News from May 2022
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2022
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On Monday, Adolfo Aburto-Gonzalez, 24, of Olympia, Washington, pleaded guilty to Transportation of Child Pornography. Sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 24, 2022 before United States District Judge Rosemary Márquez.
By State Newswire | May 18, 2022
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2022
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Miguel Angel Gonzalez-Perez, a/k/a Fernando Contreras Gonzalez, 54, of Mexico, was sentenced today to 97 months in prison and three years of supervised release for trafficking carfentanil, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2022
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Kevin Ray Morgan, of Wheeling, West Virginia, has admitted to selling heroin and fentanyl, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2022
News Release: DETROIT - Two defendants were sentenced yesterday for their role in an unemployment insurance benefit fraud scheme, announced United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison.
By Homeland Newswire | May 18, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, announced that their bipartisan State and Local Government Cybersecurity Act has passed the House and now heads to the president’s desk to...
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2022
News Release: PLANO, Texas - Nineteen individuals have been named in a federal indictment charging them with violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By David Beasley | May 18, 2022
Homeland Security Investigations officially opened its new office in Chattanooga, Tenn., May 5.
By Bob Pepalis | May 18, 2022
The Hawaiian monk seal population surpassed 1,500 for the first time in more than two decades.
By Sam Jackson | May 18, 2022
A professor at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale has been convicted of concealing a foreign bank account from the Internal Revenue Service.
By Timothy Stuckey | May 18, 2022
The Federal Railroad Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation recently established the Corridor Identification and Development Program, which aims to overhaul America's passenger rail line system.
By Bob Pepalis | May 18, 2022
A federal judge upheld the U.S. Department of Labor’s $1.9 million assessment against Paragon Contractors Corp. and its owner, Brian Jessop, based on their long history of child labor violations.
By USDA Newswire | May 18, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, issued statements on the White House nomination of Alexis Taylor for USDA Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs and Stacy Dean for USDA Under Secretary for Food Nutrition and Consumer Services.
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2022
News Release: HARPERS FERRY, W.Va. - Come commemorate Memorial Day at Harpers Ferry National Historic Park on Saturday, May 28, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., with the presentation of “Defend and Protect: Arming the American Soldier." This program will introduce visitors to Harpers Ferry's former gun-making industry and...
By State Newswire | May 18, 2022
Release: Amidst Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified war against Ukraine, the Lukashenka regime in Belarus has found new ways to intimidate and punish its own citizens, including by approving legislation to apply the death penalty to pro-democracy activists and those opposing Russia’s war in Ukraine. Specifically ...
By Homeland Newswire | May 18, 2022
News Release: Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) teams routinely enter dangerous situations where they need to make difficult, potentially life-and-death decisions. They’re expected to be ready for anything, think outside the box, and problem-solve on the fly. As is often the case, challenging circumstances such as...
By State Newswire | May 18, 2022
Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Hello. Good afternoon, everyone. Very good to be here with my friend, the Turkish prime minister[1]. Mevlüt and I were just together at the NATO Ministerial. I’m looking forward to pursuing that conversation. Today we had Finland and Sweden submit their applications, and this of course is a process, and we will work through that process as Allies and as partners.
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2022
Cooperative Agreement for CESU-affiliated Partner with Southern Appalachian Mountains Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit grant opened on May 18.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2022
News Release: POCATELLO - A Rexburg man was sentenced to 144 months in federal prison for distribution of child pornography.
By USDA Newswire | May 18, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; joined Senators John Thune (R-SD), a member of the Senate Finance Committee and the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; and Mike Crapo (R-ID), ranking member ...
