamphetamine trafficking and illegally possessing a firearm.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
News Release: King Salmon, Alaska. - Katmai National Park seeks to continue the tradition of drawing on Alaska’s homegrown artistic skills to design the 2022 Brooks Camp Bear Etiquette Pin! In the same way that Alaska’s state flag design emerged from a contest held among Alaskan schoolchildren, the National Park Service...
By State Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement on North Korea’s recent missile tests:
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, held a hearing examining the results of an audit by the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (DOD OIG), which found that a defense contractor, TransDigm Group Inc., has received nearly...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Cambridge man was arrested and charged today in connection with purchasing child pornography with digital currency from the dark web.
By State Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
Release: PRESIDENT ZELENSKYY: (Via translator) I would like to first thank you and your colleagues for your visit. Your visit is very important to us, your visit personally. This underscores once again the strong support for Ukraine’s independence and sovereignty from the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Robert Jones, 52, of Hurricane, pleaded guilty today to two counts of aggravated identity theft, in relation to defrauding a local bank and two elderly residents in the Southern District of West Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that BONNIE JEAN LAWLESS DIAZ (“DIAZ") has been sentenced on Jan. 18, 2022 to 36 months of probation after pleading guilty in federal court relating to her role in a health care fraud conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
News Release: CONCORD - Charles Paul Jansen, 36, of Pittsfield, was sentenced on Tuesday to 97 months in federal prison for distribution of child pornography, United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
News Release: LACEY, WA. - FEMA, in partnership with the Washington State Military Department’s Emergency Management Division, will open a Disaster Recovery Center Wednesday, Jan. 19, in Skagit County to help survivors of the November flooding and mudslides.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today launched a probe into Hunter Biden’s involvement in the sale of a cobalt mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo from an American company to a Chinese company in 2016. Cobalt is one of the most important components of electric car batteries, solar panels and other forms of renewable energy, and the United States is losing a contest to secure the element against communist China.
