News from January 2023
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
The US Interior Department published a one page notice on Jan. 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Stockton, California has been sentenced in federal court to 100 months of imprisonment followed by four years of supervised release on his conviction for violating federal narcotics laws related to a nine-month Title III wiretap investigation into drug trafficking in and around the counties of Jefferson, Clearfield, and Allegheny, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The Justice Department announced today an agreement to resolve allegations that City National Bank engaged in a pattern or practice of lending discrimination by “redlining" in Los Angeles County. This resolution will include over $31 million in relief to impacted individuals and communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was sentenced in federal court on a charge of obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
News Release: BRAINTREE, MA - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Eversource Energy Service Co. for five violations of workplace safety standards after its investigation of a fatal arc flash and arc blast in Boston’s Beacon Hill neighborhood on July 12, 2022, that led to a worker's death.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
News Release: Contact: Mary Lee Knecht, 916-978-5100, mknecht@usbr.gov
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Jan. 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
Release: Contact: FNS Mid-Atlantic Region Office of Regional Communications and Partnerships. Sm.fn.ma-pa@usda.gov. DOVER, DE, Jan. 12, 2023 The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service Mid-Atlantic Region announced today that Delaware is one of 14 states that have been selected to participate...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
The US Interior Department published a one page notice on Jan. 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden man was sentenced today to 140 months in prison for his role as a shift supervisor of a drug trafficking organization and conspiring to distribute heroin, cocaine, and crack in the city of Camden, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
News Release: U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson announced today that the Northern District of Oklahoma collected $2,954,438.70 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2022. Of this amount, $1,958,593.62 was collected in criminal actions and $995,845.08 was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Jason R. Coody, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida announced today that the Northern District of Florida collected $4,367,699.63 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2022. Of this amount, $3,831,162.71 was collected in criminal actions and $536,536.92 was collected in civil actions.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
News Release: Every year since 2010, The President has designated January as National Human Trafficking Prevention Month. Since that time, the month has become a time to raise awareness about how we all can prevent this crime by learning how to identify and report human trafficking. One great way to raise awareness...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
News Release: “Today, the Justice Department has taken several significant enforcement actions to disrupt large-scale illegal gun and drug trafficking operations," said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland. “I am grateful to all of the Department’s agents, prosecutors, and staff involved in these actions, as well as...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Today, federal law enforcement partners from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon, FBI Portland Field Office, and Homeland Security Investigations Seattle Field Office join to commemorate National Human Trafficking Awareness Day and reaffirm their commitment to combating all forms of human trafficking.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $700,000 grant to the city of Brownsville, Texas, to renovate a former warehouse to create the Cannery Public Market, a multi-purpose community building in the Mitte Cultural District. This EDA grant will be matched with $1.1 million in local investment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The former mayor of the Municipality of Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, José Luis Cruz-Cruz, was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for his involvement in a bribery scheme in which he received cash payments in exchange for directing municipal employees to execute municipal contracts for the benefit of an asphalt and paving company and a trash removal company.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
News Release: A federal district court in San Diego ordered today that over $17 million in restitution be distributed to approximately 800 victims from over 40 different countries due to their investment losses in BitConnect, a massive cryptocurrency investment scheme, which defrauded thousands of investors worldwide.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Hudson County, New Jersey, man was sentenced to 51 months in prison for conspiring to distribute and possessing with intent to distribute cocaine, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Jan. 10, 2023, United States District Judge Robert D. Mariani sentenced Juan Esdrada-Beret, age 41, a native and citizen of Mexico, to 8 months’ imprisonment, for illegally reentering the United States after being previously removed following a prior illegal reentry conviction.
