News from January 2023
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Usbaldo Padilla, age 49, of Los Angeles, California, was indicted by a federal grand jury on an escape charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
News Release: An Iowa woman was arrested today in Sioux City for her role in an alleged voter fraud scheme during the Iowa 2020 primary and general elections.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - A San Antonio man was sentenced last week to serve 20 years in prison and pay $100,000 in restitution for the sexual exploitation of children.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
News Release: DENVER - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces that Bruce Holder, age 57, of Grand Junction, was sentenced to life in federal prison. Holder was convicted of conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and counterfeit substances, distribution of fentanyl resulting in death, distribution of fentanyl, and distribution of a counterfeit substance, after an 11 day trial in April 2021.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
The US Transportation Department published a two page rule on Jan. 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
The US Environmental Protection Agency published an eight page proposed rule on Jan. 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
Release: Today, the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands signed a Memorandum of Understanding affirming our close and continuing partnership and reflecting our shared understanding reached on levels and types of future U.S. assistance to be requested for the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
News Release: CASPER, WY - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), applauded the House’s passage of Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers’ (R-WA) bill to protect America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) from China. Rep. McMorris Rodgers is chair of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Marcus Payton, 38, Beloit, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 6 years in prison, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release, for distributing crack...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
The US Interior Department published a two page rule on Jan. 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
News Release: The Justice Department announced today an agreement to resolve allegations that City National Bank (City National) engaged in a pattern or practice of lending discrimination by “redlining" in Los Angeles County. City National is the largest bank headquartered in Los Angeles and among the 50largest banks...
By State Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Good evening, everyone. Very good to see you all. And let me say first, Secretary Austin and I just concluded a very productive and wide-ranging discussion with our colleagues - Foreign Minister Hayashi, Defense Minister Hamada - and this of course is ahead of President Biden hosting Prime Minister Kishida at the White House on Friday.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
News Release: LAS VEGAS - The U.S. Attorney’s Office released the following statement from U.S. Attorney Jason M. Frierson for the District of Nevada today to commemorate National Human Trafficking Prevention Month and National Day of Human Trafficking Awareness.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The former owner of an Olathe, Kansas, clinic that treated opioid addiction has been sentenced in federal court for possessing methamphetamine to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - An East Providence man who submitted eight fraudulent loan applications seeking more than $375,000 in COVID-19 relief business loans guaranteed by the federal Small Business Administration has been sentenced to four years in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $613,750 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Missouri Association of Councils of Government (MACOG), Jefferson City, Missouri, to develop broadband feasibility plans and provide technical assistance across the state. This EDA grant will be matched with $613,750 in state investment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
News Release: BENTON, Ill. - A man from Benton, Kentucky was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison in a U.S. District Court on Tuesday after pleading guilty to traveling to Illinois to engage in sexual activity with a minor in May 2020.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
The US Agriculture 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: 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 DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2023
News Release: EUGENE, Ore.-A Douglas County, Oregon man was sentenced to federal prison today for manufacturing and selling an illegal short-barreled rife and selling several ounces of methamphetamine.
