News from October 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2022
News Release: Two Portland area men are facing federal charges today for running a local drug trafficking organization responsible for making and distributing hundreds of thousands of counterfeit Oxycodone pills containing fentanyl.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 13, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Oct. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2022
News Release: A district court judge accepted the guilty plea yesterday of the former CEO of a Jacksonville company who admitted to evading income taxes owed to the IRS based on a fraud he ran on his employer.
By State Newswire | Oct 13, 2022
News Release: Among its many impacts, the COVID-19 pandemic reinforced a crucial truth about threats to global health – they require rapid, effective, and sustained international cooperation. It is in that context that we are pleased to announce that Ambassador Pamela K. Hamamoto has been selected to be lead U.S. Pandemic Negotiator on the proposed accord on pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response currently being discussed at the World Health Organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2022
News Release: The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan participated in a G7 Joint Competition Policy Makers & Enforcers Summit (Summit) today as part of the 2022 G7 Digital and Technology Track. The Summit, hosted ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2022
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Donald P. Oshier, 56, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of transferring a firearm and ammunition to a convicted felon, was sentenced to serve 12 months in prison by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 13, 2022
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA - A federal workplace safety investigation into how an employee suffered a fatal electrocution while digging a shallow drainage trench under a home has found that a Savannah crawl space remediation company might have prevented the incident by following required safety standards.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 13, 2022
News Release: BOSTON (Oct. 12, 2022) – Today, the U.S. EPA recognized two individuals in Connecticut at the virtual 2022 Environmental Merit Awards ceremony. The awardees were among 20 recipients across New England honored for contributing to improving New England's environment.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2022
News Release: Natchez, Miss. - Two Woodville men were sentenced to federal prison for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and cocaine in Wilkinson County, announced U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Kurt Thielhorn of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
By State Newswire | Oct 13, 2022
Release: We, Australia, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States, are profoundly concerned by the escalation of the ongoing conflict and humanitarian crisis in northern Ethiopia. We call on the Government of Ethiopia and the Tigray regional authorities to immediately halt...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2022
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 13, 2022
The US Environmental Protection Agency published a seven page proposed rule on Oct. 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Andy Nghiem | Oct 13, 2022
The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently announced low-income Floridians may be eligible to receive financial assistance to help them recover from the impacts of Hurricane Ian.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2022
News Release: ***MEDIA ADVISORY***. Investiture Ceremony for United States Attorney William S. Thompson. CHARLESTON, W.Va. - The investiture ceremony for William S. Thompson, United States Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia, will be held on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022, at 2 p.m. Thompson will be joined...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2022
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Kevin Gerard Denson, 36, of Charleston, pleaded guilty today to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2022
News Release: ST. LOUIS - Three more people have been indicted in connection with the fatal fentanyl overdose of a 19-year-old in Jefferson County, Missouri, including those accused of supplying the man who gave drugs to the victim.
By Press release submission | Oct 13, 2022
Laredo Sector Border Patrol halted two vehicles involved in a human smuggling scheme
By Press release submission | Oct 13, 2022
Laredo Sector Border Patrol stops a human smuggling attempt
By Press release submission | Oct 13, 2022
CBP unveils ‘Se Busca Información’ campaign targeting five human smugglers operating in the El Paso Sector region
By Press release submission | Oct 13, 2022
Head Outdoors and Celebrate National Wildlife Refuge Week October 9-15
