News from August 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Priyanka Kumar was sentenced to two years of probation and a $5,000 fine for engaging in interstate transmissions in aid of racketeering between 2017 and 2019, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, David Sundberg, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Hartford Police Chief Jason Thody today announced that ZAIQWAN FOTHERGILL, 20, and HAKEEM ROBINSON, 27, both of Hartford, have been charged with robbing a Hartford credit union in June.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), issued the following statement regarding a district court decision on oil and natural gas lease sales on federal lands. Today’s ruling in the Fifth Circuit strikes down a lower court decision that blocked President Biden’s ban on energy leasing.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Nicholas Vassallo announced today that ELVIN WAYNE MCCLAIN, 30, of Arapahoe, Wyoming, was sentenced on Aug. 18, 2022, for assault with a dangerous weapon with intent to do bodily harm. United States District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal sentenced McClain to 36 months’ imprisonment and three years of supervised release, and ordered him to pay a $100 special assessment.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Aug. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: Today, bipartisan leaders from the House Committee on Energy & Commerce and House Committee on Homeland Security sent a letter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) urging the agency to take immediate action to address vulnerabilities in its oversight of purchases of radiological materials. Last...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: WACO - Two Killeen men were sentenced today for their roles in armed robberies in Killeen. Roosevelt Jones IV, 26, was sentenced to 20 years in prison and ordered to pay $12,026 in restitution and Christopher Teon Fults, 29, was sentenced to 10 years in prison and ordered to pay $9,356 in restitution.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky - First responders - police officers, firemen, medical personnel, and all those who rush to the scene of a disaster to help however they can - are going to be first in another situation. Beginning Friday, Aug. 26, and every Friday after that, from 7 to 8 a.m., first responders can move...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) announced a Phase 1 Other Transaction award of $199,730 to Volt Athletics, Inc., a Seattle-based company, to further develop its Artificial Intelligence powered software system, “Volt," that will help the DHS workforce improve its overall health and wellness, especially for personnel who operate in high-stress and dangerous conditions.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Nicholas Vassallo announced today that EMILIO LEE WESAW, age 31, of Fort Washakie, Wyoming, was sentenced on Aug. 16, 2022, for assault resulting in serious bodily injury. Chief United States District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl sentenced Wesaw to 27 months’ imprisonment and three years of supervised release, and ordered him to pay a $100 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Aug. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
There are two releases scheduled to be published on Aug. 25.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: Spokane, Washington - Today, Chief U.S. District Judge Stanley A. Bastian sentenced Clifton Frank Peter, 37, of Wapato, Washington, to 600 months in federal prison, to be followed by a 5-year term of court supervision after he is released, and restitution in the amount of $86,170. Earlier this year...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - Jasaun Pope a/k/a “Biz", 31, of Valley Stream, New York, was sentenced to 97 months in federal prison late yesterday for mail fraud and money laundering offenses related to his role in a nationwide elder fraud scheme. Pope and four co-conspirators have all signed plea agreements for their roles in the offense, and Pope is the first to be sentenced.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, Aug. 23, 2022 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) today announced it has signed a $3,458,752.00 cooperative agreement with Minnesota to increase their purchase of nutritious, local foods for school meal programs. Minnesota is the first state to enter into a cooperative agreement under the program.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: Miami, Florida - A federal grand jury in Miami returned an indictment today charging a Venezuelan national for laundering the proceeds of substantially inflated procurement contracts obtained by making bribe payments to senior officials at Petropiar, a joint venture between Venezuela’s state-owned and state-controlled energy company and an American oil company.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
The US Environmental Protection Agency published a three page proposed rule on Aug. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: ATLANTA - Ibnisa Durr has been sentenced to federal prison for possessing a firearm after a felony sentence. Durr fled from officers in a highspeed chase on Georgia 400 before ultimately crashing his vehicle and attempting to throw a bag containing a loaded firearm over an interstate guardrail.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) joined “The Ingraham Angle" with Laura Ingraham on Fox News to discuss Dr. Fauci’s announced retirement from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and why that will not help him skirt congressional oversight.
