News from October 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2022
News Release: Spokane, Washington - United States Attorney, Vanessa R. Waldref, announced today that United States District Judge Thomas O. Rice sentenced Guillermo Valdez, age 34, of Moses Lake, Washington, to 204 months in federal prison after Valdez had pleaded guilty on April 20, 2022 to two counts of Possession with Intent to Distribute 500 or More Grams of Methamphetamine and two counts of Felon in Possession of a Firearm. Valdez also was sentenced to 5 years of supervised release.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 20, 2022
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today praising President Biden’s announcement that he will release 15 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to provide relief to Americans facing high gas prices as a result of the latest manipulation of the global oil market by OPEC+:
By State Newswire | Oct 20, 2022
News Release: Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights and U.S. Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues Uzra Zeya will travel to New York City October 20-21, 2022. During her trip, Under Secretary Zeya will speak at a U.S. Department of State recruitment event at the City College ...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 20, 2022
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - A graduate in welding from South Carolina’s only historically black technical college is pursuing her passion in the Savannah River Site ’s (SRS) Liquid Waste Program.
By Bob Pepalis | Oct 20, 2022
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with the Bureau of International Expositions’ Enquiry Mission to further discussion on the U.S. bid to host the 2027 World’s Fair Expo.
By Bob Pepalis | Oct 20, 2022
A $3.5 million grant was awarded to SSTI to coordinate and lead a Community of Practice that builds the capacity of U.S. Economic Development Administration grants for technology-based economic development.
By Gregory Burnett | Oct 20, 2022
A temporary and focused Jones Act Waiver has been issued by the Department of Homeland Security to address Puerto Rico's needs as hurricane recovery operations continue.
By Lucas Nava | Oct 20, 2022
The city of Philadelphia has been awarded $1.56 million in federal infrastructure grant money from U.S. President Joe Biden's competitive, bipartisan Bridge Investment Program.
By Tamara Browning | Oct 20, 2022
A Florida man who pleaded guilty to a federal hate crime for a racially motivated attack on a black man faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, three years of mandatory supervised release and a $250,000 fine.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 20, 2022
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Workers with EM Office of River Protection (ORP ) tank operations contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) are “going green" with new battery-powered electric generators on the Hanford Site.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2022
News Release: LANSING, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Mark Totten today announced that Chief U.S. District Judge Hala Y. Jarbou sentenced Bryan Kennert, 57, of Norton Shores, to 30 months in prison after selling $43,354.94 of antique baseball card packs that he represented as original and unopened. The packs were opened...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man has been sentenced for conspiring to distribute fentanyl, heroin and cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2022
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - A federal grand jury in Indianapolis returned an indictment late yesterday charging an Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department sergeant with violating the civil rights of an arrestee by using excessive force.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2022
News Release: EVANSVILLE - Sergio Rascoe, 36, of Evansville, Indiana, was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Rascoe also admitted he violated the terms of his supervised release for his prior federal conviction and was sentenced to an additional 24 months in prison for a total of 70 months.
By Bob Pepalis | Oct 20, 2022
Rep. Tom Tiffany, (R-Wis.) said that U.S. foreign policy must uphold Taiwan as a free country that is independent of China and its outdated “One China Policy,” saying the United States can no longer allow Beijing to grow rich off of our fence-sitting.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 20, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $1,000,000 in research grant funding to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to improve wastewater monitoring to rapidly detect the emergence and spread of infectious disease in the current COVID-19 pandemic, and to detect other pathogens that could cause future pandemics.
By Andy Nghiem | Oct 20, 2022
President Joe Biden recently signed the Blackwell School National Historic Site Act, designating the Blackwell School site in Marfa, Texas the newest part of the National Park System.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2022
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - An Iowa City man, Angel Quintero Santos, age 22, a resident of Mexico who resided in Iowa City, was sentenced on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022, to 60 months in prison for Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance and Illegal Alien in Possession of Firearms and Ammunition. Following his imprisonment, Quintero Santos was ordered to serve four years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 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 DOE Newswire | Oct 20, 2022
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - An EM contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) continues to find ways to improve its small business mentor-protégé program, now in its sixth year.
