News published on Federal Newswire in January 2023

News from January 2023


News Release: El Departamento de Justicia anunció hoy un acuerdo para resolver alegaciones de que City National Bank (City National) desarrolló un patrón o una práctica de discriminación crediticia a través de la exclusión financiera [“redlining" en inglés] en el Condado de Los Angeles. City National es el banco más...


News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to bank robbery charges, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.


News Release: St. Croix, VI - United States Attorney Delia L. Smith announced today that Wayne Jeffers, 52, and Charles Rawlins, III, 39, both of St. Croix, pleaded guilty before United States Magistrate Judge Emile A. Henderson, III, to Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Cocaine and Possession with Intent to Distribute a Cocaine.


News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Last week, Francisco Pantoja, 25, of Tucson, Arizona, was sentenced by United States District Judge John C. Hinderaker to nine years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Pantoja pleaded guilty to Conspiracy to Distribute Fentanyl in connection with the overdose death of a young person in July 2020.


News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, and Raul Bujanda, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Albuquerque Field Office, announced that Joseph Wayne Gadman was charged with attempted coercion and enticement of a minor. Gadman, 40, of Tucumcari, New Mexico, appeared in federal court on Jan. 19 for a detention hearing and will remain in custody pending trial, which has not been scheduled.


News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that EDWARD MULLINS, the former President of the Sergeants Benevolent Association (“SBA"), the union that represents all current and former Sergeants of the New York City Police Department, pled guilty today...


Barrasso Leads Strategic Production Response Act

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), along with Senators Jim Risch (R-ID), Mike Lee (R-UT), Steve Daines (R-MT), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), John Hoeven (R-ND), James Lankford (R-OK), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), Roger Marshall (R-KS), and Kevin Cramer (R-ND) introduced S.31, the Strategic Production Response (SPR) Act, to prioritize American energy production.


New Orleans Man Sentenced to Seventeen Months Imprisonment for Being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm

News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - On Jan. 18, 2023, United States District Court Judge Ivan L.R. Lemelle sentenced IRVIN CLARK, 47, of New Orleans, Louisiana, to seventeen (17) months imprisonment for violating the Federal Gun Control Act, announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.


EPA Fines Turbocharged Performance LLC in Sibley, Iowa, for Alleged Automobile ‘Defeat Device’ Violations

News Release: LENEXA, KAN. (JAN. 24, 2023) – Sibley, Iowa, auto repair shop Turbocharged Performance LLC will pay a $30,000 civil penalty for allegedly tampering with car engines to render emissions controls inoperative, in violation of the federal Clean Air Act. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the company sold or installed so-called “defeat devices” on at least 581 occasions.


News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Ohio has been sentenced in federal court to 10 months incarceration and three years of supervised release on his conviction of identity theft, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.


News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that JAMAL SMITH, pled guilty to various violations of the Federal Gun Control and the Federal Controlled Substances Acts before the Honorable Judge Carl J. Barbier.


Justice Department discusses Notice Pursuant to The National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993-Consortium for Rare Earth Technologies on Jan. 24

The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Jan. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A federal grand jury indicted a Brooklyn, New York, man for transporting stolen jewelry across state lines, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.


Huntington Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Drug Crime

News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Kameron I. Ziegler, 23, of Huntington, pleaded guilty today to aiding and abetting the distribution of 5 grams or more of methamphetamine.


What did Commerce Department publish on Jan. 24?

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


News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, announced that Richard Mascarenas pleaded guilty on Jan. 13 to one count each of kidnapping, assault resulting in serious bodily injury, and assault of an intimate partner by strangling and suffocating. Mascarenas, 37, of Taos Pueblo, and an enrolled member of the Pueblo of Taos, will remain in custody pending sentencing, which is scheduled for April 19, 2023.


In federal court, Alabama plastics manufacturer pleads guilty to willful safety regulation violation found in 2017 OSHA investigation into worker’s death

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.


Federal Reserve System discusses Change in Bank Control Notices; Acquisitions of Shares of a Bank or Bank Holding Company on Jan. 24

The US Federal Reserve System published a one page notice on Jan. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal judge convicted a Round Hill man yesterday on charges of receipt of child pornography and attempted destruction of evidence.


DOI-USGS1 grant application closes on Feb. 27

Cooperative Agreement for CESU-affiliated Partner with Rocky Mountain Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit grant opened on Jan. 25.