News from February 2023
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 18, 2023
News Release: Today, Secretary Mayorkas delivered remarks at the Munich Security Conference Intelligence Luncheon.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2023
News Release: Daniel E. Russo pleaded guilty today in federal court in Brooklyn to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute oxycodone, distribution and possession of oxycodone, and nine counts of filing false personal and corporate tax returns. The proceeding was held before United States District Judge Dora L. Irizarry. When sentenced, Russo faces up to 20 years’ imprisonment for each of the drug counts and up to three years’ imprisonment for each of the tax counts.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2023
News Release: Defendant Assaulted Girl in Laundry Room in an Apartment Building.
By State Newswire | Feb 18, 2023
News Release: Dear Under Secretary Estevez: We write to request information about the Department of Commerce’s implementation of U.S. export control laws regarding exports by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to designated State Sponsors of Terrorism (SSTs). The Secretary of State has designated Cuba, North Korea,...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 18, 2023
The US Environmental Protection Agency published a one page notice on Feb. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State Newswire | Feb 18, 2023
News Release: On behalf of the United States of America, I congratulate the people of Kosovo as you celebrate your fifteenth anniversary as a sovereign, independent state.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2023
News Release: ST. PAUL, Minn. - Two men have been sentenced to prison for trafficking methamphetamine that was shipped through mail from Los Angeles to Bemidji, Minnesota, announced United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 18, 2023
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Feb. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 18, 2023
News Release: Canberra, Australia - This week, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland visited Australia to highlight the importance of Indigenous Knowledge, collaborative conservation and international partnerships to inform the global effort to fight the climate crisis and preserve our land and marine environments ...
By Press release submission | Feb 18, 2023
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the guilty plea of EDDY ALEXANDRE, the leader of a purported cryptocurrency and foreign exchange (“forex”) trading platform called EminiFX, who solicited more than $248 million in investments from tens of thousands of individual investors after making false representations in connection with the EminiFX trading platform. U.S. District Judge John P. Cronan accepted the defendant’s guilty plea.
By Press release submission | Feb 18, 2023
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that WILLIE DENNIS was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff to two years in prison for cyberstalking three victims, all his former colleagues at a global law firm (the “Law Firm”). DENNIS was convicted in October 2022 following a one-week trial before Judge Rakoff.
By Press release submission | Feb 18, 2023
The Defendant Allegedly Defrauded Dozens of Elderly Victims Whose Average Age was 81-Years-Old
By Press release submission | Feb 18, 2023
The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints.
By Press release submission | Feb 18, 2023
A Boston man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for trying to hire a contract killer to murder his wife and the wife’s boyfriend.
By Press release submission | Feb 18, 2023
A Memphis man was sentenced to 135 months in prison, followed by ten years of supervised release, for sex trafficking of a minor and interstate sex trafficking, announced U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Jermicha Fomby with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By Press release submission | Feb 18, 2023
Two men have been charged in separate indictments by a federal grand jury for their roles in online romance fraud schemes, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger.
By Press release submission | Feb 18, 2023
United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that DAVID BROWN (“BROWN”), age 51, of Morgan City, Louisiana; GILDA HENDERSON (“HENDERSON”), age 70, of Morgan City, Louisiana; LATRELL JOHNSON (“JOHNSON”), age 30, of New Orleans, Louisiana; and STACIE WHEATEN (“WHEATEN”), age 51 of Fairburn, Georgia, were sentenced on February 8, 2023 for Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371, arising out of staged automobile accidents with tractor-trailers occurring in New Orleans.
By Press release submission | Feb 18, 2023
KENDALE ADAMS, age 41, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, pled guilty on February 7, 2023 to one count of possession with intent to distribute a quantity of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of heroin and methamphetamine in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and (b)(1)(C) and one count of felon in possession of a firearm in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2), announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.
By Press release submission | Feb 18, 2023
A man from the Philippines who previously resided in Lynn has been arrested in the Dominican Republic 10 years after being indicted for possessing child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
