News from October 2022
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 12, 2022
There is one release scheduled to be published on Oct. 13.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DWAYNE JOHNSON, 46, of Norwich, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to 130 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for gun and drug offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2022
News Release: A Nebraska man was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for making multiple threatening posts on an Instagram page associated with an election official.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 12, 2022
Cooperative Research Units Program Department of the Interior Geological Survey grant opened on Oct. 12.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2022
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Donna Laansma, 58, of Fairless Hills, PA, was sentenced to three years in prison, three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay full restitution by United States District Court Judge Michael M. Baylson for her scheme to embezzle over $1.8 million from her former employer, and for failing to report these fraudulently obtained earnings to the IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2022
News Release: Yakima, Washington - Vanessa R. Waldref, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, today announced two Department of Justice grant awards to the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation. The first grant allocates $1,000,000 to target violent crimes against women. The second provides $609,751 in additional federal funding to provide services to crime victims on the Yakama Nation. Both grants were awarded on Sept. 21, 2022.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 12, 2022
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Workforce Protections Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Keller (R-PA) issued this statement following the Department of Labor’s release of a proposed rule on worker classification, which will severely restrict individuals’ ability to work as independent contractors...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2022
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Louis Gilbert, 44, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiring to possess with intent to distribute, and distributing, 500 grams or more of cocaine, was sentenced to serve 36 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of McKeesport, PA, has been sentenced to 21 months imprisonment and three years of supervised release on charges of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Cindy K Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2022
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Dennis “Denny" Doyle, the former mayor of Beaverton, Oregon, pleaded guilty today in federal court to illegally possessing child pornography.
By State Newswire | Oct 12, 2022
Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By Tamara Browning | Oct 12, 2022
A Texas man has been sentenced to more than 20 years in federal prison for sex trafficking a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2022
News Release: Earlier today, a federal jury in Brooklyn convicted Mustafa Goklu, also known as “Mustangy," of money laundering and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business as part of a scheme to launder the purported Bitcoin proceeds of drug trafficking. The verdict followed a four-day trial before United States District Judge Pamela K. Chen. When sentenced, Goklu faces up to 25 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2022
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2022
News Release: HOUSTON - A federal jury in Houston has convicted a 65-year-old Houston resident for conspiracy to commit health care fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 12, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor will publish a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Oct. 13 to help employers and workers determine whether a worker is an employee or an independent contractor under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
By Karen Kidd | Oct 12, 2022
More than $95.7 million in federal assistance has been provided in areas of Kentucky effected by the federal disaster declaration following tornadoes in December.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 12, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Energy Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Upton (R-MI), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican Leader Morgan Griffith (R-VA) are vowing vigorous oversight over the implementation of Department of Energy’s (DOE) loan programs, which Democrats expanded in their massive tax and spending sprees.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2022
News Release: MACON, Ga. - A federal grand jury has returned a 30-count indictment charging two former employees and the former director of a daycare facility located on Robins Air Force Base, Warner Robins, Georgia, with charges related to the alleged abuse of children in their care.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2022
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge William F. Jung has sentenced Baron Matson (45, Brisbane, Australia) to five years in federal prison for conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud. As part of his sentence, the court also ordered Matson to pay $4,319,762 in restitution and entered an order of forfeiture in the amount of $1,285,000, which represented proceeds of the charged criminal conduct. Matson had pleaded guilty on Aug. 23, 2022.
