News published on Federal Newswire in November 2022

News from November 2022


USDOJ-BOP-NIC grant application closes on Jan. 3

Networking and Professional Forum of State Correctional Directors of Training and of Human Resources grant opened on Nov. 2.


Operation United Front Results in Guilty Plea to Illegal Gun Possession by Macon Man Previously Convicted of Voluntary Manslaughter

News Release: MACON, Ga. - A Macon resident who was previously convicted and sentenced to ten years imprisonment for voluntary manslaughter in Bibb County pleaded guilty to a federal gun charge resulting from Operation United Front, an ongoing ATF-led investigation into illegal gun possession and drug distribution in Middle Georgia utilizing the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network (NIBIN).


News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Mexico, Mo., man who was in a vehicle that led officers on a high speed chase before crashing into several other vehicles pleaded guilty in federal court today to illegally possessing firearms and methamphetamine to distribute.


News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader Morgan Griffith (R-VA) today sent a letter to National Institutes of...


News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that earlier today a federal jury found ADEDAYO ILORI guilty of all six counts of an Indictment for his participation in a fraudulent scheme to obtain more than $10 million in government-guaranteed loans designed...


Bronx Man Pleads Guilty to Offering Bribe to Government Official

News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Muhammad Z. Aabdin, age 32, of the Bronx, New York, pled guilty today to offering a bribe to a public official, announced United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman and Special Agent in Charge Christopher F. Algieri, Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General, Northeast Field Office.


The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Nov. 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


EPA Region 7 Celebrates Clean School Bus Rebate Program in Sidney, Iowa

News Release: LENEXA, KAN. (NOV. 1, 2022) – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 7 celebrated the award of nearly $1.2 million in funding to the Sidney Community School District in Sidney, Iowa, to purchase three electric school buses through the Agency’s Clean School Bus Rebate Program.


News Release: NASHVILLE - A registered sex offender from Kansas City, Kansas, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Nashville on Friday to 15 years in prison for attempting to transfer obscene materials to a minor and engaging in this activity as a registered sex offender, announced U.S. Attorney Mark H. Wildasin for the Middle District of Tennessee.


News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and James Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge, ATF Boston Field Division, announced that CHRISTOPHER MATOS, 34, of New Britain, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to 100 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for firearm offenses stemming from his participation in the burglary of a Portland firearms dealer in December 2020.


The US Environmental Protection Agency published a five page proposed rule on Nov. 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


DOC offers new grant application process starting Nov. 2

National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS) Land Acquisition and Construction Program for Fiscal Year 2023 grant opened on Nov. 2.


Transportation Department discusses Airworthiness Directives; Hoffmann GmbH & Co. KG Propellers on Nov. 1

The US Transportation Department published a four page rule on Nov. 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Nov. 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Armed Waterbury Drug Dealer Sentenced to More Than 6 Years in Federal Prison

News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DARTRE BOOKER, 28, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. Circuit Judge Sarah A. L. Merriam in Bridgeport to 76 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for firearm possession and drug distribution offenses.


What did Transportation Department publish on Nov. 1?

The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Nov. 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Energy Department discusses Tres Palacios Gas Storage, LLC; Notice of Application and Establishing Intervention Deadline on Nov. 1

The US Energy Department published a three page notice on Nov. 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Federal Jury Finds Louisville Men Guilty of Conspiring to Distribute Fentanyl and Heroin, Distributing Fentanyl, and Firearms Offenses

News Release: Louisville, KY - Yesterday, a federal jury convicted two local men of a drug trafficking conspiracy involving heroin and 40 grams or more of fentanyl, multiple counts of distribution of fentanyl, possession with intent to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl, and several federal firearms crimes.


Monkey smuggler pleads guilty

News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A 20-year-old Katy resident has pleaded guilty to illegally smuggling a spider monkey into the United States and fleeing from federal law enforcement, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.


News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, announced that Luis Carlos Vásquez-Barragán, 51, of Nicolás Bravo, Chihuahua, Mexico, was sentenced to prison for possession with intent to distribute at least 50 kilograms but less than 100 kilograms of marijuana.