News from January 2023
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, a federal jury convicted a Markham, Illinois man of conspiracy to distribute 1,000 grams or more of heroin for his role in a large-scale heroin and fentanyl conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: Defendants Accused of Assaulting Officers in Lower West Terrace Tunnel.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Gregory Pum, 47, of Rochester, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with receipt and possession of child pornography after having previously been convicted of a sexual offense. The charges carry a minimum penalty of 15 years in prison, a maximum of 40 years, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man with connections to at least three fentanyl overdose deaths in Belton, Mo., has been charged in federal court with possessing fentanyl to distribute and illegally possessing firearms after law enforcement officers found 17 firearms along with a large amount of cash and illegal drugs in his apartment.
By State Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
Release: The United States, as chair of the Summit of the Americas process, will convene a virtual meeting of Summit governments, Jan. 24, to strengthen the protection of environmental defenders in keeping with leaders’ commitments made in Los Angeles on June 9, 2022, at the Ninth Summit. Assistant Secretary...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: BOSTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reached a settlement with IDK Ventures (which operates as Certa
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: A former Special Agent in Charge of the FBI New York Counterintelligence Division and a former Soviet and Russian diplomat were arrested Saturday on criminal charges related to their alleged violating and conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and conspiring to commit money laundering and money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: Defendant Illegally Entered Office of the Speaker of the House.
By State Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
Release: Assistant Secretary Pyatt: Thank you, Your Excellency, and thank you to Director General La Camera, for taking on a second term of leadership. We look forward to working with you closely in shaping a dynamic role for IRENA.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Gregory Pum, 47, of Rochester, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with receipt and possession of child pornography after having previously been convicted of a sexual offense. The charges carry a minimum penalty of 15 years in prison, a maximum of 40 years, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: The founder and majority owner of a cryptocurrency exchange, Bitzlato Ltd. (Bitzlato), was arrested last night in Miami for his alleged operation of a money transmitting business that transported and transmitted illicit funds and that failed to meet U.S. regulatory safeguards, including anti-money laundering requirements.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Two women residing in Monterrey, Mexico, have been ordered to federal prison for their roles in importing nearly 1000 grams of heroin, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Duquesne, Pennsylvania, and a fugitive from 2019 to 2022, pleaded guilty on Jan. 11, 2023, in federal court to a charge of violating federal narcotics law in connection with a large-scale investigation conducted by the Greater Pittsburgh Safe Streets Task Force, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: United States Attorney Clint Johnson today announced the results of the January 2023 Federal Grand Jury B.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, AL - An Alabama plastics manufacturing company has pleaded guilty to a willful violation of workplace safety requirements as part of an agreement filed in federal court spurred initially by a U.S. Department of Labor investigation into a 45-year-old worker's death in Helena in August 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: ST. PAUL, Minn. - Two men have been sentenced to prison for the armed carjacking of a woman in a mall parking lot, announced United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Justice announced a settlement with Genesee & Wyoming Railroad Services Inc. and numerous affiliated companies (collectively, GWRSI) for violation of Clean Air Act (CAA) locomotive regulations. The complaint, also filed today, ...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: ATLANTA - A FEMA disaster recovery center will open Wednesday, Jan.25 in Spalding County to provide one-on-one assistance to people directly affected by the Jan. 12 severe storms, straight line winds and tornadoes.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: Democrats in Washington feel burned, thanks to the loose lips of a Biden appointee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Gretchen Buselli (a/k/a “Gretchen Yarbrough"), 48, of Tallahassee, Florida, was sentenced to fifteen years in prison for use of an interstate commerce facility in the commission of murder-for-hire and making a false statement to a federal officer. The sentence was announced by Jason R. Coody, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
