News from January 2023

By Interior Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Jan. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Anthony Ryan Webb, 42, of Ethel, pleaded guilty today to distribution of methamphetamine.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
The US Agriculture Department published a three page notice on Jan. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that FILIPPO BERNARDINI pled guilty to one count of wire fraud in connection with a multi-year scheme to impersonate individuals involved in the publishing industry in order to fraudulently obtain more...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: A former local district court judge in Arkansas was arrested today in Little Rock on criminal charges related to his alleged solicitation of sex in exchange for agreeing to take action on a criminal case pending before his court.

By EPA Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: SEATTLE (Jan. 10, 2023) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that it is proposing to approve portions of Alaska’s plan for combatting harmful particulate pollution in the Fairbanks-North Star Borough, and disapprove others. “Over the past 13-plus years, the state and borough ...

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Lawrence Isen, a former registered broker who participated in a criminal conspiracy to promote and manipulate the price of shares in publicly traded companies, was sentenced by United States District Judge Joanna Seybert to 5 years’ imprisonment for conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - WILLIAM JOSEPH DANIEL, 46, of Stephens County, was sentenced last week to serve eighteen months in federal prison for sexual battery, announced United States Attorney Robert J. Troester.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Jan. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By Interior Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of the Interior today announced that Elizabeth (Liz) Klein has been named Director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM). BOEM is the Interior Department’s lead bureau responsible for the management of America’s offshore energy and mineral resources. Liz succeeds Amanda Lefton, who served as the first BOEM Director in the Biden-Harris administration and announced her resignation, effective Jan. 19, 2023.

By Homeland Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: CHICAGO - Representatives from FEMA will host a Virtual Flood Map Information Open House for communities in Marion County, Indiana, on Jan. 12, 2023, from 5 - 7p.m. ET. The virtual open house will give residents a chance to review preliminary versions of the recently completed Flood Insurance Study (FIS) report and its accompanying preliminary Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 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 11, 2023
News Release: Friday, Jan. 6, 2023, will mark 24 months since the attack on the U.S. Capitol that disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress in the process of affirming the presidential election results.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Hagerstown, Maryland man has admitted to his role in an expansive drug trafficking conspiracy that spanned several states.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: وزارت عدلیه امروز اعلام داشت که منابعی را برای اتباع افغان و اوکراین فراهم میسازد تا ایشان را در حصه آگاهی از حقوق کار ایشان کمک نماید. این منابع برای مهاجرین افغان و اوکراین حمایت های قانونی انان به اساس قانون مهاجرت و تابعیت از ایشان در محل کار را توضیح مینماید، که براساس آن تبعیض در استخدام براساس ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today that Dion Williams has been sentenced in federal court to 20 years (240 months) on his conviction of violating the federal narcotics and firearms laws and for assaulting a federal agent with a dangerous weapon, and to an additional five years (60 month) for violating the terms of his supervised release for a previous drug crime conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - Jaylan D. Quinn, 23 of St. Louis, Missouri, pled guilty in a U.S. District Court on Wednesday to fatally shooting a security guard while robbing First Bank in East St. Louis in August 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA A resident of Wexford, PA, has been sentenced in federal court to three years' probation and 180 days home confinement on her conviction of various violations of the Internal Revenue Code, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: Memphis, TN - Daniel Kirtman, 25, and Michael Thomas, 24, have been sentenced to a total of 15 years in federal prison for federal firearms crimes. Kirtman was sentenced to eight years for being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession and transfer of a short-barrel rifle. Thomas was sentenced to seven years for possession of a machine gun and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking crime.

By State Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
Release: Today, the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of Palau signed a Memorandum of Understanding affirming our close and continuing partnership and reflecting our consensus reached on levels and kinds of future U.S. assistance to be requested for Palau’s economic development.