News from October 2022

By EPA Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
The US Environmental Protection Agency published a three page rule on Oct. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MI - Today, a formal investiture ceremony was held for United States Attorney Mark A. Totten at the Grand Rapids Center for Community Transformation. Chief United States District Judge Hala Y. Jarbou administered the ceremonial oath of office.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: ST. LOUIS - U.S. District Judge John A. Ross on Thursday sentenced a St. Louis man who killed a reality show star’s nephew to 32 years in prison.

By Interior Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: SANTA FE, N.M. - On Oct. 19, at approximately 2:19 p.m., the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office (Sheriff’s Office) received a report that an adult male was using spray paint to vandalize a petroglyph panel within the La Cieneguilla Petroglyph Area. Sheriff’s Office deputies were on the scene by 2:34 p.m. and detained the suspect for questioning.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: KANAB, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management Paria River District will transition to a winter operating schedule for Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument’s four visitor centers and the Kanab Field Office’s Paria Contact Station beginning Nov. 18, 2022.

By Interior Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: North Bend, Ore. - The road that accesses the Doerner Fir Trail in eastern Coos County will be closed temporarily while forest management activities occur on nearby private lands. Bureau of Land Management road 27-9-21.0 will be closed starting on Oct. 20, 2022. The closure is expected to last approximately three months.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Jacksonville man was sentenced today to 164 months in prison for trafficking heroin and fentanyl from September 2020, through January 2021. On June 8, 2022, Steven Rolle, also known as “Bank Rolle" pled guilty to two counts of heroin and fentanyl trafficking. According to court documents...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky. - A Lexington, Ky., man, Michael Allen Comberger, 57, was sentenced on Thursday to 60 months in federal prison, by U.S. District Judge Gregory VanTatenhove, for transporting an individual in interstate commerce with the intent to engage in prostitution.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: From October 17-19, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas traveled to the Republic of Singapore to attend Singapore International Cyber Week. On Oct. 17, Secretary Mayorkas delivered keynote remarks on the dynamic and evolving cyber threat environment, noting that we are at a pivotal ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: A Tulsa man was sentenced Thursday in federal court for attempting to entice an individual he believed was a 14-year-old child and for possessing child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.

By DOL Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: WHEELING, WV - A Millersburg, Ohio, contractor with a long history of disregarding workplace safety standards now faces more than $1 million in penalties after an inspection by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration found their employees working at dangerous heights without fall protection, this time at a West Virginia work site.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: Louisville, KY - Mangesh Kanvinde, M.D., of Batavia, Ohio, has paid $720,000 and agreed to be excluded from Federal Health Care Programs for fifteen years for his role in a scheme to order unnecessary durable medical equipment and genetic tests. The DME he ordered included commonly used braces for knees...

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A North Providence man currently on bail while awaiting trial in Rhode Island state court on drug trafficking charges, and who is also currently on probation in four separate state court cases, has been ordered detained in federal custody as the result of an unrelated FBI Safe Street Task...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: Wisconsin’s United States Attorneys, Gregory J. Haanstad of the Eastern District and Timothy M. O’Shea of the Western District, announced today that four Assistant U.S. Attorneys (AUSAs) will lead their offices’ efforts in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: LAS VEGAS - A Henderson, Nev., resident pleaded guilty today to fraudulently obtaining over $500,000 in loans under the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program, and then laundering the funds through family and friends to buy a house.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a two page rule on Oct. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Eric Grenier, 40, of Brandon, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Burlington following his guilty plea to a charge that he possessed firearms as a convicted felon. U.S. District Court Judge Christina Reiss sentenced Grenier to 24 months of imprisonment, to be followed by a three-year term of supervised release. Grenier has been in custody since his arrest in August 2021.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - An employee of Partridge-Sibley Industrial Services, Inc., a wastewater hauling business based in Jackson, Mississippi, pled guilty today for his part in illegally discharging industrial waste into the Jackson sewer system, announced U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Charles Carfagno with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 4.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
The US Environmental Protection Agency published a two page notice on Oct. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Oct. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.