News from January 2022

By Interior Newswire | Jan 28, 2022
News Release: Grand Junction, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking public input on the draft.

By DOL Newswire | Jan 28, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Earlier this week, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chair, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), and Ranking Member, Senator Richard Burr (R-NC), released a discussion draft of the Prepare for and Respond to Existing Viruses, Emerging New Threats, and Pandemics...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2022
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Kathryn Mizelle has sentenced Giovanni Gort (32, Tampa) to 10 years in federal prison for two counts of armed robbery and one count of brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence. Gort was also ordered to pay $535 in restitution. He had pleaded guilty on Oct. 26, 2021.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2022
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Markitta Miller, of Reedsville, West Virginia, has admitted to wire fraud, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2022
News Release: Also Pleads Guilty to Illegal Firearms.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2022
News Release: ST. LOUIS - United States District Court Judge Rodney W. Sippel accepted a plea of guilty from Scott E. Reid on today’s date for possession of child pornography. A grand jury in the Eastern District of Missouri previously indicted Reid for the charge. Judge Sippel set sentencing for April 29, 2022.

By Interior Newswire | Jan 28, 2022
News Release: Beginning Sunday, Jan. 30, visitors to the NHS can expect these changes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2022
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Manison Largo, 42, of Church Rock, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, was sentenced in federal court today to six years and six months in prison for abusive sexual contact with a child. Largo pleaded guilty on Oct. 19, 2021.
By State Newswire | Jan 28, 2022
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, published an op-ed in Foreign Policy today on his philosophy regarding ambassador and State Department nominations.

By State Newswire | Jan 28, 2022
Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2022
News Release: Worked as contract bookkeeper and wrote unauthorized checks to herself and disguised them as legitimate payments to vendors.

By State Newswire | Jan 28, 2022
Release: United States Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL). Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): DRL: Supporting Efforts to Promote Freedom of Expression in Morocco. This is the announcement of funding opportunity number SFOP0008560. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number:...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2022
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Douglas Wright, Jr., 27, of Charlotte, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge David C. Keesler today and pleaded guilty to mail fraud, for stealing merchandise from Amazon worth over $273,000, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2022
News Release: U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced that Anthony Robinson, 25, of Katy, Texas, was sentenced on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022, by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey J. Helmick to 10 years in prison after Robinson pleaded guilty to a fentanyl drug trafficking conspiracy in the Toledo area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Bob Murray announced today that ANTWOINE WILLIAMSON, 31, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, was sentenced for being a felon in possession of a firearm by United States District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on Jan. 18, 2022. He received 30 months’ imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release and was ordered to pay a $100 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2022
News Release: Indictment Alleges Scheme to Fraudulently Charge Hundreds of Thousands of Mobile Phone Customers for Text-Messaging Services Without Their Knowledge or Consent.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2022
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - An Albert Lea man has been sentenced to life plus ten years in prison for engaging in sextortion and online sexual exploitation of minors. Acting U.S. Attorney Charles J. Kovats made the announcement after U.S. District Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright sentenced the defendant.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2022
News Release: Illegally Worked Using a Fictitious Social Security Number.

By State Newswire | Jan 28, 2022
Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2022
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: Five fishermen from Maine and one fisherman from New Hampshire, along with a corporation, were charged with conspiracy, mail fraud, and obstruction of justice in connection with a multi-year scheme to sell unreported Atlantic herring and falsify fishing records, U.S. Attorney Darcie N. McElwee announced.