News from December 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: ANCHORAGE - The Justice Department today announced the court-authorized seizure of 48 internet domains associated with some of the world’s leading DDoS-for-hire services, as well as criminal charges against six defendants who allegedly oversaw computer attack platforms commonly called “booter" services.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
Energy Audit and Renewable Energy Development Assistance grant opened on Dec. 16.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man today admitted producing multiple videos depicting the sexual assault of children, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: ANCHORAGE - An Anchorage woman was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Joshua M. Kindred to 20 years in prison for kidnapping an 18-year-old victim.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - A Williamsburg, Ky., woman, Jennifer Lee West, 60, was sentenced Tuesday to 4 months in federal prison, by U.S. District Judge Robert Wier, for committing Social Security fraud.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a four page proposed rule on Dec. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Quintae L. Stubbs, of Columbus, Ohio, has admitted to a firearms charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) recently reviewed a soybean plant and a chrysanthemum plant modified using genetic engineering to determine whether they present an increased pest risk as compared to unmodified plants. APHIS posted Regulatory Status Review (RSR) responses on our website as required under 7 CFR part 340.
By State Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: Fargo - United States Attorney Mac Schneider announced that Joel Alejandro Quinonez, age 34 of Puebla, Mexico, appeared before Chief Judge Peter D. Welte, U.S. District Court, Fargo, ND, and was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for the charges of Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Distribute...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The Justice Department announced today it has secured a landmark agreement to resolve a race and national origin discrimination lawsuit against the City of Hesperia and the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department that alleged the defendants engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination against Black and Latino individuals and communities in Hesperia through the adoption and enforcement of a so-called “crime-free" rental housing program.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A judge sentenced a drug trafficker to 10 years in federal prison Dec. 14 for distributing more than 500 grams of methamphetamine. The conviction and sentencing follow an investigation conducted by Homeland Security Investigations Corpus Christi, commonly called HSI Corpus Christi, with assistance from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Live Oak County, Texas Sheriff’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: Defendant Distributed Multiple Images of Child Pornography and Possessed Over 25,000 Images of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: GALVESTON, Texas - A 65-year-old has been taken into custody on violation of captain of the port order, making a false statement, obstruction of a proper compliance inspection and forgery of ships papers, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 8393, the Puerto Rico Status Act, with a vote of 233-191. House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) issued the following statement in response.
By State Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
Bolstering Security and Defense grant opened on Dec. 16.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
The US Interior Department published a one page notice on Dec. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: - The median estimated poverty rate for school-age children in all U.S. school districts in 2021 was 14.5%, according to data released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Merrick B. Garland, the United States Attorney General, and Michael J. Driscoll, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the unsealing...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man today admitted his role in a scheme to bribe mail carriers to steal postal arrow keys used to unlock mail receptacles and to use stolen items from the mail to fraudulently obtain funds from banks, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
