News from January 2023
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A dockworker at the Port of Long Beach pleaded guilty today to participating in a scheme that submitted fraudulent bills to his labor union’s health insurance plan for sexual services or for physical therapy that never was provided.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Chesapeake man was sentenced today to 70 months in prison for conspiring with his brother to distribute a kilogram of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: The final sentence in a major methamphetamine trafficking operation signals the end of a prosecution that saw nearly three dozen defendants sent to prison after pleading guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
News Release: Training and seminars for Federal, State, and Local Law Enforcement Agencies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
News Release: Kevin Iman McCormick, 29, of Hamden, pleaded guilty today in federal court to attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
News Release: Fajardo, PR – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will host a community meeting for residents of Fajardo, Puerto Rico to share information about health risks from the chemical ethylene oxide or EtO, which is being emitted from a commercial sterilizer facility called Customed Inc.
By State Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
Release: The U.S. Department of State’s Rewards for Justice (RFJ) program, which is administered by the Diplomatic Security Service, is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to the arrest or conviction in any country of Mohamoud Abdi Aden and any other individual who committed, attempted or conspired to commit, or aided or abetted in the commission of the 2019 attack on the DusitD2 hotel complex in Nairobi, Kenya.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
News Release: Defendant Was Captured on Surveillance Cameras Inside the Capitol Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., woman was sentenced in federal court today for the armed robbery of a pizza delivery driver, after a suspect involved in the robbery was killed during a shootout with police officers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Rey David Marquez-Jimenez, 23, of Mexico, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Jennifer G. Zipps to 85 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Marquez-Jimenez pleaded guilty to one count of Attempted Murder of a Federal Officer. The Court also ordered Marquez-Jimenez to pay $99.57 in restitution to the U.S. Department of Labor for expenses related to the agent’s medical care.
By State Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
News Release: The U.S. Department of State’s Rewards for Justice (RFJ) program, which is administered by the Diplomatic Security Service, is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to the arrest or conviction in any country of Mohamoud Abdi Aden and any other individual who committed, attempted or conspired to commit, or aided or abetted in the commission of the 2019 attack on the DusitD2 hotel complex in Nairobi, Kenya.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
News Release: Board Advises the Secretary on Matters that Relate to the Travel and Tourism Industry in the United States
By DOL Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - To help identify and address barriers workers face regarding access to state unemployment insurance benefits, the U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of $9.1 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding to the New York State Department of Labor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
News Release: Defendants Arrested for Allegedly Peddling Cocaine, Heroin, Fentanyl, and PCP.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
News Release: BISMARCK - United States Attorney Mac Schneider announced that on Jan. 11, 2023, following a 2-day trial, a jury returned a guilty verdict on a charge of Bank Robbery against Robert Andrew Wolter, age 38, from San Jose, California, who robbed the Expressway Avenue Branch of U.S. Bank in Bismarck, ND. U.S. District Judge Daniel M. Traynor presided over the trial.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor announced changes to Occupational Safety and Health Administration civil penalty amounts based on cost-of-living adjustments for 2023.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - A few weeks ago, the Drug Enforcement Administration announced the seizure of over 50.6 million fentanyl-laced, fake prescription pills and more than 10,000 pounds of fentanyl powder this calendar year. The New Orleans Field Division, which covers the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
News Release: EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - An East St. Louis man received a prison sentence of 104 months on Tuesday in a U.S. District Court after admitting to possession of a firearm with a high-capacity magazine that operated as a machine gun as well as a 50-round drum magazine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA: A total of 76 defendants are named in a newly unsealed federal indictment describing a massive drug trafficking investigation tied to the Ghost Face Gangsters criminal street gang that includes allegations of multiple deaths from illegal drug overdoses.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Jan. 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
