News from January 2023
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Jan. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that LAWRENCE RAY, a/k/a “Lawrence Grecco," received a sentence of 60 years in prison for racketeering conspiracy, violent crime in aid of racketeering, extortion, sex trafficking, forced labor, tax evasion, and money laundering offenses. RAY was sentenced today by United States District Judge Lewis J. Liman after being convicted at trial in April 2022.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: MOBILE, AL - A Daphne woman was sentenced last week to 81 total months imprisonment for one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, four counts of wire fraud, and three counts of aggravated identity theft.

By Commerce Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Jan. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: St. Thomas, VI - United States Attorney Delia L. Smith announced that Ramona Rivera Luna, 65, a native of the Dominican Republic, was sentenced in federal court today after previously pleading guilty to one count of transporting an individual in foreign commerce for the purpose of prostitution and three...

By Commerce Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement regarding misleading statements made by Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Jennifer Granholm at yesterday's White House briefing on H.R. 21, the Strategic Production Response Act.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: CONCORD - William Guerrero, 21, of Brighton, Massachusetts was sentenced to 12 months in federal prison today for conspiring to steal firearms from a New Hampshire Federal Firearm Licensee, United States Attorney Jane E. Young announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Shawn Anthony Graves, 29, of Huntington, was sentenced today to one year and one day in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base, also known as “crack.".
By Interior Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Jan. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: A Lancaster man who sold more than 50 guns without a license pleaded guilty yesterday to a federal firearm crime, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Leigha Simonton.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Fola Alabi, aka Folayemi Alabi, 52, of Richmond, Texas, pleaded guilty in federal court in Providence to charges of conspiracy and money laundering, admitting to a federal judge that he created companies and opened bank accounts that were used to launder more than $1.6 million in proceeds bilked from seniors in at least eleven states, including Rhode Island, in online romance scams, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: Des Moines, IA - A West Des Moines man was sentenced yesterday to eight years in federal prison for transportation of child pornography.

By DOL Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: US Department of Labor resumes regular enforcement activities

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: A federal court in Richmond, Virginia, sentenced three defendants today for conspiracy to commit forced labor for compelling the domestic labor of a Pakistani woman for 12 years.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - Liban Yasin Alishire has pleaded guilty to his role in the $250 million fraud scheme that exploited a federally-funded child nutrition program during the COVID-19 pandemic, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ROBERT BERNARDI, the founder and former Chief Executive Officer of the Virginia-based email security company GigaMedia Access Corporation, d/b/a GigaTrust (“GigaTrust"), was sentenced to five years...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Three Midlothian individuals were sentenced yesterday for conspiracy to commit forced labor for compelling the domestic labor of a Pakistani woman for 12 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: Defendant Accused of Spraying Chemical Irritant at Officers; Two Others Charged With Misdemeanor Offenses.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
The US Environmental Protection Agency published a three page proposed rule on Jan. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: MIAMI - Cast Lucas, 36, of Deerfield Beach, Fla., has been sentenced to 10 years in prison as a career offender by Federal District Judge William P. Dimitrouleas for possession with intent to distribute fentanyl.