News from January 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico- Last December, a total of 25 students from the Epifanio Fernández Vanga Elementary School and the Mariano Feliú Balseiro Middle School in Bayamón graduated from the Project LEAD school program in a ceremony held in U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico. In August...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Christina Covey, age 34, formerly of Drums, Pennsylvania, was sentenced by United States District Judge Malachy E. Mannion, to 48 months’ imprisonment for methamphetamine trafficking, and 15 months’ imprisonment for committing pandemic unemployment fraud, five months of which is to run consecutive to the methamphetamine trafficking sentence.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: LAS VEGAS - The Pahrump Field Office concluded the FY2022 Nevada Wild Horse Range Wild Horse and Burro Gather near Tonopah, Nev., on Jan. 3, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A New York man was indicted yesterday in federal court in Boston on drug trafficking charges involving fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: PHILADELPHIA, PA - United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that SoNo International LLC (“SoNo") and Ark Capital Equipment LLC (“Ark") have agreed to jointly pay $904,000 to the federal government to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by supplying the Department...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: Rhode Island Man Charged in Manhattan for Trafficking ‘Ghost’ Guns.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Matthew G. Olsen, the Assistant Attorney General for National Security, and Michael J. Driscoll, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today...
By Bob Martin | Jan 6, 2022
Taylor Energy Company LLC will pay $43 million in fines and transfer $432 million to the U.S. for damage caused by an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that has been going since 2004.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A federal superseding indictment was unsealed today charging a Mexican National residing in Clackamas County, Oregon for his role in the 2019 kidnapping and murder of a Washington State man and other drug trafficking crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: Oberbroeckling also later possessed a sawed-off shotgun in vehicle at a hotel.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, John B. DeVito, Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (“ATF"), and Johnathan Carson, Special Agent-in-Charge of the U.S. Department of Commerce...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: Dover, Tennessee-Fort Donelson National Battlefield has closed for the remainder of today, Thursday, January 6, due to heavy snow fall and rapidly deteriorating road conditions throughout the region. Local authorities are asking those with non-essential travel to remain off of area roads.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: LAS VEGAS - A Las Vegas man who admitted to recklessly driving a vehicle with five times the legal limit of marijuana in his blood - resulting in the death of his passenger - was sentenced yesterday to two years in prison.
By State Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
Release: I look forward to welcoming Ambassador David Satterfield in the coming days as the U.S. Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa once Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman ends his appointment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A Nigerian man has been sentenced to federal prison for fraud violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A Salem, Oregon man was sentenced to federal prison today for illegally possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
By Bob Martin | Jan 6, 2022
The Department of Justice announced that it is awarding $110.7 million in an effort to reduce recidivism while also supporting those who were incarcerated returning to society.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: Set Fire to a Victim’s Home While the Victim and His Wife Were Inside Sleeping; Also Admitted Possessing with Intent to Distribute 732 Pills Marked as OxyContin But Containing a Fentanyl/Heroin Mixture.
By State Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: KANSAS CITY, MO - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Consulate General of Mexico in Kansas City have renewed an alliance - first signed in 2013 - to continue their collaborative relationship to promote workplace safety and health with the consulate and Mexican nationals working in Kansas and Missouri.
