News from November 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that a federal grand jury returned an indictment yesterday charging ten individuals with conspiring to distribute fentanyl and cocaine base between February 2022 and August 5, 2022. The indictment includes nine additional counts...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: NEW YORK - The U.S. Department of Labor issued the following statement on today’s sentencing of George Laufenberg, former plan administrator of the Northeast Carpenters Benefit Funds, who pleaded guilty on June 3, 2022, to embezzling approximately $140,000 and making false statements to the department.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: DETROIT - A Michigan man was charged with attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, commonly known as ISIS, a designated foreign terrorist organization, and for being a felon in possession of a destructive device. The charges were set forth in an Indictment that was unsealed today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Crafton, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: Natchez, Miss. - A Mesquite, Texas man was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge David C. Bramlette, III, to 90 months in federal prison for his participation in an interstate drug trafficking operation distributing kilogram quantities of illegal drugs in the Natchez area from 2016 through 2018, announced U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Brad L. Byerley of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 54-year-old woman residing in Corpus Christi has been ordered to federal prison for mailing meth-laced papers disguised as mail to the Coastal Bend Detention Center (CBDC), announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a three page notice on Nov. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Karen Kidd | Nov 17, 2022
The U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration awarded $720,000 to help South Carolina determine how to replace 12 bridges in the Great Pee Dee River floodplain.
By Tamara Browning | Nov 17, 2022
The numbers of juvenile American eel using the eel-passage structure at the Daniels Dam on the Patapsco River in Maryland jumped to approximately 36,500 in 2022, up from 36 in 2018, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources documented.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Passaic County, New Jersey, man today admitted distributing fentanyl that caused the death of another person, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Nov. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Karen Kidd | Nov 17, 2022
Nebraska's newly re-elected 2nd District Congressman continues to see a threat from China and other bad actor nations buying up farmland in the United States
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that ERNEST DUNN, age 32 of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced on Nov. 10, 2022 for a violation the Federal Gun Control Act. He was convicted of a single count indictment charging him with possessing a firearm as a convicted felon in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2).
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Nov. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a four page rule on Nov. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Tamara Browning | Nov 17, 2022
U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-Florida) is raising concern over the trend of Chinese agriculture firms increasing ownership of U.S. farmland. Bilirakis believes that Congress must protect national security and minimize foreign adversaries’ investment in critical infrastructure.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Stephen M. Smith, age 42, of Bushkill, Pennsylvania, was charged on November 9, 2022, by criminal information with possession of fentanyl at the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Yesterday, JOSHUA DECKER, 37, of Bixby, Oklahoma, was sentenced to serve 60 months in federal prison for conspiracy to steal trade secrets, announced U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Nov. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Texas man was found guilty in the District of Columbia today of felony and misdemeanor charges for his actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the presidential election.
