News from January 2023
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that DANIELLE DORSETT, age 54, and her brother, BYRON J. LAFOREST, age 50, both residents of Atlanta, Georgia, were sentenced on Jan. 19, 2023 for conspiracy to use false or counterfeit passports.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DEREK JONES, a disbarred California attorney, was sentenced today to five and a half years in prison. JONES ran fraudulent investment funds, including real-estate investment firms and a venture-capital firm...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, AL - In the summer of 2022, onlookers noticed a delivery truck stopped at about 8:15 a.m. one Wednesday morning on the University of Birmingham campus near what would have been the driver's first drop-off. About two hours later, a passerby saw the driver slumped over and unresponsive.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: AUSTIN, Texas - A Florence, Texas man was sentenced Friday to 15 years in federal prison followed by 15 years of supervised release for the sexual exploitation of a child and production of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Trenton man was sentenced today to 228 months in prison for his role as the leader of a significant drug trafficking conspiracy that distributed more than one kilogram of heroin in Trenton and the surrounding area, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
NIJ FY23 Graduate Research Fellowship grant opened on Jan. 25.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Reynoldsville, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to violation of federal narcotics, firearms, and money laundering 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 Chung announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
Fiscal Year 2023 Emergency Food and Shelter National Board Program (EFSP) ($130M) grant opened on Jan. 25.
By State Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
Release: Introduction. Good afternoon, and it’s an honor and a thrill to be with you today - to be back at DOJ holding court with this amazing group of lawyers who collectively have done so much to make the ideal of America the Beautiful a reality. And if you only remember one thing about what I say today -...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Jan. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on Jan. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) today delivered remarks on the House floor in support of the bipartisan (H.R. 300 ), a bill introduced by Representative Gary Palmer (R-Ala.) that requires federal agencies to submit information regarding consent decrees and settlement agreements to a public, electronic database.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Alexander Jefferson-Cooper, 29, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 60 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a felon. This prison term will be followed by a 3-year term of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: A Westbrook man was convicted today of two counts of sexually exploiting a child after a two-day jury trial in U.S. District Court in Portland.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, AL - In the summer of 2022, onlookers noticed a delivery truck stopped at about 8:15 a.m. one Wednesday morning on the University of Birmingham campus near what would have been the driver’s first drop-off. About two hours later, a passerby saw the driver slumped over and unresponsive.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Last week, ANTONIO MAURICE WILSON, 53, of Clinton, Oklahoma, was sentenced to twelve months in federal prison for knowingly engaging in sexual contact with another person without her permission while onboard a flight, announced United States Attorney Robert J. Troester.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. resident pleaded guilty in federal court to violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today released the first errata tables for the 2020 Census Count Question Resolution (CQR) operation. The purpose of the 2020 Census CQR is to provide a mechanism for governmental units to request a review of their official 2020 Census results and to help ensure that housing and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - A Cleveland man and a Wheeling woman pled guilty today to fentanyl trafficking charges, admitting that they conspired to distribute significant quantities of the lethal drug.
By State Newswire | Jan 25, 2023
News Release: The United States and Iceland held the fourth bilateral Economic Partnership Dialogue today in Reykjavik, led by Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Whitney Baird and Icelandic Director General for External Trade and Economic Affairs Ragnar Kristjánsson, with ...
