News from January 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown announced that Karen Duhon, 67, of Berwick, Louisiana, has been sentenced by Chief United States District Judge S. Maurice Hicks, Jr. to 60 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, on mail fraud charges. Duhon was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $3,391,598.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. Attorney Erek L. Barron issued the following statement on the death of former U.S. Attorney Stephen H. Sachs.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy Ranking Member Michael Cloud (R-Texas), and Oversight Republicans sent a letter to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Tae Johnson requesting...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. -United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announced the unsealing of an indictment charging Jovante Raschod Thomas, a/k/a “Wood," a/k/a “Tae" (40, Pinellas Park), Troy Lydell Mctier Jr. (29, St. Petersburg), Adrian Fulton Ashby, (50, St. Petersburg) Marquesha Dequaila Leseon Isaac a/k/a “Auntie," ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: Court orders turnover of funds held in defendant’s inmate trust fund account.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: DES MOINES, Iowa - A Princeton, Iowa woman, Chelsea Lynn Gless, was sentenced on January 7, 2022, by United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger to 36 months in prison for Mail Fraud. Gless was ordered to serve three years of supervised release to follow her prison term and pay $100 to the Crime Victims’ Fund. Gless was also ordered to pay over $2.9 million in restitution to victims.
By Bob Martin | Jan 12, 2022
Officials from the U.S. and Japan recently met for the second Japan-U.S. Clean Energy Partnership (JUCEP) plenary meeting to establish their shared climate priorities for 2022 as well as review their achievements in 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: For Being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm.
By Art Benavidez | Jan 12, 2022
The U.S. Department of Labor and the National Labor Relations Board recently announced that they are aligning together in order to boost sharing, enforcement, training and outreach.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: WHITETHORN, Calif. - Volunteers are welcome to help the Bureau of Land Management and its partners, Saturday, Jan. 29, in a project to spruce up the main access road into the King Range National Conservation Area near Shelter Cove. Volunteers will work from mid-morning to 2 p.m. along the King Range Road near Paradise Ridge to clean up roadside debris and remove French broom plants, an invasive species.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
Small Community Air Service Development Program grant opened on Jan. 12.
By Art Benavidez | Jan 12, 2022
The U.S. Department of Labor is helping in the cleanup efforts of Northeast Arkansas after last month’s tornadoes by employing outreach and enforcement actions .
By State Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
Release: Today, the Department of State released a Limits in the Seas study on the PRC’s maritime claims in the South China Sea. The Department’s Limits in the Seas studies are a longstanding legal and technical series that examine national maritime claims and boundaries and assess their consistency with international...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: Six Medical Practices and a Physician-Owner to Pay Over $7.4 Million to Resolve Claims of Improper Billing of Medicare and the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program for Acupuncture Procedures.
By Andy Nghiem | Jan 12, 2022
A Catawba, South Carolina paper mill recently agreed on a proposed settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to address emissions of hydrogen sulfide causing issues for state and tribal communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - On Jan. 11, 2022, United States District Judge Greg Guidry sentenced JOHNNY WOODEN, age 21, to forty-eight (48) months in the Bureau of Prisons for possession of a firearm while under indictment, in violation of the Federal Gun Control Act, announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: Defendants agree to plead guilty to charging borrowers fees for fraudulent loan applications they submitted using fabricated information.
By Art Benavidez | Jan 12, 2022
A judge with the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has ordered a federal contractor to hand over documents as part of a federal compliance audit.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: For Distribution of Cocaine Base. HAMMOND- Odell Lucas, 44, of Schererville, Indiana was sentenced by United States District Court Judge James Moody after pleading guilty to one count of distribution of crack cocaine, announced United States Attorney Clifford D. Johnson. Lucas was sentenced to 151 months...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Plano, Texas, man, and a Niobrara, Nebraska, woman have been indicted by a federal grand jury for Second Degree Murder, Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury, and Assault with a Dangerous Weapon.
