News from November 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: DETROIT - A Royal Oak man who repeatedly abused underage girls was sentenced to eleven years in federal prison for coercing and enticing a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity and for receiving child pornography, announced United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: A jury in the District of Columbia found former D.C. Metro Transit Police Officer Andra Vance, 48, guilty today of a civil rights violation for his unlawful beating of an unarmed transit rider with a metal baton without legal justification on Feb. 16, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: MIAMI - Members of an international primate smuggling ring have been charged with multiple felonies for their role in bringing wild long-tailed macaques into the United States.
By State Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: The United States is designating six individuals for acting for or on behalf of the Iranian state-run media corporation, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB). IRIB was previously sanctioned for its involvement in the Iranian government’s censorship activities. Two of these individuals are ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - Chris Oliver, 24, of Gilbert, Arizona, was sentenced on Oct. 17, 2022, by United States District Judge Douglas L. Rayes to 33 months in prison. Oliver previously pleaded guilty to Dealing in Firearms Without a License.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg and FBI Special Agent in Charge David Walker announce that the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office has been presented with a Child Protection Award for its role in investigating more than 100 cases that have resulted in successful federal prosecutions of child exploitation offenses as part of the Department of Justice’s Project Safe Childhood initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Will Thompson will join Mission West Virginia and other officials to help celebrate National Adoption Month on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022, at 11 a.m. at Bible Center Church.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
Methyl Bromide Transition Program grant opened on Nov. 17.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: A second attorney and two tax professionals have been indicted in the $1 billion Garza tax shelter scheme, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham and Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Tax Division Stuart Goldberg.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jordan Anderson, age 27, an inmate at the United States Penitentiary, Canaan, Pennsylvania, was indicted on Nov. 15, 2022, by a federal grand jury for assaulting another inmate and possessing contraband in prison.
By State Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: Ocean-based climate solutions have a key role in keeping the goal to limit temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius within reach and improving global climate resilience. On the occasion of the “Oceans and Coastal Zones” thematic day at COP27, the United States highlights the following ocean-climate action.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), along with lawmakers from the panel, will hold a press conference on Thursday, November 17 at 9:30 a.m. ET to provide an update on the investigation into the Biden family’s influence peddling to enrich themselves and announce next investigative actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA: A Burke County man faces decades in prison after admitting he coerced a child to produce sexually explicit images.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: MARTINSBURG WEST VIRGINIA - A Maryland man and a West Virginia woman are charged with working together to sell fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine for nearly two years in the Eastern Panhandle, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: DALLAS - Home healthcare industry employers seek workers willing to work hard and long hours to meet the daily living and care needs of clients - some with limited mobility - in the comfort of their homes. Too often, the U.S. Department of Labor finds employers like four Texas and Louisiana providers who fail to hold up their part of the bargain by not paying nearly 600 employees all the wages they’ve earned.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released a new report detailing the results of his investigation into the rise of domestic terrorism, including white supremacist and anti-government violence. The report found...
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The House has passed bipartisan legislation authored by U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Rick Scott (R-FL) that requires federal agencies to take disaster resilience into account when investing in and managing...
By Press release submission | Nov 17, 2022
U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and co-founder of the Senate Recycling Caucus, today released the following statement on the 25th anniversary of America Recycles Day.
By Press release submission | Nov 17, 2022
U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today released the following statement on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s supplemental proposal to further reduce methane emissions.
By Press release submission | Nov 17, 2022
U.S. Senators Tom Carper, Chris Coons, and Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (all D-Del.) today announced an award of $853,180 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to enhance air quality monitoring in Delaware communities.
