News from October 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Canadian man was sentenced today to 174 months in federal prison for leading a drug-trafficking organization that intended to ship hundreds of pounds of cocaine and heroin from Southern California into Canada - and import MDMA (ecstasy) into the United States - using big-rig trucks and encrypted telephones to achieve their aims.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2022
News Release: ST. LOUIS - A man from St. Louis appeared in court Tuesday to face a federal carjacking charge connected to a fatal shooting in St. Louis earlier this month.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 20, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO (Oct. 19, 2022) — Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced $79 million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding to the state of Wisconsin for water infrastructure improvements.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 20, 2022
News Release: HONOLULU - The U.S. Department of Labor has found a Kauai restaurant allowed eight minors, some as young as 15-years-old, to cook and bake in violation of federal laws that prohibit employers from assigning hazardous occupations to underage employees, and denied overtime wages to 18 employees.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2022
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - Christopher Joseph Conrad, age 29 of Burlington, was sentenced on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022, to 96 months in prison following his plea to a charge of Felon in Possession of a Firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced today that seven directors have resigned from corporate board positions in response to concerns by the Antitrust Division that their roles violated the Clayton Act’s prohibition on interlocking directorates. Section 8 of the Clayton Act (Section 8) prohibits ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2022
News Release: A doctor licensed in the states of Oklahoma and Texas was sentenced for writing and referring compounded drug prescriptions in return for illegal kickback payments, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON ― The Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs today announced grant awards totaling more than $44 million to help communities address crises involving homelessness, mental health and substance use disorders and other public health and public safety emergencies. The grants will support...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2022
There is one release scheduled to be published on Oct. 21.
By State Newswire | Oct 20, 2022
News Release: Washington, DC - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY) and Ranking Member Michael McCaul (R-TX), along with Senators Chris Coons (D-DE) and Roger Wicker (R-MD) released the following statement after President Biden signed H.R. 4693, the Global Malnutrition Prevention and Treatment Act into law today.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 20, 2022
There are five releases scheduled to be published on Oct. 21.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal jury in New Haven has found KENSTON HARRY, 41, of Bloomfield, guilty of drug trafficking offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that AMIN HASAN, 44, of Stamford, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for unlawful possession of a firearm. Judge Shea ordered Hasan to serve the first six months of his supervised release in a halfway house.
By Press release submission | Oct 20, 2022
Final Cleanup Plan for Operable Unit 2 at Kerr-McGee Navassa Superfund Site to be Discussed at Community Meeting and Drop-In Information Session, October 18
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2022
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - A Davenport man, Davante Shamod Howard, age 24, was sentenced on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022, to 46 months in prison for Felon in Possession of a Firearm, to be served consecutively to a 14-month sentence imposed upon the revocation of his supervised release in a previous federal firearms case. Following his imprisonment, Howard was ordered to serve three years of supervised release.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 20, 2022
News Release: LENEXA, KAN. (OCT. 19 , 2022) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 7 and Haskell Indian Nations University (Haskell) have partnered to promote environmental collaboration and career opportunities for Haskell students.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 20, 2022
News Release: San Juan, Puerto Rico - Additional Disaster Recovery Centers (DRCs) are now open in San Lorenzo and Villalba. The joint DRCs, a partnership between the municipality, the Government of Puerto Rico and FEMA, will help Hurricane Fiona survivors apply for FEMA assistance, upload documents needed for their application and answer questions in person.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2022
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Will Thompson announced today that Assistant United States Attorney Erik S. Goes will lead the efforts of his office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming November 8, 2022, general election. AUSA Goes has...
By Bob Pepalis | Oct 20, 2022
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center will issue its winter outlook 11 a.m. Oct. 20 via a teleconference.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 20, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Petroleum Reserves announced that a Notice of Sale of up to 15 million barrels of crude oil to be delivered from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) in December 2022 will go live at 10:00 am on Oct. 19, 2022. This Notice of Sale will...
