News from January 2023
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
News Release: Davenport, IA - A Davenport man, Keith Deshon Euring, Sr. (also known as “Sweat"), age 54, was sentenced on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023, to 235 months in federal prison for sex trafficking of a minor and distribution of marijuana to a person under age 21. Euring was found guilty of these offenses following a jury trial in September 2022. Following his prison term, Euring was ordered to serve a five-year term of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Virginia Beach man was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for unlawfully possessing unregistered firearm silencers.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas released the following statement on International Holocaust Remembrance Day...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
News Release: FLOWOOD, Miss.- The Bureau of Land Management will host a wild horse and burro placement event, offering a limited number of excess animals gathered from western rangelands, on February 10-11, 2023, at the Okeechobee County Agri-Civic Center at 4601 Highway 710, Okeechobee, Florida 34972.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation is marking National Human Trafficking Prevention Month by taking several actions to raise awareness about human trafficking and how to recognize and prevent this terrible crime. Combating human trafficking in the transportation sector is a top priority for the Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that Denise Brown was sentenced yesterday to 144 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute heroin and fentanyl and 60 months for submitting a false claim to the Small Business Administration (SBA), to run concurrently. Brown was also ordered to pay $10,000 in restitution to the SBA. U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika pronounced the sentence.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
News Release: BATON ROUGE, La. - In support of the state of Louisiana’s request to waive rent for Hurricane Ida survivors living in temporary housing units (THUs), FEMA has authorized a waiver reducing rent to the policy minimum of $50 per month through May 31, 2023. Normal rent policy will apply to THU occupants starting June 2023.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska- The Bureau of Land Management today released a draft environmental assessment that analyzes the effects of conceptual design alternatives for the construction of a parking lot for the Campbell Creek Science Center (CCSC).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
News Release: 1,061 Pounds of Drugs and 393 Firearms Removed Off Streets and $1.3 Million Taken Away from Drug Traffickers.
By State Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
News Release: I extend my warmest wishes to the people of Chile as we celebrate the 200-year anniversary of our relationship. In 1823, President James Monroe named Heman Allen the first U.S. Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary to Chile. Since then, our bonds have evolved and expanded through changing and sometimes challenging times. The strong partnership we share today is a testament to everything we have achieved and overcome together.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - A Burlington man was sentenced yesterday to 10 years in federal prison for drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
News Release: On Jan. 19, 2023, the United States filed a civil complaint in federal court in Brooklyn against two firearm companies, and two individuals associated with these companies (collectively, “Defendants"), alleging that Defendants have conspired to defraud the United States and consumers, and have engaged...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Jan. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
News Release: MIAMI - A South Florida man pled guilty in federal court today to conspiring to buy and sell more than 2.6 million Medicare beneficiary identification numbers, along with other personal identifiers.
By State Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
News Release: The United States condemns in the strongest terms the horrific terrorist attack that occurred today outside of a synagogue in Jerusalem. We mourn those killed in the attack, and our thoughts are with the injured, including children. The notion of people being targeted as they leave a house of worship is abhorrent. It is particularly tragic that this attack occurred on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - David Jeffrey Edwards, 46, of Daniels, pleaded guilty today to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the convictions of GEORGE GULDI, a former Suffolk County legislator and disbarred attorney, and VICTORIA DAVIDSON for defrauding Ditech Financial LLC, a mortgage lender, out of more than a quarter of a million dollars. The jury convicted GULDI and DAVIDSON of all counts following an approximately two-week trial before U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein.
By Commerce Newswire Report | Jan 28, 2023
The IRS claimed to have no records for a massive budget increase that would have funded 87,000 new agents and a requirement for taxpayers to report transactions as low as $600; however, through litigation the Functional Government Initiative (FGI) has found the IRS has thousands of pages of documents detailing these exact issues.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A St. Joseph, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
News Release: CONCORD - Justin Smith, 34, of Rochester was sentenced today to 70 months in federal prison for one count of distributing 40 grams and more of fentanyl, United States Attorney Jane E. Young announced.
