News published on Federal Newswire in March 2022

News from March 2022


The FBI is Seeking Information Concerning a Bank Robbery in Fort Lauderdale

The FBI is seeking information concerning a bank robbery that took place on March 23, 2022, at approximately 9:07 a.m.


Loves Park Investment Advisor Sentenced to More Than Four Years in Prison for Financial Fraud

 A Loves Park, Ill., investment advisor has been sentenced to four years and four months in federal prison for financial fraud.NASEEM SALAMAH, 41, fraudulently obtained a total of more than $968,000 from the accounts of three customers.


Climber fatality in the Sheep Pass Area

News Release: A fall resulted in a fatality of a climber in the Sheep Pass Area of Joshua Tree National Park on Saturday, March 26, 2022. Joshua Tree Search and Rescue and Riverside County deputies responded to the incident. The climber was identified as Tina Lynn Fiori, 51 year old resident of Riverside County.


Release: MR GREENE: Of course, it is terrific to see everybody face to face. We haven’t had that many gatherings like this, so I want to welcome everyone here who is here in person, both from Embassy Rabat and from Consulate General Casablanca, including Consul General Lawrence Randolph, who is somewhere in the...


Canadian National Found Guilty of Leading Drug Trafficking Organization that Purchased Hundreds of Pounds of Narcotics

A Canadian national was found guilty by a jury today of federal criminal charges for leading a drug-trafficking organization that intended to export hundreds of pounds of cocaine and heroin from Southern California into Canada and imported MDMA (Ecstasy) into the United States using big-rig trucks and fully encrypted telephones to achieve their aims.


Illegal possession of firearm sends Hamilton man to prison for more than two years

A Hamilton man was sentenced today to 27 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release after he admitted to illegally possessing a firearm after being found passed out in the driver’s seat of a running vehicle that was stopped at an intersection in Missoula, U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said.


Methamphetamine Trafficker Is Sentenced To More Than Nine Years

News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Today, U.S. District Judge Frank D. Whitney sentenced Alberto Manuel Lara-Zuniga, 46, of Mexico, to 108 months in prison and five years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.


News Release: MODERATOR: Good afternoon, Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen. We are starting now the last chapter of the Negev Summit, which are the press statements by all six foreign ministers. First to address us is our host, Foreign Minister of the State of Israel His Excellency Yair Lapid.


Missouri Man Receives 35-year Federal Sentence for Attempted Sexual Exploitation of a Minor

Jason Dominik Tyler Rodriquez, 38, of East Prairie, Missouri, was sentenced to a total of 420 months in prison on Wednesday, March 23, 2022, after a federal jury found him guilty in November of 2021 of trying to have sex with an 8-year-old girl and transporting child pornography.


News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky. - The former County Attorney for Lawrence County, Michael T. Hogan, and his wife and legal secretary, Joy M. Hogan, 41, pleaded guilty on Tuesday, before U.S. District Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove, to wire fraud. Michael Hogan pleaded guilty also to federal program theft.


National Seashore Begins Enhanced Enforcement of Shorebird Protections

News Release: Gulf Islands National Seashore has begun increasing enforcement actions to protect nesting shorebirds in Florida and on islands in Mississippi.


News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement on President Biden’s proposed budget.


Five Members of Violent Criminal Enterprise Indicted in Cocaine Trafficking Conspiracy

Five members of a violent criminal enterprise were indicted by a federal grand jury today in connection with a drug trafficking conspiracy that distributed large amounts of cocaine and cocaine base (crack cocaine) throughout Western Massachusetts.


Counselor Chollet’s Travel to the Philippines, Vietnam, and Japan

News Release: Counselor Derek Chollet will travel to the Philippines, Vietnam, and Japan from March 28 to April 2. Counselor Chollet will reaffirm the U.S. commitment to our Indo-Pacific allies and partners, and engage with key stakeholders on bilateral and regional issues, including efforts to seek a peaceful return to democracy in Burma. He will also discuss the impact of Russia’s premeditated, unprovoked, and unjustified invasion of Ukraine.


Congressman Jeff Fortenberry Found Guilty of Concealing Facts and Lying to Investigators Probing Illegal Campaign Contributions

U.S. Representative Jeff Fortenberry, who represents Nebraska’s 1st Congressional District, was found guilty by a federal jury this evening of concealing information and making false statements to federal authorities who were investigating illegal contributions made by a foreign national to the congressman’s 2016 re-election campaign.


News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ERIC SPENCER, was convicted yesterday for his participation in a robbery of a luxury retail store in New York, New York on Feb. 2, 2021. SPENCER was convicted after a one-week jury trial before U.S. District Judge Gregory H. Woods.


News Release: For Wire Fraud and Aggravated Identity Theft.


Five Men Plead Guilty to Firearm Charges Stemming from Murder and Arson Scheme

News Release: Leonard C Boyle, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that five men have pleaded guilty in Bridgeport federal court to firearm charges stemming from a plan to murder an individual and set fire to the Bridgeport business where he worked.


News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) released its proposed rule that would re-instate provisions of the controversial Obama-era recordkeeping rule...


Fentanyl Pill Dealer Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison

News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Jonathon Cortez, 24, of Fresno, was sentenced today to five years in prison for conspiring to distribute hundreds of fentanyl pills, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.