News from October 2022

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: Two Former Directors of Public Works Sentenced for Accepting Bribes.

By DOE Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Oct. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: KANAB, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management has initiated a 30-day public comment period for the Calf Creek Recreation Site Deferred Maintenance and Improvements Project Environmental Assessment to evaluate proposed improvements to the developed recreation site within Calf Creek Recreation Area in Grand...

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Christopher Gontaryk, age 47, of Wormleysburg, Pennsylvania, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury on one count of theft of government property.

By Homeland Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
The US Homeland Security Department published a one page notice on Oct. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Wylene Johnson, 41, of Chester, PA; Cookie Bundy, 41, of Philadelphia, PA; Hakeem Cooper, 42, of Philadelphia, PA; Louis Barnett, 43, of Philadelphia, PA; Barry Mitchell, 33, of Philadelphia, PA; and Tameka Edmonds, 32, of Marcus Hook, PA; were charged with various Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) fraud-related offenses in two separate Indictments.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: MIAMI - Julianna Clare Strout, 36, has been convicted of lying to get into a federal immigration detention center in Miami to see her romantic partner. Strout has served as a North Bay Village City Commissioner since November 2018. Her term expires this November.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: DETROIT - A real estate investor, who was previously charged in a $600,000 wire fraud scheme, has now been indicted for multiple counts of bankruptcy fraud totaling over $1.1 million, United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - An eight-count indictment, returned on Oct. 20, 2022, has been unsealed, charging Fresno residents Jeffrey Michalk, 43; Steve Gomez, 40; and Michael Dugan, 48, with conspiracy, theft of public money and aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Peter Gregorio Castro, 45, of Patagonia, Arizona, was convicted and sentenced on October 5, 2022, by United States District Judge Cindy K. Jorgenson to 46 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Castro previously pleaded guilty to Possession of a Firearm and Ammunition by a Convicted Felon.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: An Oklahoma man was sentenced today to 40 years in prison for transporting child pornography that he produced of an 18-month-old infant and for being a person required to register as a sex offender who committed a felony offense involving a minor.

By State Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
Academy for Women Entrepreneurs 2023 grant opened on Oct. 28.

By Homeland Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
The US Homeland Security Department published a two page notice on Oct. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: MIAMI - Following a nine-week trial ending in guilty verdicts, two leaders and an associate of a violent drug trafficking and money laundering organization operating in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood have been sentenced to prison terms.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Sally Schrom, age 67, of Mountville, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo to two years of probation for stealing government funds. The probation term includes six months of home detention, and Schrom was also ordered to pay $59,587 in restitution.

By Homeland Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
The US Homeland Security Department published a three page notice on Oct. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: Defendant Sprayed Fire Extinguisher at Officers, Illegally Entered Capitol Office, Tore Open a Box, Went Through Papers.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man has been charged with allegedly trafficking a minor he met on social media to engage in commercial sex acts.

By Tamara Browning | Oct 28, 2022
Agricultural producers have until March 15, 2023, to enroll in two "key safety net" U.S. Department of Agriculture programs for the 2023 crop year.

By Karen Kidd | Oct 28, 2022
The U.S. Department of Transportation announced Gloria Shepherd as the newly appointed executive director of the Federal Highway Administration.