News from January 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2022
News Release: Funds recovered from bank fraud, COVID relief fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2022
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Kray Strange, 19, of Carthage, NY, was arrested earlier today and charged by federal Criminal Complaint with manufacturing and distributing child pornography, and willfully causing and aiding and abetting the manufacture and distribution of child pornography.
By State Newswire | Jan 5, 2022
Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Well, good afternoon. Foreign Minister Baerbock, we had a terrific first meeting in Liverpool and it’s really a pleasure to welcome you to Washington, to the United States for the first time in your new role as foreign minister.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 5, 2022
News Release: House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) released the following statement on the retirement of Representative Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA-40), Chairwoman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 5, 2022
News Release: TAOS, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Taos Field Office will continue prescribed burn operations near San Pedro, N.M., throughout the month of January. The agency began burn operations in November with the intent to burn up to 200 acres near San Pedro in two units. The first unit is located...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2022
News Release: Fargo - United States Attorney Nick Chase announced that Tammy Longie, a/k/a Tammy Onebear of Tokio, ND, appeared before Chief Judge Peter D. Welte, U.S. District Court, Fargo, ND, and plead guilty to Second-Degree Murder within Indian Country; three counts of Child Abuse in Indian Country; and Child Neglect in Indian Country.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2022
News Release: A man who illegally possessed guns pled guilty on January 4, 2022, in federal court in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
By Emily Bevard | Jan 5, 2022
Criminals relegated to home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic will not return to prison, Merrick Garland and the U.S Department of Justice (DOJ) announced in a Reuter’s report last week.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 5, 2022
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) entered into a stipulation agreement with Rex Alan Starr & Nikki Starr, doing business as Stillwell Livestock Auction LLC (Stillwell) of Stillwell, Okla., on Nov. 22, 2021, for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act. Under the terms of the stipulation agreement, Stillwell waived their rights to a hearing and paid a civil penalty of $1,500.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 5, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Agriculture Committee Chairman David Scott and Livestock and Foreign Agriculture Subcommittee Chair Jim Costa issued the following statement on yesterday's announcements regarding the USMCA Dispute on Canadian Dairy Restrictions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2022
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Three Houston gang members have been ordered to federal prison following their convictions of robbery and assaulting at least one customer at a Love’s Travel Stop, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By State Newswire | Jan 5, 2022
Release: As 2022 begins, I am feeling the loss of two of the titans of U.S. science and conservation - E.O. Wilson and Tom Lovejoy - both of whom passed away in late December. Wilson was a Pulitzer Prize winning biologist whose study of ants and other insects led to some of the most profound and provocative scientific...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 5, 2022
News Release: TUPELO -A winter weather advisory has been issued for Natchez Trace Parkway from Tupelo, MS to Nashville, TN beginning Thursday. Mid-morning on Thursday, the Parkway will close from Collinwood, TN (Milepost 355) to Highway 64, (Milepost 370) and from Highway 46 /Pinewood Rd. (Milepost 429) to the northern terminus in Nashville.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that RITCHEL MOREHEAD, age 40, a resident of Covington, Louisiana, was convicted of wire fraud in connection with a fake investment scheme.
By State Newswire | Jan 5, 2022
Release: The Department of State is publicly designating former Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council (HJPC) President Milan Tegeltija and the President of the Movement for Democratic Action (PDA) and Parliamentary Assembly Representative Mirsad Kukic due to their involvement in...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two members of a violent street gang operating in Newark were arrested today on charges of possession with intent to distribute controlled substances and possession of firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking offenses, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By State Newswire | Jan 5, 2022
Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Well, good afternoon. Foreign Minister Baerbock, we had a terrific first meeting in Liverpool and it’s really a pleasure to welcome you to Washington, to the United States for the first time in your new role as foreign minister.
By Bob Martin | Jan 5, 2022
The Department of Justice has seemingly halted potential lawsuits against Apple and Google over antitrust laws due to governmental budget concerns.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2022
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RONNELL ROGERS, 28, of New Haven, was sentenced today via videoconference by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall to 51 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for narcotics distribution and firearm possession offenses, and for violating the conditions of his supervised release that followed a prior federal conviction.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 5, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement after convening a virtual committee briefing with Jen Easterly, the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and National Cyber Director Chris Inglis to discuss how the Administration is working to mitigate the threat posed by the recently discovered log4j vulnerability...
