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By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Yurok Tribe in northern California has been selected as the first pilot location for the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Initiative, as part of the agency’s plans to develop tribally-led collaborative partnerships to proactively examine public safety issues - particularly those involving missing endangered children.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Calvin Butler, 24, of Dunbar, pleaded guilty today to a scheme to defraud the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) of $16,040 in COVID-19 relief loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: Merton Weed Jr., 50, of Norway, Maine, was arrested today on an indictment charging him with filing fraudulent claims for Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans and a fraudulent application for a Federal Housing Administration (FHA) insured mortgage.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
News Release: A federal jury today convicted Keith Wyche, also known as “Marco," of distributing fentanyl which resulted in the fatal overdose of a 43-year-old Staten-Island resident on April 18, 2017. Wyche and co-defendant Oneil Allen were also convicted of distributing heroin to a 28-year old woman on Oct. 27...

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Bryanna Danielle Kern, 25, of Proctorville, Ohio, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute suboxone.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Capitol Heights, Maryland, man was sentenced today to 2 years in prison for conspiring to engage in dogfighting.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - Glenn Dolford, 30, of Washington, D.C. pleaded guilty to one count of 2nd degree murder while armed, one count of aggravated assault while armed and one count of assault with a deadly weapon for the murder of Raheem Murray and shooting of Corvell Hayden and Marco Harper on Feb. 2, 2020...

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned a seven-count indictment charging 20 men and four women with trafficking cocaine in the District of Puerto Rico, beginning in 2017. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) oversees the investigation, with the collaboration...

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
OVC FY 2023 Peer-to-Peer Support for Survivors of Crime grant opened on Feb. 22.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
News Release: MIAMI - Palm Beach art dealer Daniel Elie Bouaziz pled guilty today to laundering money derived from his scheme to sell counterfeit artwork.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
OJJDP FY 2023 Community-Based Alternatives to Youth Incarceration Initiative grant opened on Feb. 22.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
News Release: Genaro Garcia Luna, the former Secretary of Public Security in Mexico from 2006 to 2012, was convicted today by a federal jury in Brooklyn of all five counts of a superseding indictment charging him with engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise that includes six drug-related violations, international...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that on Feb. 16, 2023, Henri Sosa-Gomez, 36, New York, NY, Jamel Romero, 30, New York, NY, Leonel Abreu-Montero, 31, Wilmington, DE, John Doe aka Arison Hernandez-Acevado, 31, Wilmington, DE, and Christian Sanchez...

By Press release submission | Feb 22, 2023
U.S. federal law enforcement arrested two U.S. citizens and a legal permanent resident living in South Florida and one U.S. citizen living in Tampa pursuant to criminal complaints on charges relating to their participation in the events leading to the July 7, 2021, assassination of President Jovenel Moïse of Haiti.

By Press release submission | Feb 22, 2023
Michigan man pleaded guilty today to money laundering and obstructing the IRS.

By Press release submission | Feb 22, 2023
A Michigan man was convicted today of filing false tax returns and making false statements to both a bankruptcy court and the Department of Justice.

By Press release submission | Feb 22, 2023
Allegedly Did Not Pay More Than $6 Million in Employee Withholdings to the IRS

By Press release submission | Feb 22, 2023
Assistant Attorney General for National Security Matthew G. Olsen Delivers Remarks on Haitian President Assassination Prosecution

By Press release submission | Feb 22, 2023
Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Amy L. Solomon of the Office of Justice Programs Delivers Remarks at the Community Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative Grantee Convening

By Press release submission | Feb 22, 2023
Thank you for those kind words and those important words, Amy, but more importantly, thank you for your outstanding leadership.