News from February 2023
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that MARIANNA LEVIN was sentenced to 54 months in prison for her leadership role in a broad fraud scheme that defrauded Medicaid for home health and personal care services that were not actually rendered, resulting in the loss of more than $100 million. United States District Judge John P. Cronan imposed the sentence. LEVIN pled guilty to wire fraud on June 1, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Fernando Santiago, 67, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford to possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and being a felon in possession of ammunition. The fentanyl charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years, and a fine of $1,000,000 or both.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
The US Homeland Security Department published a one page proposed rule on Feb. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
The US Transportation Department published a two page rule on Feb. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: CHICAGO - FEMA and the Ohio Emergency Management Agency announced today the release of $2,165,400 in hazard mitigation funding for a project to reduce flood risk in Boardman Township, Ohio. A current underground stormwater and sewer system will be replaced by the township, and the Forest Lawn Stormwater Park will be developed with assistance of Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) funds from the COVID-19 disaster declared March 31, 2020.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: ATLANTA - A FEMA disaster recovery center will open Thursday Feb. 2 in Newton County to provide one-on-one assistance to people directly affected by the Jan. 12 severe storms, straight-line winds and tornadoes.
By State Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
Release: Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland and Qatari Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani co-chaired the Global Discussions working group, within the fifth annual U.S.-Qatar Strategic Dialogue today in Doha.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
The US Transportation Department published a four page proposed rule on Feb. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: Defendants Accused of Interfering with Law Enforcement During a Riot.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Alaskan residents recovering from September’s Typhoon Merbok are still able to apply for disaster assistance with FEMA even though the application period has ended. Survivors have until Feb. 6, 2023, to apply.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: Des Moines, IA - Kenneth Quinton Crosby, age 24, of Des Moines, was sentenced today to 12 months and 1 day in prison following his guilty plea to four counts of False Statement During Purchase of a Firearm and one count of Unlawful Drug User in Possession of Firearms. Following his prison term, Crosby also will have to serve three years of supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that NICKOLAS SHARP pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to multiple federal crimes in connection with a scheme he perpetrated to secretly steal gigabytes of confidential files from a public New York-based...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: SAN DIEGO - A federal judge sentenced a high-level Guatemalan cartel boss to 210 months in federal prison on Jan. 27.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - WAYNE HANDY, age 29, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Carl J. Barbier to violations of the Federal Gun Control Act and the Federal Controlled Substances Act, announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: A Puerto Rico man is scheduled to make his initial appearance this afternoon at the federal courthouse in Manhattan to face commodities fraud, commodities market manipulation, and wire fraud charges in connection with the manipulation of the Mango Markets decentralized cryptocurrency exchange.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Feb. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: Defendant Carried Flagpole Into Capitol, Joined in Confrontations With Officers.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: Identifying, training, and readying the next-generation workforce is important to the continued long-term success of sites across the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM ) complex, and a contractor at the Hanford Site continues to invest in programs to support this initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
The US Justice Department published a three page notice on Feb. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price
