News from October 2022
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Oct. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds announced today that the Department of Justice has awarded $399,193 to support the Project Safe Neighborhoods Program in the Northern District of California. Funding will support community efforts to address the epidemic of gun crime and serious violence...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: Defendant Encouraged Mob in Confrontations With Officers.
By State Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
Release: In the wake of Russia’s brutal missile attacks on civilians across Ukraine, the mounting evidence of atrocities by Russia’s forces, and the firm and unequivocal rejection by 143 nations at the United Nations of Russia’s illegal attempted annexation of parts of Ukraine, the United States is offering additional military assistance to help Ukraine’s proud defenders protect their country.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
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 ...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of the Interior today announced nearly $10 million from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for 17 project sites to address legacy pollution and conserve ecosystems. These new awards are part of a $68 million investment made earlier this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - Zachary A. Myers, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, announced today that the Department of Justice has awarded $353,868 to support the Project Safe Neighborhoods Program in the Southern District of Indiana. Funding will support community efforts to address the epidemic...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Charlene E. Honeywell has sentenced Billy Rengifo Saaverda (44, Medellin, Colombia) to 11 years and 3 months in federal prison for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute 464 kilograms of cocaine and 217 kilograms of marijuana - approximately 1,500 pounds of narcotics. Saaverda had pleaded guilty on June 6, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: Received Over 160,000 Files Identified as Child Pornography.
By State Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY), together with Chairwoman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Chair of the Rules Committee James P. McGovern (D-MA), issued the following statement regarding the Biden Administration’s decision to provide humanitarian assistance to Cuba in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: Carter Healthcare LLC, an Oklahoma-based for-profit home health provider, its affiliates CHC Holdings and Carter-Florida (collectively Carter Healthcare), and their President Stanley Carter and Chief Operations Officer Bradley Carter have agreed to pay $7.175 million to resolve allegations that they ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A Gresham, Oregon man pleaded guilty today for stealing more than $77,000 in funds intended to help small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: PATERSON, NJ - The U.S. Department of Labor has issued citations to three New Jersey contractors who willfully exposed employees to potentially lethal dangers by allowing them to work near energized power lines at a Paterson worksite.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: DENVER - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announced Donald Albert Renner, 71, of Moffat, pleaded guilty to willfully injuring property of the United States, a felony.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Two Mexican nationals and one Texas man who are associated with the Jalisco Cartel have been sent to federal prison following their convictions of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute eight kilograms of meth, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester man was sentenced today for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy involving fentanyl and heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: ROCK ISLAND, Ill. - Todd C. Smith, Assistant Special Agent in Charge at U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Chicago Division, and U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Harris for the Central District of Illinois announced that Wesley K. Jacobson, 41, of Kewanee, Illinois, was sentenced to 143 months’ imprisonment for conspiracy to distribute at least 50 grams of actual methamphetamine and distribution of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
Release: FOR INFORMATION AND ACTION. DA-2022-38. Oct. 19, 2022To: State and Territory Agricultural Regulatory Officials On Oct. 13, 2022, the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) removed the Mexican fruit fly (Mexfly) quarantine in Harlingen, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that on Oct. 13, 2022, TEVIS STANTON, age 21, a resident of Orleans Parish, was charged in a four-count indictment for carjacking, drug, and weapons violations. Count 1 of the indictment charges STANTON with a carjacking that occurred...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Timothy Siverd, 34, of Rochester, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with wire fraud and money laundering, which carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
