News from October 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Adam M. Smith, 35, of Ashland, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty and was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 10 years in prison for possessing child pornography. Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: CONCORD - William Hallinan, 36, of Rochester, was sentenced today to 72 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute controlled substances, conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, and carrying a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, United States Attorney Jane E. Young announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
There are four releases scheduled to be published on Oct. 20.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that LOUIS AGE JR., and AGE JR.’s son, LOUIS AGE III, a/k/a “Big Lou", RONALD WILSON a/k/a “Tank", and STANTON GUILLORY a/k/a “Nan-Nan", all from New Orleans, were all sentenced yesterday by United States District Judge Barry W. Ashe to multiple terms of life imprisonment for their roles in the murder of a federal witness in a health care fraud case out of the Middle District of Louisiana.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
The US Agriculture Department published a one page notice on Oct. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
Release: Thank you, Vikram, for that introduction and to the USIP team for hosting us this morning on this incredibly inspirational and important topic. It is an honor to be on this panel with Ambassador Vinh and Ambassador Knapper, who I visited in Vietnam a few weeks ago just before I traveled to Quang Tri province in central Vietnam to see U.S. funded projects to find and remove unexploded ordnance (UXO).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, announced that Richard Orlinski “Sugar" Sanchez, 44, of Dexter, New Mexico, was sentenced to 23 years in prison on Oct. 12.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Oct. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: The United States filed complaints against six companies and related individuals to stop the illegal manufacture and sale of unauthorized vaping products, the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: HOUSTON - A 26-year-old man has been sent to federal prison following his role in a series of robberies in the Houston area, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: BILLINGS - A Billings man who admitted to trafficking drugs after he broke into the Drug Enforcement Administration’s building to see if agents had found the 10 pounds of meth hidden in his truck was sentenced today to five years in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said.
By State Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: Following the devastating impact of Hurricane Ian, the United States is providing to the Cuban people critical humanitarian aid to trusted international partners working directly with Cubans whose communities were devastated by the storm. The United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development, will provide $2 million in funding for emergency relief to those in need in Cuba.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement about President Biden’s reported plans to further drain the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) in order to bail out Democrats for their failed “rush-to-green" agenda.
By State Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Good morning, everyone. We’re gathered today as we see remarkable displays of courage throughout Iran as women, young people, and many others continue to stand up for the fundamental rights that continue to be denied them by the Iranian regime. This is in many ways not a new story;...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton has sentenced Dominic Taddeo, Jr. (65) to 3 years in federal prison for his escape from an Orlando half-way house, to be served consecutively to his remaining term of imprisonment on other federal convictions. Taddeo had pleaded guilty to the escape on May 17, 2022.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
There is one release scheduled to be published on Oct. 20.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO - The former president of Illinois Bell Telephone Company, which does business as AT&T Illinois, has been charged in federal court with participating in a conspiracy to unlawfully influence the former Illinois Speaker of the House of Representatives involving the company’s efforts to advance legislation in the Illinois General Assembly.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Bipartisan legislation authored by U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Ron Johnson (R-WI) that would help save taxpayer dollars by directing the General Services Administration (GSA) to install the most life-cycle cost effective and energy-efficient lighting in public buildings has been signed into law. The new law was led through the House by U.S. Representative Dina Titus (D-NV-01).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO - Five individuals in the Chicago area have been charged with unlawfully possessing U.S. Postal Service keys or stealing from the mail. The indictments were brought as part of “Operation Broken Arrow," an ongoing federal investigation into the thefts of postal keys and mail.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and the top Republican on the House Financial Services Committee, Patrick McHenry (R-NC), along with Morgan Griffith (R-VA) and Tom Emmer (R-MN), the top Republicans on each Committees’ Oversight...
