News published on Federal Newswire in May 2022

News from May 2022


Woman Pleads Guilty to Laundering More Than $700,000

Woman Pleads Guilty to Laundering More Than $700,000



Webster City Man to Federal Prison for 15 Years for Meth Conspiracy

News Release: Sandoval lived in Mexico for eight years as a fugitive before turning himself in at the border.


31 Gang Members and Associates of Mexican Mafia Charged in Racketeering Indictment

31 Gang Members and Associates of Mexican Mafia Charged in Racketeering Indictment


News Release: Leonard C Boyle, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that NICOLE STEINER, formerly known as Nicole Balkas, 32, of Stratford, was arrested yesterday on a criminal complaint charging her with committing health care fraud after pleading guilty and while released on bond in another health care fraud case.


News Release: Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area will provide assistance May 27-28, for family members who wish to visit remote cemeteries and do minor clean-up of graves of their relatives. This assistance will be provided to the park cemeteries that are not easy to access and located inside the park boundary.


Three Leaders of Little Havana Drug Trafficking Organization Found Guilty

News Release: Miami, Florida - Following a nine-week trial, a federal jury in Miami has found three leaders of a violent drug trafficking and money laundering organization operating in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood guilty of various firearms, narcotics, and money laundering crimes.


What did National Institute of Standards and Technology publish in October 2021?

There were seven press releases published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology in October 2021.


News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Michelle M. Baeppler announced that Aquileo Perez-Pineda, 52, a Mexican national previously residing in Georgia, was sentenced on Friday, April 29, 2022, by U.S. District Judge Sara Lioi to 188 months or more than 15 years in prison after Perez-Pineda pleaded guilty to his role in a conspiracy to manufacture, possess and distribute large quantities of methamphetamine in Northern Ohio.


EM Milestone: Last TRUPACT-III Shipment of Legacy Transuranic Waste From SRS Arrives at WIPP

News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - The final Transuranic Package Transporter Model 3 (TRUPACT-III) container of legacy transuranic (TRU) waste from Savannah River Site (SRS) arrived at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) for permanent disposal on the afternoon of April 14, capping the end of a journey for 239 shipments that began in 2011.


News Release: Miami, Florida - Fifty-four-year-old West Palm Beach, Florida resident Salvatore Renaldi has been sentenced in South Florida federal district court to 42 months in federal prison for orchestrating and running two investment fraud schemes that led victims across the country to collectively lose over $3 million.


Secretary Blinken’s Call with Swiss President Cassis

Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.


News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Leroy Reed, age 53, of Ithaca, New York, pled guilty today before Senior United States District Judge Thomas J. McAvoy to one count of receipt of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman, Janeen DiGuiseppi, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and New York State Police Superintendent Kevin P. Bruen.


News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Don V. Cisternino (45, Chuluota) has been successfully extradited from Croatia to face charges of wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and illegal monetary transactions. A federal grand jury in Orlando previously returned an...



News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting the illegal straw purchase of firearms and to conspiring to have drugs including fentanyl smuggled into the Western Regional Jail.


Clarksburg man indicted on firearms charge

News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Erik J. Wilson, of Clarksburg, West Virginia, was indicted today on a firearms charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.


Release: On behalf of the United States of America, I congratulate the people of Poland as you celebrate the 231st anniversary of the signing of your first constitution.


The US Federal Reserve System published a one page notice on May 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Republican Leaders Urge CMS to Reconsider  Limiting Access to Lifesaving Cures

News Release: Washington, D.C.-Republican leaders of the Senate and House Committees with oversight of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) are raising concerns with a recent decision to severely restrict coverage of a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved Alzheimer’s treatment and any similar future treatments, in a disturbing break with precedent.