News from October 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: Seattle - U.S. Attorney Nick Brown announced today that 17 tribes in Western Washington will get millions of federal dollars to support programs focused on community safety. The grant awards total more than $15.8 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, Ill. - U.S. Attorney Rachelle Aud Crowe announced today that her office collected.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A former pharmaceutical sales representative admitted his role in two criminal conspiracies involving health care fraud and wrongful obtaining and disclosure of patients’ protected personal health information, Attorney for the United States Vikas Khanna announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Middlesex County, New Jersey, man has been charged in connection with production of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.
By Lucas Nava | Oct 21, 2022
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), with support from the Biden-Harris administration, introduced the first set of projects backed by President Joe Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law meant to expand domestic manufacturing of batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) and the electrical grid, as well as for materials and components currently imported from other countries, according to a release published on Wednesday.
By State Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: MODERATOR: Good after – no, good morning, everybody. Sorry. Welcome to today’s call to preview Deputy Secretary Wendy Sherman’s trip to Japan and Seattle, Washington. This call is on background and embargoed until its conclusion.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: MIAMI - Delvin Thomas, 44, of West Palm Beach, Fla., has been charged with one count of extortion after using his chairman position to receive a kickback from a real-estate transaction.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: Training and seminars for Federal, State, and Local Law Enforcement Agencies.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: A Michigan man who stalked and sexually assaulted a 14-year-old Lubbock girl was sentenced today to life in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and several Oversight Committee Republican lawmakers are launching an investigation into the Biden Administration purchasing $1.3 billion worth of COVID-19 testing kits manufactured in China. Republicans are also conducting...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: This year La Niña returns for the third consecutive winter, driving warmer-than-average temperatures for the Southwest and along the Gulf Coast and eastern seaboard, according to NOAA’s U.S. Winter Outlook released today by the Climate Prediction Center - a division of the National Weather Service. Starting...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Central California Resource Advisory Council (RAC) will meet virtually on Wednesday, Nov. 2, from 1 to 4 p.m. The public must register in advance to participate.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: RIVER GROVE, IL - While federal workplace safety inspectors are used to some employers' disregard for workplace safety, the response of a Chicago-area carpentry company's site supervisor to a U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspector's notification at the site about workers without fall protection exposed to the construction industry's most lethal hazard - falls from elevation - was especially blatant.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A registered nurse and nurse practitioner who fraudulently billed commercial health insurers and Medicare nearly $4.4 million for services that he falsely claimed to have provided to patients in Rhode Island, New York, and Florida, pleaded guilty on Wednesday in federal court in Rhode...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: Offense is defendant's third federal drug conviction.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a three page notice on Oct. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: Following six weeks of trial, a federal jury in Brooklyn today convicted Anthony Zottola, Sr. and Himen Ross of murder-for-hire conspiracy and murder-for-hire in the October 4, 2018 killing of 71-year-old Sylvester Zottola as he waited to pick up a cup of coffee at a McDonald’s drive-thru in the Bronx.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: NEW TAZWELL, Tenn. (Oct. 20, 2022) - On Tuesday, Oct. 25, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will host several public forums at the Walters State Community College, 1325 Claiborne St., New Tazewell, Tenn. to share information about ethylene oxide (EtO) emissions and risk information impacting the city.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Morris County, New Jersey, man was arrested today by federal agents on charges of tax and bankruptcy fraud, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger and Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Tax Division announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal drug trafficking investigation has resulted in charges against ten individuals for allegedly conspiring to distribute at least 35 kilograms of fentanyl-laced heroin and crack cocaine on the West Side of Chicago.
