News published on Federal Newswire in October 2022

News from October 2022


News Release: On the 10th anniversary of the International Day of the Girl Child, the United States recommits to advancing the rights and empowerment of girls and young women in all their diversity around the world.


New Orleans Man Sentenced to 300 Months in Prison for Role in Nationwide Sex Trafficking Enterprise That Involved Incapacitating and Stealing from Victims

News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that RANDY JONAL SCHENCK (a/k/a RuRu, a/k/a “Shaq"), age 41, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana and Downey, California, was sentenced on October 6, 2022 by United States District Judge Barry W. Ashe after previously pleading guilty to Counts 1 and...


News Release: Christie M. Curtis Named Special Agent in Charge of the Intelligence and Surveillance Division of the New York Field Office.



News Release: Akil Davis Named Special Agent in Charge of the Phoenix Field Office.


BLM issues decision on proposed transmission line upgrade

News Release: Kingman, Ariz. - The Bureau of Land Management Kingman Field Office has authorized the UniSource Antares to Meadview 69 kV Upgrade Project. The project will improve power quality and reliability for customers in the community of Meadview, Mohave County, Arizona.


News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Carlos F. Matus, Director of the U.S. Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service (“DSS"), announced today that BARRAK ABDULMOHSEN ALHUNAIF, a former diplomatic attaché assigned to the Permanent Mission of the...


Tonawanda Man Pleads Guilty For His Role In Debt Collection Scheme

News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Greg MacKinnon, 56, of the City of Tonawanda, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the United States before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison, and a fine of $250,000.


News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Charles Abieanga, 31, Viviana Cervantes, 23, and Simon Abieanga, 28, all of Bakersfield, pleaded guilty today to separate fraud charges, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.


News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ALBERTO VAZQUEZ, 39, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven 120 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally trafficking firearms from South Carolina to Connecticut.


Biden-Harris Administration Sending States Nearly $60 Billion from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for America’s Roads and Bridges

News Release: President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law provides a $15.4B increase in funding over FY21 which goes directly to all 50 States, DC and Puerto Rico


News Release: October is dedicated to bringing awareness to breast cancer, a disease in which cells in the breast tissue grow out of control. As they develop, they may spread beyond the original site resulting in secondary malignant growths called metastasis. Approximately 264,000 women and 2,400 men are diagnosed with breast cancer each year in the United States. Of those cases, approximately 42,000 women and 500 men will ultimately succumb to the disease.


Forensic Bitemark Analysis Not Supported by Sufficient Data, NIST Draft Review Finds

News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has reviewed the scientific foundations of bitemark analysis, a forensic technique in which marks on the skin of a biting victim are compared with the teeth of a suspected biter. NIST has published its findings in a draft report, Bitemark Analysis:...


Port Angeles, Washington Man Sentenced for Damaging a Communications Tower During Three-Day Stand-Off in Olympic National Park

News Release: Tacoma - A 42-year-old Port Angeles, Washington, man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to three years of probation for interfering with a federal communications system during an armed stand-off in Olympic National Park, announced U.S. Attorney Nick Brown. Caleb Jesse Chapman’s actions...


Wire burning on BLM land leads to felony charges and hefty restitution

News Release: The combined efforts of BLM Wyoming, North Wind Construction Services, and the Hot Springs County Sherriff’s Office led to the conviction of two individuals charged with felony depredation of federal lands.


News Release: More than 30 Service Providers to Offer Returning Citizens a Variety of Services, Including Related to Employment, Health, Education, Food, Housing and Legal Services.


Quincy Man Pleads Guilty to Child Pornography Offense

News Release: BOSTON - A Quincy man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to receiving child pornography.


DOE-NETL offers new grant application process starting Oct. 12

This is a Notice of Intent to issue Funding Opportunity Announcement No. DE-FOA-0002854 grant opened on Oct. 12.


Foxx & Comer Reveal New Evidence of COVID Relief Dollars Funding Woke Initiatives

News Release: The lawmakers are investigating the Department of Education allowing COVID relief funds to be used to indoctrinate America’s children in leftist ideology


News Release: A Michigan man was sentenced to 38 months in prison today after engaging in a nearly decade-long effort to prevent the IRS from collecting unpaid taxes he and his businesses owed.