News from October 2022
By EPA Newswire | Oct 7, 2022
News Release: DALLAS, TEXAS (Oct. 6 2022) – Recently, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a grant to the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center at El Paso to assess the impacts of pesticide use and its health effects on migrant farmworkers and their children along the US/Mexico Border. The ...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 7, 2022
News Release: LAKEVIEW, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Lakeview Field Office has hired three new employees, Dacey Mercer, Michael Collins, and Patrick Zingerella.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A San Bernardino County man was sentenced today to 60 months in federal prison for committing 52 smash-and-grab robberies of T-Mobile and AT&T cellphone stores throughout Southern California during a two-month crime spree, using hammers to smash display cases to steal iPhones and other merchandise.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2022
News Release: ORANGE, Conn. - Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that Yale University, on behalf of Yale Medicine and the Yale Fertility Center, has entered into a civil settlement agreement with the federal government in which it will pay a total of $308,250 to resolve allegations that it violated civil provisions of the Controlled Substances Act.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 7, 2022
There are two releases scheduled to be published on Oct. 11.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Big Run, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to violation of federal narcotics laws related to a nine-month Title III wiretap investigation into drug trafficking in and around the counties of Jefferson, Clearfield, and Allegheny, United States Attorney Cindy Chung announced today.
By State Newswire | Oct 7, 2022
Release: On behalf of the United States, I am honoured today to address the human dimensions of security in the context of conflict, particularly the consequences of Russia’s unrelenting, illegal war against Ukraine. Russia’s unconscionable violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty has wrought death and destruction, endangered the region and the larger international community, and shredded the key principles on which this body was founded.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2022
News Release: NASHVILLE - A federal indictment unsealed today charges eleven individuals with violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, announced U.S. Attorney Mark H. Wildasin, for the Middle District of Tennessee and Kristen M. Clarke, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - A District of Columbia man pleaded guilty today to charges stemming from a scheme in which he pretended to be a federal law enforcement officer for a range of purposes, including to maintain a series of apartments in which he then failed to pay rent. He also admitted carrying out a bank fraud scheme in which he obtained more than $1 million and used his false law enforcement credentials to pressure individuals recruited to the scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Le’Var Brown, formerly of Sharon, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 57 months in prison for committing firearm and ammunition crimes, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2022
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - Michael O. Falcone, 41, of McComb, Mississippi, was sentenced today for illegal possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown. United States District Judge James D. Cain, Jr. sentenced Falcone to 18 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2022
News Release: Dallas FBI Fiscal Year 2022 Investigative Successes.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2022
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Norman Leon Geipe II, 39, pleaded guilty today to resisting a federal officer causing bodily injury.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 7, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) joined U.S. Rep. JennifferGonzález Colón (R-Puerto Rico) in Puerto Rico to assess the damage from Hurricane Fiona and discuss next steps for the island's recovery.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 7, 2022
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., issued the following statement on the Biden administration's executive action on cannabis...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 7, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Last month, Republican members introduced the Transparency and Production of (TAP) American Energy Actwith the support of many stakeholdergroups and organizations.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 7, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a final rule to amend H-2A temporary labor certification regulations to protect agricultural workers better, and to update the H-2A application and temporary labor certification process. The final rule will be published in the Federal Register on Oct. 12, 2022.
By State Newswire | Oct 7, 2022
Release: Secretary Blinken will lead the United States delegation to the 52nd Organization of American States (OAS) General Assembly in Lima, Peru October 6-7. Delegates will convene under the theme “Together Against Inequality and Discrimination" for the first in-person General Assembly since 2019. Secretary Blinken will engage regional leaders on shared priorities, including combatting discrimination and intolerance, safeguarding democracy, and protecting human rights.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - An Orange County physician pleaded guilty today to a federal criminal charge for conspiring to illegally prescribe more than 120,000 opioid pills to 18 different people over a six-year span without a legitimate medical purpose in exchange for cash and insurance payments.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2022
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Michigan announced today that Kaleb Franks, one of four conspirators convicted of plotting to kidnap the Governor of Michigan, was sentenced to 48 months (4 years) in federal prison, to be followed by three years of court supervision. In addition, he is required to pay a fine of $2,500.
