News from August 2022

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that FAROUQ FASASI, 28, of Manchester, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 168 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in lottery and romance scams that defrauded primarily elderly victims across the country of millions of dollars.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Scott Erik Asphaug announced today that, effective July 17, 2022, he will step down as U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon. Asphaug will become the Justice Department’s Resident Legal Advisor in Nairobi, Kenya, where he will be detailed to the Criminal Division’s Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training (OPDAT) to work with Kenyan counterparts on justice sector issues.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Attempted Production of Child Pornography and Receipt and Distribution of Child Pornography.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: GREENSBORO - A North Carolina woman from Durham pleaded guilty on July 29, 2022, to tax fraud announced Sandra J. Hairston, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina.
By Press release submission | Aug 12, 2022
Three Smuggling Events Leads to the Arrest of 12 Subjects
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - A Mexican national was sentenced to 18 months in prison for unlawful reentry by an alien removed or deported after conviction of a felony.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Paso Robles man has been arrested on federal charges of selling counterfeit prescription pills containing fentanyl to a 19-year-old Atascadero resident who suffered a fatal overdose from the synthetic opioid, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Miami, Florida - Yesterday, a federal district judge in South Florida sentenced a 44-year-old former actor and movie producer from Bartlesville, Oklahoma, to 262 months in prison for his role in a financing scheme that defrauded investors out of more than $60 million. The defendant, Jason Van Eman, also was ordered to pay certain victims over $9 million in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANTONIO SMALL, also known as “Tone" and “Bert," 30, formerly of Naugatuck, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 300 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin and crack cocaine in Bridgeport.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - U.S. District Judge Troy L. Nunley sentenced Ou Vern Saeteurn, 26, of Sacramento, to 12 years in prison today for possessing with the intent to distribute cocaine and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: A man who apparently posed as a college soccer recruiter pleaded guilty this week to receiving child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Chad E. Meacham.
By Press release submission | Aug 12, 2022
USITC Makes Determination In Five-Year (Sunset) Review Concerning Large Residential Washers From China
By Press release submission | Aug 12, 2022
USITC Institutes Section 337 Investigation Of Certain Video Processing Devices And Products Containing The Same
By Press release submission | Aug 12, 2022
USITC To Investigate Economic Impact Of Usmca Automotive Rules Of Origin On The United States
By Press release submission | Aug 12, 2022
Commerce Department Identifies First Foreign-Produced Commercial Aircraft Exported To Russia In Apparent Violation Of U.S. Export Controls
By Press release submission | Aug 12, 2022
The future of 911 in Indiana: Tactical dispatch, remote operations, and backup
By Press release submission | Aug 12, 2022
Tribal High-Speed Internet Grant Program Adds $1 Billion in Funding from Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
By Press release submission | Aug 12, 2022
Rodgers Statement on Passing of Congresswoman Jackie Walorski
By Press release submission | Aug 12, 2022
Settlement Order Filed in Federal Court will Address Serious Issues at the Toa Alta Landfill in Puerto Rico
By Press release submission | Aug 12, 2022
California Company to pay $68K Penalty for Violations of the Toxic Substances Control Act at its Arizona Storage Facility