News from October 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: A man who possessed depictions of child sexual abuse was sentenced today to six years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 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 DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Steven Russell announced that Rogelio Salas, Jr., 26, of Weslaco, Texas, was sentenced today by United States District Judge John M. Gerrard to 33 months’ imprisonment for threatening to shoot employees and a specific victim who worked at the McCook, Nebraska Wal-Mart. After Salas, Jr.’s release from prison, he will begin a three-year term of supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that NEFTALI FERNANDEZ, 42, a citizen of the Dominican Republic last residing in the Bronx, New York, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 120 months of imprisonment for trafficking cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 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 DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown announced the sentencing of a Many, Louisiana man in federal court today. United States District Judge Donald E. Walter sentenced Damien Medlock, 36, to 151 months in prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Medlock was indicted in June 2021 and pleaded guilty to the charge on May 16, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
The US Justice Department published a two page notice on Oct. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - President Biden signed the Blackwell School National Historic Site Act yesterday, designating the Blackwell School site in Marfa, Texas, as part of the National Park System. This designation will permanently protect the site for future generations and help tell the history of Texas school districts that established separate elementary schools for Mexican American children through the practice of de facto segregation. .
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today issued the following statement on the U.S. Department of the Interior’s (DOI) announcement of the first-ever offshore wind lease sale in the Pacific.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Oct. 14, 2022, John Golom, age 57, of Florida, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani sentenced to 33 years and 9 months in prison for his involvement in a sex trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Lawrence man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to distributing counterfeit prescription pills containing fentanyl, made using multiple pill press machines.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - John E. Acker, 53, formerly of Santa Rosa Beach, was sentenced to 135 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to 37 counts of wire fraud and 7 counts of money laundering. The sentence was announced today by Jason R. Coody, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH - U.S. Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today that the Department of Justice has awarded $157,614 to support the Project Safe Neighborhoods Program in the Western District of Pennsylvania. Funding will support ongoing community efforts to reduce gun crime and violence in the district. The...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today announced key committee staff changes.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: DENVER – Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $23,351 in grant funding to the Center for Eco
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: MIAMI - A South Florida fentanyl dealer whose product killed a man was sentenced this week to 20 years in federal prison for the distribution of a controlled substance.
By State Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
Release: In this on-the-record, in-person briefing, Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Karen Donfried discusses U.S. joining European Allies and partners in rejecting the notions of redrawing Ukrainian borders by force, followed by annexation. Assistant Secretary Donfried also addresses why that is important for Europe and what that means for Europe historically, currently, and for its future as both whole and free.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
The US Environmental Protection Agency published a five page rule on Oct. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Monroeville, PA pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of refusing to make and keep adequate records related to prescriptions for Schedule II controlled substances, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Shane Harrigan (619) 546-6981 and Fred Sheppard (619) 546-8237.
