News from January 2023
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that defendant RANDY FIELDS, of Orleans Parish, was sentenced on Jan. 17, 2023 by U.S. District Court Judge Jay C. Zainey on four-counts of a four-count indictment to a combined total of 125 months imprisonment, 4 years of supervised release, and a $400 mandatory special assessment fee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - A man originally from Mexico was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison in a U.S. District Court on Wednesday after admitting to possessing hundreds of grams of a controlled substance containing fentanyl with intent to distribute.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: Good morning and welcome. It is really wonderful to see all of you here today. It is heartwarming, inspiring, and a source of pride to see friends and colleagues past and present, you have given so much of yourselves to our Department and our country, and who mean so very much to all of us.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
The US Transportation Department published a three page notice on Jan. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - A Chillicothe, Illinois, man, Tyler W. Massengill, 32, of the 1000 block of North Sante Fe Avenue, has been arrested and charged by criminal complaint with malicious use of fire and an explosive to damage, and attempt to damage, the Planned Parenthood building in Peoria, Illinois.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
The US Environmental Protection Agency published a two page notice on Jan. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - STEPHEN CHENIER, age 40, a resident of Vacherie, Louisiana, was sentenced on Jan. 11, 2023 by U.S. District Judge Lance M. Africk to sixty-six (66) months’ imprisonment, four (4) years of supervised release, and a mandatory $300.00 special assessment fee after pleading guilty...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: St. Thomas, VI - United States Attorney Delia L. announced today that Cleon Otto, Jr., 35, of St. Thomas, pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of altering official documents.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
Release: SEATTLE - Officers with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) have discovered 11 firearms in travelers carry-on luggage during routine X-ray screening at the airports security checkpoints so far this year. This is up from seven firearms discovered at the same point in 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Sussex County, New Jersey, woman was sentenced today to 34 months in prison for concealing her attempts to provide material support to Syrian foreign terrorist organizations, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger, Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen of the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Security Division, FBI-Newark Special Agent in Charge James E. Dennehy, and FBI Assistant Director for Counterterrorism Timothy Langan announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - United States District Court Chief Judge Raúl Arias-Marxuach sentenced Aníbal Joel Burgos-Vargas to 21 years and 10 months in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release for transporting a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity. Burgos-Vargas was indicted on Nov. 17, 2021 and plead guilty on Oct. 17, 2022.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Jan. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
DRL Enabling Civil Society Efforts to Combat Climate Change and Protect the Environment grant opened on Jan. 25.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: FAYETTEVILLE - A Cave Springs man and former general manager at several Northwest Arkansas car dealerships pleaded guilty yesterday to evading more than $263,000 in federal income taxes. U.S. District Judge Timothy L. Brooks presided over the plea hearing, in Jonathan M. Wichman, 35, waived indictment and pleaded guilty to a criminal information charging him with tax evasion.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Yesterday, JAMES “DOC" LOVE, 53, of Norman, Oklahoma, was sentenced for Tampering with a Monitoring Device and Method Required to be Maintained Under the Clean Air Act, announced United States Attorney Robert J. Troester.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Julie R. Rubin today sentenced D’Andre Preston, age 26, of Baltimore, to 25 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for participating in a violent racketeering conspiracy, specifically, the NFL Criminal Enterprise, including committing...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: Сегодня в федеральном суде Бруклина было обнародовано обвинительное заключение по восьми пунктам, в котором Марату Лернеру [Marat Lerner], президенту компании Lerner Group, было предъявлено обвинение в заговоре с целью совершения мошенничества с использованием электронных средств, мошенничества с использованием электронных средств и отмывания денег в связи со схемой кражи у клиентов его компании по изменению ипотечных кредитов.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Jan. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State Newswire Report | Jan 25, 2023
U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) has noted that the Republican chairman of a new House Select Committee on China wants to focus on the issues of "ideological competition and human rights," but McGovern wants it made clear that human rights are not ideological.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $19.6 million grant to the Department of Finance of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands to fund construction of disaster-resilient infrastructure needed to ensure continuity of government operations and support business growth. The EDA grant is expected to create 1,500 jobs.
