News from March 2022
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 2, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON- The U.S. Department of Transportation and its Federal Aviation Administration are issuing orders blocking Russian aircraft and airlines from entering and using all domestic U.S. airspace.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2022
News Release: For Carjacking. SOUTH BEND - Miles Wilbourn, 29 years old, of South Bend, Indiana, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Damon R. Leichty after pleading guilty to three counts of carjacking, announced United States Attorney Clifford D. Johnson. Wilbourn was sentenced to 222 months in prison...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 2, 2022
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management Elko District, Wells Field Office, and City of West Wendover (City) on Feb. 24, 2022, completed a direct land sale of 84.06 acres of land, supporting development of public and private interests, and opportunities for community expansion.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2022
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Seven members of a drug trafficking conspiracy were recently sentenced by Chief United States District Judge S. Maurice Hicks, Jr., with the lead defendant having been sentenced today, announced United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown.
By T.H. Lawrence | Mar 2, 2022
Liu Pengyu, a spokesman for the Chinese ambassador to the United States, has condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine with a caveat.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 2, 2022
The US Homeland Security Department published a one page rule on March 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State Newswire | Mar 2, 2022
Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 2, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a three page rule on March 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 2, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on March 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2022
News Release: Tampa, Florida -United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Jimmy Wayne Hammonds, also known as “the Monkey Whisperer" (57, Parrish), today pleaded guilty to having violated the Endangered Species Act and Lacy Act in connection with a conspiracy to sell a protected primate to a celebrity client in California. Hammonds faces a maximum penalty of eight years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2022
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Samson A. Oguntuyi, age 29, of Atlanta, Georgia, yesterday to 54 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiracy to commit bank fraud and mail fraud, bank fraud, and aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2022
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Los Angeles man was sentenced today to 14 years in prison for leading a conspiracy involving the distribution of wholesale quantities of synthetic cannabinoids-commonly known as “spice" or “K2"-and laundering millions of dollars in the proceeds of the sale of that spice.
By State Newswire | Mar 2, 2022
News Release: The U.S. Department of State has suspended operations at our Embassy in Minsk, Belarus and authorized the voluntary departure (“authorized departure”) of non-emergency employees and family members at our Embassy in Moscow, Russia. We took these steps due to security and safety issues stemming from the ...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 2, 2022
News Release: Exactly one month ago, for the first time in more than a decade, this Committee held a hearing examining America’s mental health crisis.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that FERNANDO RA was sentenced to 18 years in prison today in connection with robbery, firearms, and narcotics offenses. RA previously pleaded guilty on June 2, 2021, before United States District Judge P. Kevin Castel.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2022
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - James Edward Bennett III, 30, of Charleston, pleaded guilty today to a federal gun crime.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 2, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Senate has passed a landmark legislative package authored by U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Rob Portman (R-OH), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, to significantly enhance our nation’s ability to combat ongoing cybersecurity...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal grand jury in Chicago today indicted former Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives MICHAEL J. MADIGAN on racketeering and bribery charges for allegedly using his official position to corruptly solicit and receive personal financial rewards for himself and his associates.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2022
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Last week, in United States District Court in Louisville, Kentucky, Steve DeMoss and Ron Ivy, two former mine managers, were sentenced for repeatedly violating the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s (MSHA) regulations requiring accurate respirable coal-dust-sampling in underground...
By State Newswire | Mar 2, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C.- House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul delivered the following opening statement at a full committee hearing on AUMF amid Russia’s renewed full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
