News from June 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2022
News Release: Defendant Agrees to Pay 20k in Restitution and Fees, Destruction of Firearm and Five-Year Hunting Ban.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 21, 2022
News Release: STUDY: Top Job Creators Believe Recession is Unavoidable.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2022
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The former mayor of the Municipality of Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, José Luis Cruz Cruz, age 62, pleaded guilty today in Puerto Rico to engaging in a bribery conspiracy in which he received cash kickback payments in exchange for the award of municipal asphalt and paving contracts as well as municipal trash removal contracts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2022
News Release: Louisville, KY - Two former Louisville Metropolitan Police Department (LMPD) officers charged with conspiring to violate the civil rights of Louisville pedestrians through the arbitrary use of force pled guilty in federal court today. One of them also pled guilty to engaging in a cyberstalking conspiracy to hack computer applications for compromising photographs of female victims and then using those photographs to extort additional compromising photographs from the victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2022
News Release: ST. LOUIS - U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Clark on Tuesday sentenced a man from California to 30 years in prison for drug trafficking and money laundering.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 21, 2022
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - Hefty equipment passes over the Haul Road bridge in Oak Ridge. Its dark red metal stands out against the lush green East Tennessee hills.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 21, 2022
Wisconsin Wetland Restoration and Management Assistance grant opened on June 21.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 21, 2022
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Four of five crews of operations staff, including Commissioning Technician Gwendy Watkins, pictured here, at the Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant are now fully qualified in their “watch stations" in the Low-Activity Waste (LAW ) Facility control room in preparation for...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2022
News Release: CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA - Charles “Chuck" Willys Mincey, Jr., 65, of Flora, Mississippi, Karl Henry Zerbst, Jr., 62, of Mount Pleasant,, and Brian Daniel Herndon, 46, of Summerville, were sentenced in federal court after pleading guilty for their roles in various kickback and bribery schemes involving federal housing grant programs in the Charleston area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2022
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Gerard M. Karam was sworn in today as the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. The oath of office was administered by Chief Judge Matthew W. Brann of the United States District...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2022
News Release: Victim Shot Twice in Abdomen Following Argument Outside Nightclub.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 21, 2022
News Release: Democrats Vow to Make Biden-Flation Worse.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2022
News Release: Lawsuit Is the Justice Department’s First Case Challenging Algorithmic Discrimination Under the Fair Housing Act; Meta Agrees to Change Its Ad Delivery System.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 21, 2022
News Release: NFIB Survey: 40-Year High Inflation Pushes Job Creators’ Optimism to Lowest in Nearly 50 years.
By Savannah Howe | Jun 21, 2022
In light of ongoing tension between the United States and China, an international affairs academic has published a book that studies the countries' strained relationship at length, particularly what has the U.S. done right, what went wrong and what can be done about it?
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2022
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man who sold four AR-15 style rifles and marijuana to an undercover law enforcement officer was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 21, 2022
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By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that GREGORY JOSEPH HERNANDEZ, age 67, of New Orleans, Louisiana, was indicted on June 10, 2022 for one count of Conspiracy to Commit Bank Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371, six counts of Bank Fraud, in violation...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2022
News Release: HOUSTON - A 23-year-old man has entered a guilty plea for enticement of a minor online, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2022
News Release: PROVIDENCE. R. I. - Two men were detained in federal custody today, following their arraignment in U.S. District Court in an ongoing Rhode Island FBI Safe Streets Task investigation that has resulted in the seizure of more than one pound of methamphetamine to date, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.
