News from October 2022

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: PRC Officials Directed Multi-Year Campaign of Harassment Intended to Coerce U.S. Resident to Return to the PRC.

By DOL Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Oct. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By State Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, announced that on Oct. 18 Derick Martin Garcia Pacheco was sentenced to 11 years and 3 months in prison. Garcia Pacheco, 33, of Albuquerque, pleaded guilty on May 10 to one count of assault on a federal officer using a deadly or dangerous weapon and inflicting bodily injury and one count of being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: CAPE GIRARDEAU - The United States Attorney's Office announced that Haoyu Wang, age 29, has been sentenced to serve seven years in federal prison for the offense of Possession of Child Pornography. Wang appeared for his sentencing hearing Monday before United States District Judge Stephen R. Clark at the federal courthouse in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: ROCKFORD - A suburban Chicago man has been sentenced to more than ten years in federal prison for trafficking fentanyl and heroin.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
Release: Thank you, Andres, for that introduction. Welcome to the Commerce Department’s Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Summit. I’m thrilled to be joined by Deputy Secretary Graves and Under Secretary Cravins. And most importantly, thank you all for participating today.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Oct. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By Homeland Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
Release: INDIANAPOLIS The Transportation Security Administrations (TSA) Indiana Explosive Detection Canine Program hosted its sixth-annual Multi-Agency K9 Training Event in Avon on Friday.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that John Williams, age 42, of Kingston, Luzerne County, pleaded guilty on Oct. 19, 2022, before U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion, to the charge of conspiracy to distribute more than 40 grams of fentanyl.

By EPA Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced additional actions to phase down climate-damaging hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), a crucial component of President Biden’s ambitious agenda to combat the climate crisis while advancing American manufacturing and innovation. EPA today ...

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO - Seven Chicago-area residents have been indicted on federal charges for allegedly fraudulently obtaining at least $16 million in small business loans and grants under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (“CARES") Act.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: ATHENS, Ga. -- An Athens resident was convicted by a federal jury of trafficking methamphetamine resulting from an investigation and subsequent arrest during which she and a co-defendant attempted to flee law enforcement with her two-year-old grandchild in the car.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: New Orleans, LA - On Oct. 15, 2019, with critical support from the U.S. Border Patrol, New Orleans Police Department (NOPD), and the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) International Division, the USMS New Orleans Task Force located and arrested NOPD fugitive, Martin Jose Jarquin-Estrada, 31 years of age, in Zacatecas, Mexico. He was wanted by NOPD for a 2017 Murder.

By DOL Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: ATLANTA - Dollar General Corp. and Dolgencorp LLC - operator of more than 18,000 Dollar General discount stores in 47 states - has again ignored federal workplace safety standards, this time identified during inspections at four locations in Alabama, Florida and Georgia. The company faces $1,680,216 in proposed penalties after these inspections, a portion of the more than $9.6 million in total initial penalties the company has received since 2017.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - United States Attorney Gary Restaino joins the U.S. Department of Justice, the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), advocates, survivors, victim service providers, justice professionals, police and first responders, communities across the U.S. and sovereign tribal nations in observing October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM).
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a four page proposed rule on Oct. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Hudson County, New Jersey, man was arrested this morning for unlawfully using victims’ personal identification information to steal over $1 million, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - A federal grand jury in Indianapolis, returned a five-count superseding indictment late yesterday charging a former New Castle, Indiana, police officer with excessive force and obstruction of justice, and a former Henry County, Indiana, Reserve Sheriff’s Deputy with obstruction of justice.

By Interior Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland traveled to Kentucky today to announce a $74,252,680 investment from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to create good-paying union jobs and catalyze economic opportunity by reclaiming abandoned mine lands (AML) in the state. This is ...