News from October 2022

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: A New York man was sentenced today to five years in prison for his participation in a scheme to defraud a North Carolina-based life insurance company that caused approximately $20 million in losses to the company and caused it to be ordered into liquidation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Today, U.S. Attorney Dena J. King hosted the Western District’s Excellence in the Pursuit of Justice award ceremony, to recognize law enforcement personnel from local, state and.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - United States Attorney Darren J. LaMarca announced today that Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Bert Carraway will lead the efforts of his Office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming November 8, 2022, general election. AUSA...

By State Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Bonnie Jenkins and Japan’s State Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Ota Fusae have announced deeper cooperation to support the deployment of small modular reactor (SMR) and other advanced reactor technologies in partner countries. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Leominster man was convicted by a federal jury yesterday in connection with his participation in a wide-ranging fentanyl, heroin, crack and cocaine trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michael J. Driscoll, Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced the indictment of KONRAD BICHER for two counts of wire fraud and one count of aggravated...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS- Charles Kirby, 45, of Indianapolis, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison after being convicted of heroin trafficking conspiracy and attempted possession with the intent to distribute heroin following a three-day federal jury trial in Indianapolis.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston announced today that Assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA) Nathaniel C. Kummerfeld will lead the efforts of his Office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming November 8, 2022, general election. AUSA Kummerfeld...

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Joseph Cammarata, 48, of Monmouth Beach, NJ, was convicted after trial for his participation in a securities fraud claims scheme with two co-defendants from New York and New Jersey.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: The Bureau of Justice Statistics, a division of the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs, today released Human Trafficking Data Collection Activities, 2022.
By State Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
Release: The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America and the Government of Morocco, the Government of Niger, and the Government of Italy, on the occasion of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS Africa Focus Group Meeting.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Grandview, Mo., man has pleaded guilty in federal court to his role in a $4.1 million drug-trafficking conspiracy, which is linked to two murders, and which distributed approximately 520 kilograms of methamphetamine in the Kansas City and St. Louis metropolitan areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: DETROIT - A former Wayne County Roads Division employee was charged in an indictment today with conspiring to steal over $1.7 million in county funds, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy and United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: MIAMI - United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida Juan Antonio Gonzalez announced today that his Office will be working closely with Justice Department Headquarters in Washington and FBI Miami to investigate and prosecute violations of federal election laws in connection with the upcoming November 8th general election.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: A man who drove a vehicle while his codefendant leaned out the window and shot and killed a man was sentenced Thursday in federal court, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: BILLINGS - A Billings man convicted of multiple crimes stemming from an investigation into kidnapping minors, transportation of persons for illegal sexual activity, drug trafficking and firearms offenses was sentenced today to life in prison, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judges Thomas Barber and Virginia Covington have sentenced Marvin “MJ" Mitchell (36, St. Petersburg) to 15 years in federal prison, Christopher Hughes (44, Clearwater) to 8 years in federal prison, and Emma Leifer (26, Clearwater) to 6 years and 6 months in federal prison for conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, heroin, and crack cocaine.

By DOE Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Just over a year after breaking ground, crews recently completed construction of a protective enclosure, or “cocoon," around another former plutonium production reactor at the Hanford Site, leaving only one more to go.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has pled guilty on a charge of possessing a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.

By Interior Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: The Volunteers-In-Parks Program is now recruiting paid interns for the 2023 February Cohort of the Community Volunteer Ambassador program!.